# Displaying multiple categories on menu select

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-multiple-categories-on-menu-select/317112>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [December 10, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-multiple-categories-on-menu-select/317112 "2010-12-10T19:39:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![irishcash33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/958977/32.png) [@irishcash33](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/irishcash33)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-multiple-categories-on-menu-select/317112/1 "2010-12-10T19:39:14Z")

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Hi,  
I have banged my head against my desk long enough. What I want to do seems easy enough, but with research, seems impossible. The reason might be that I am not a php expert.  
The ultimate goal is to have a checkbox list of categories in Wordpress. The user will check 2 or 3 categories and that will bring them to an archive page that will display the articles tagged under the categories they chose. Is this possible in php/wordpress? Right now wordpress default is to only display one category at a time.

I have found solutions to show multiple categories on a page through query\_posts. This solution is limited because I would have to say which categories are displayed in the code of the page. Also this way it shows all articles in both categories. I need it to show articles that are tagged with both categories, not either or.

Any suggestions? pointing in the right direction?

Thanks