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Is it possible to have a URL that contains more than one category to retrieve posts from those particular categories?

eg: /blog/category/news+design/

where ‘news’ is one category and ‘design’ is another, and the plus symbol is the separator??

I really hope there is a way to do this…

Cheers.

It won’t be recognized as a category title that way automatically.  In order to pass extra categories (i.e., more than one at a time) you’ll need to get creative.  I’ve done it a few ways- prefer to use cat ids, as they’re easier to work with.  But no reason you can’t work around it with cat names.

But it is custom coding- so I’m going to shift this to ‘How to’ and throw out a few ideas.

Pass the extra cat(s) as additional segments.  Turn dynamic off, grab all cats, query to find their ids (main reason I prefer ids- no need for this step)- then echo those out (php parsed on input) in the category parameter of your weblog tag.  Or- leave them in one seg- seperate with +, explode on the plus, do your query- echo the resulting ids.

So- no standard way to do it, but folks have worked around it in various ways.