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WordPress has included native support for intersections since (I think) version 2.3. Unfortunately, however, robust post retrieval support is only available for tags (eg. tag=A,B retrieves the union of “A” and “B”; tag=A+B retrieves the intersection of “A” and “B”).

Categories still require a hack, and the old plugins for this of course now no longer work.

To get intersection working, try adding the following line before the loop:

<?php <span style="color: #ff0000;">if ($_GET['cat']) query_posts(array('category__and'=>preg_split('/[\s,]+/',$_GET['cat'])));</span> ?>
<?php while( have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

This applies an intersection to any list of categories separated by space, comma, or “plus” signs in the request.

See Ryan Boren’s post on WordPress intersection and union taxonomies for details on the various forms of post retrieval queries now available.

Tags: categories, taxonomy, WordPress

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