Updated on September 06, 2016
This article provides the code for replacing the standard Genesis search form with a category-specific form on category archives which limits search results to Posts in current category and its sub categories.
A search widget placed in Primary Sidebar, for example, may appear like this (with some customization covered below) on most pages:
On category archive pages we are going to set it up like this:
Doing a search in the above will show search results that are only limited to the entries of the current category and its child categories.
Step 1
Add the following in child theme's functions.php:
