Ability to filter categories in search

[niklas152]

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• I've used the search and this has not been discussed before.

Description

At the moment, the search only allows to positively filter by categories (i.e., category_{is,contains,starts,ends}.
I would like to be able to negatively filter for categories as well, such as category_is_not, similiar as it already works for tags.

Solution

Add filter like 'category_is_not' which works similiar / the same as the already existing 'tag_is_not'.

What are alternatives?

Manually list all categories you expect to be in your search with 'category_is' except the ones you do not want - so not really feasible once you have many categories.

Additional context

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[JC5]

There will not be extra filters at this time, but I'll keep this ticket and see if I can make an inverse button. Somebody suggested it before, and at the time I didn't want to do it. But either all filters have a "does not do X", or none have it. The current inconsistency isn't useful.

[niklas152]

Alright, an inverse button sounds like a good solution. Thank you!

[JC5]

Will be in 5.8.0

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