Title: reverse filter behavior
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# reverse filter behavior

 *  [sylvain huguet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sylvain-huguet/)
 * (@sylvain-huguet)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-filter-behavior/)
 * Hi,
 * I would like to know where and how I could change the behavior of the filter.
   
   I’ll try to explain…
 * I would like, when I click on a category, to display this category and not hiding
   it.
 * I hope i made myself clear…
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-organiser-posterboard/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-organiser-posterboard/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Stephen Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenharris/)
 * (@stephenharris)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-filter-behavior/#post-4858207)
 * Toggling the filters is symmetric… clicking a category will show that category
   if its hidden, or hide it if its displayed. So if you reverse it you’ll end up
   with the same behaviour :).
 * However, the page loads with all categories ‘enabled’ (or the filters disabled,
   depending on how you look at it). So you could ask that the page loads with all
   categories ‘disabled’ (or all the filters enabled). But this would mean you end
   up with a blank page until some of the filters are removed.
 * If that’s what you’re after you could add some javascript to programatically ‘
   click’ the filters, but otherwise there’s no option for setting this behaviour.
 *  [physalis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/physalis/)
 * (@physalis)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-filter-behavior/#post-4858241)
 * Hi Stephen,
 * once again, via another channel. Would it be possible to have an ‘all’ option
   for the posterboard, since, as you can see, not everybody is well and familiar
   with those buttons being toggled in order to reset the filter :)?
 * Thanks in advance
 * physalis
 *  [physalis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/physalis/)
 * (@physalis)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-filter-behavior/#post-4858243)
 * And furthermore, some people just don’t want to disable each and every venue 
   in order to see the one they are looking for, especially with tons of different
   venues given. Wouldn’t a reverse button, i.e. click on the venue to only see 
   the clicked venue’s dates?
 *  [DavidIborra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidiborra/)
 * (@davidiborra)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-filter-behavior/#post-4858291)
 * Hi Stephen,
 * I know you have already answered this question before but, just for the records…
 * After few moths using the posteboard one of the most recurrent feedback is about
   the filters. Visitors expect to see events under a certain category when they
   click on the filter (ie. If I click on Pubs I want to see all pub related events)
   but they get a bit frustrated because they don’t realise what happen when they
   click on category buttons, when you explain them that those buttons actually 
   hide that category the next question is Why would I want that for? I want to 
   see what I selected. In our case to see events under one particular category 
   only you need to disable 15 other categories.
 * Would this be something that you rethink and change the filters behaviour altogether?
 * Thanks
 * David
 *  Plugin Author [Stephen Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenharris/)
 * (@stephenharris)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-filter-behavior/#post-4858292)
 * Hi David,
 * Yes, I think this will be something that changes. It breaks backwards compatibility
   so it would be 3.0.0 (and unless there are any bugs to address, it might be that
   2.0.0 jumps straight to 3.0.0).
 * There’s no timeframe for this unfortunately, it will be when I have the time.(
   The code is also on [GitHub](https://github.com/stephenharris/event-organiser-posterboard),
   and a pull-request would also be welcome ;).
 * I’d still like to support existing behaviour, but the _default_ behaviour would
   change.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-filter-behavior/#post-4858292)
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