Suggested Improvements for Query Filter Blocks

[f.hakimian]

f.hakimian

July 17, 2025 at 3:14 am

Hi Kadence team,

First off, thank you for the powerful and flexible Query Filter blocks — they’ve made building dynamic archive-style pages a lot easier. That said, I’ve identified a few areas where the filters could be significantly improved to enhance both the user experience and functionality:

1.Display and Manage Active Filters Individually
Currently, there’s only a global “Reset Filters” option. There’s no built-in way to display which filters are currently active or to allow users to remove them individually. It would be great to have a component that shows each applied filter with an option to remove them one by one.

2.AJAX Search Inside Filter Options
For filters with many options (like tags or custom taxonomies), users have to scroll through long lists. It would be much more user-friendly to include an AJAX-powered search within each filter block to quickly find and select filter options

3.Collapsible (Accordion-Style) Filter Groups Without Limiting Item Count
Right now, we can limit the number of visible items in a filter group — but sometimes we want to show all items while still allowing the entire group to be collapsed/expanded, especially when there are many filters on the page. A simple toggle to collapse a full filter group (without item limits) would make the UI much cleaner.

4.Support for Multiple Custom Field Orders in Query Order Block
It’s great that we can now sort by a custom field in the Query Order block — but why limit it to one? It would be incredibly useful to allow multiple custom field options, so users can sort by any meta key.

Thanks for considering these suggestions — I believe they’d bring a big usability boost and make the Query Filter experience even more robust.