Title: Using form to select categories
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Using form to select categories

 *  [nl-vinyl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nl-vinyl/)
 * (@nl-vinyl)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-form-to-select-categories/)
 * I am trying to use a form to give a site visitor to get a selection of courses
   suitable to their specified options but am not sure how to implement this.
 * What I would like is someone to be able to pick some option like:
 * I am interested in: option-1, option-2, option-3
    Type of course: option-a, option-
   b, option-c
 * This should then get posts which have for example option-1 and option-b as a 
   category.
 * Can something like this be done with wordpress? In the current CMS I am using
   I can pass these to the CMS and get a list of posts that meet the categories.
   Since we want to switch to WordPress I am looking for an alternative.

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 *  [linux4me2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linux4me2/)
 * (@linux4me2)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-form-to-select-categories/#post-5069241)
 * WordPress comes with a Categories widget that allows users to select from categories
   via either a list or a dropdown. There are also a number of [category plugins](http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=category+selection)
   that you might like.
 * You can also use the permalink for the categories in a UI element that you build
   yourself if you’d rather go that route.

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