{"id":19028834,"date":"2026-09-25T00:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/suggestion-search-include-categories\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:07:19","slug":"suggestion-search-include-categories","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/suggestion-search-include-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggestion: Search *Include* Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello!  So happy to see this fork! The customizable search results pages are so great.  However, the search only works to exclude categories not include and we have like 40 categories so to search in 1 means excluding 39 and it is a real pain to set up. If I add a new category I have to edit all my search forms everywhere across my site to exclude it. Also, the url of the search results is so long listing all excluded categories I don&#8217;t need people to see.So my suggestion for improvement is to add an include category option for the searches. Plus for some reason, the Restrictions &amp; Filters part takes up to minute to open and I have to click wait over and over.   I have screenshots if you&#8217;d like any.  So glad you are saving this plugin \ud83d\ude42 Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19028834","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-features-request"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19028834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19028834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19028834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}