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I think a search mechanism that allows filtering by category would be useful. For example, if I want to find a recipe for a specific food or with a specific ingredient on the cooking pages, I could limit my search to the recipe category.

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Mithical‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Also useful: including tags as required in a search

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 4 years ago

I remember writing something about this but need to track down where. We do want people to be able to search either globally (on a site) or just within a category.