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    Can't search specific category

    My site will have 2 primary categories and I'd like to have separate search forms for each. I've tried modifying the search form to add a specific category by adding the following where "###" is the category ID I'm interested in.:

    <input type="hidden" name="cat" value="###" />

    However, this seems to have zero effect on the search results. It returns all the search matches regardless of which category it's in.

    To prove my results I confirmed that both of these queries produces exactly the same results:
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    http://www.mydomain.com/?s=honda
    http://www.mydomain.com/?s=honda&cat=autos
    Has anyone else run into this?

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    Re: Can't search specific category

    I don't believe you can just add a parameter to limit the category you are searching. Have you seen this work for other WordPress sites?

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