# Why? It's very inconvenient to locate right sub-categories when posting

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-its-very-inconvenient-to-locate-right-sub-categories-when-posting/37576>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-its-very-inconvenient-to-locate-right-sub-categories-when-posting/37576 "2016-01-07T06:45:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-its-very-inconvenient-to-locate-right-sub-categories-when-posting/37576/10 "2016-01-07T15:43:08Z")

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> [@ccdw](#):
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> How would I go about doing that? For example, if I wanted to only show posts in my BMW category that had tags of say X AND Y or X OR Y.

It’s possible to filter for “topics with CategoryA AND TagA”, as described here:

> [@Filter topic with specific tag inside single category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filter-topic-with-specific-tag-inside-single-category/21916/5):
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> It seems this is possible now, to a certain extent. Example on meta: [https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/feature/docker](https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/feature/docker)[https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/dev/docker](https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/dev/docker) Here on Meta we’ve got Show a dropdown to filter a topic list by tag. turned off, which makes sense for the site in general but results in a somewhat awkward display for a (not-meant-to-be-used-here) URL like this, since you’ll have to look at the recurring category to realise that you’re filtered to not just a s…

It is not yet possible to do _combinations_ of tags though, nor is it possible to do and/or combinations. You can continue the conversation of tags filtering in the topic linked above.

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