# Allow searching in multiple categories at once

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-searching-in-multiple-categories-at-once/163850>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** search\
**Created:** [September 12, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-searching-in-multiple-categories-at-once/163850 "2020-09-12T19:16:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![justin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/justin/32/157614_2.png) [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-searching-in-multiple-categories-at-once/163850/3 "2020-09-21T14:57:25Z")

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I don’t believe you can restrict search to only two categories site-wide, and it currently appears you cannot search in any more than one defined category at a time.

Can you explain the use case for using something like this?

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