Title: Filtering Posts Last modified: July 5, 2020 --- # Filtering Posts * [matta087](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matta087/) * (@matta087) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filtering-posts-6/) * I apologize in advance for having low WordPress technical abilities. The features I may be referring to could be an existing stock WP function and please help me find it if that’s the case. * I actually have two questions about my WP category view page. What I’m trying to do is be able to organize one category with about 150 posts and allow my users to easily search through these 150 posts by narrowing down through a search bar if they want to be specific or through filters if they want a bunch of results. * An analogy I would like to use is a clothing store (although my site will not be built for selling). In clothing store websites you can filter clothes by color, size, material and even brand so that only matching results appear. You can be very specific and choose blue, large, cotton, Levi’s brand and get few results or you can go for two filters such as blue and Levi’s only to get more results. * My question is.. * 1. I was wondering if there is a way to do a search filter for a specific category ONLY so that my users can simply tick boxes to filter down the posts similar to my example above? Maybe an ajax type of functionality too so that the search results get narrowed down in real time as they tick those filters. * 2. How do you change the category page so that it shows the posts as featured image and title only instead of showing a preview of the post content? So far my category page looks like this [https://www.ragnarokorigin.net/category/monsters/](https://www.ragnarokorigin.net/category/monsters/) and I want to change it to grid view just like the latest posts block feature in the gutenberg editor. * Really appreciate your help. My head has been spinning trying to figure this out for the last 8 hours. - This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by [matta087](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matta087/). Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/) * (@joyously) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filtering-posts-6/#post-13073916) * Since you wrote your second question as a separate topic [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-page-to-grid-view/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-page-to-grid-view/) I will leave that out of this topic. * There are many plugins to change the [search](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/search/). Some could include the feature to limit to a category, but you might remember that there is already a category archive, so you can apply your concept of filtering to whichever page they start on or just the search. There are plugins for [filtering](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/filter/) and [faceted search](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/facet/). A lot of them are for products. I’m not sure if they work for regular posts. * [Tim Burkart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigmoxy/) * (@bigmoxy) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filtering-posts-6/#post-13074439) * I use the paid version of this plugin however the free version may be worth looking into – [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-search-lite/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-search-lite/) - This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by [Tim Burkart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigmoxy/). Reason: correction * [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/) * (@joyously) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filtering-posts-6/#post-13074510) * [@bigmoxy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigmoxy/) Didn’t you already suggest that to this OP on a different topic? * [Tim Burkart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigmoxy/) * (@bigmoxy) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filtering-posts-6/#post-13074514) * [@joyously](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/) Yes I have recommended that plugin before. I don’t recall the post though. Could you please tell me what OP stands for? I’m sorry I’m not familiar with the abbreviation. * Thread Starter [matta087](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matta087/) * (@matta087) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filtering-posts-6/#post-13074532) * [@bigmoxy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigmoxy/) I think OP means Original Poster if I am not mistaken. * I checked Search & Filter plugin but the problem is I don’t think the product is getting responses on their search forum. - This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by [matta087](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matta087/). - This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by [matta087](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matta087/). Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Filtering Posts’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 5 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [matta087](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matta087/) * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filtering-posts-6/#post-13074532) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics