Filters! Please Do Not Deprecate Granular Filtering!!

  • Hi ??,
    I really enjoy PostX Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks (super great plugin, you do great work!)

    I’m super concerned over the new updates which place ‘Filters’ into a ‘Deprecated Category’.

    Here’s why I, as a user, am worried…

    The ‘old’ Ajax filters are super precise (and amazing!), enabling me as a site admin to provide only the categories I wish for users to see as they interact with a specific page’s post grid. The ‘new’ Ajax filters display every post category along with every post tag used throughout the website – there’s no granular control, the precision of the old (preferred, by me) filtering is gone.

    The filtering system which you are planning to deprecate is (and I cannot stress this enough from my personal point of view…) the sole reason I installed PostX – I came for the original ajax filter, because it is a thing of beauty and simplicity. Please ?? do not get rid of it.

    I’m not asking you to stop development on your vision for an alternate filtering system; I am pleading with you to not eliminate the ability for site admins to display only the filtering options each of us wish to display contextually.

    The ‘old’ system is really great for creating two pages with two separate post grids, each of them filterable by their own unique categories or tags – it’s wonderful (and the user experience is elegant and beautiful in its simplicity!)

    I’m certain the ‘new’ system has really nice benefits, but the display of every post tag and every post category ‘casts far too wide of a net’, it dilutes filtering efficacy by hiding relevant filter items among far too many taxonomy-entries which may be necessary for sitewide organization but which may have nothing to do with the content on the specific page the user is currently looking at (the user experience of square boxes isn’t as conducive as the old system for many applications, either).

    I’m super appreciative of your ongoing work and the dedicated effort you are putting into PostX Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks; thank you for all that you are doing. This message comes from a place of worry – I searched long and hard, high and low for an Ajax filtering solution before I discovered PostX. When I installed PostX for the first time, it was exactly what I was searching for and it melted so much stress away – I really don’t want to have to search for a replacement, PostX is so good. I don’t want to have to search again, searching is such a big time investment.

    Thank you for considering this request ??.

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  • Thank you for reaching out. I appreciate your interest in our filtering options. I’m pleased to inform you that the latest advanced filter will include the ability to set specific categories in the dropdown too. This enhancement has already been scheduled and will be included in a future update.

    You can still do the same with the advance filter option for inline view. select the category dropdown.

    Filter Style > Inline , set your preferred filter values to show. image for reference

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