Ethos Filter for all episodes

[jayclouse]

Hey guys,

I am trying to have my “posts” page be both exhaustive and filterable. This post helped a ton and gave me a workaround for displaying “All” episodes by default by making a category and hiding the default “All” link…but now I have a new snag.

This page, which defaults to the “All” category and has a filter, does not paginate or show by default how to scroll through the old Posts.

Two ways that I think a solution can be found:

1. This “All” page is great, because it paginates all episodes. But, it loses the filter/index. If I could keep the filter on category pages, problem would be solved.

OR

2. If I could paginate the page I have here, that would be great too. I really don’t like the “See all [category] posts” button at the bottom of pages, I’d prefer pagination.

Any help would be much appreciated.

For now, I have increased the maximum posts on the blog page to a number larger than total posts, so that they all display for a continuous scroll.

[ruenel]

Hello @jayclouse,

Thanks for writing in!

This page here: is your blog index and you have enabled the Filterable index which is why the filters appeared. The drawback of using filters is that you will loose the pagination ability of the blog index.

And this other page here: is the category archive page that display all the episodes. The Filterable index is only applied and available for the blog index. It will not display in the category pages.

You will have to select for the filterable index or a paginated blog index.

Hope this explains it briefly.

[jayclouse]

Thanks, @RueNel,

It does explain it, and I’ve gathered that from looking around the forum, it’s just not clear to me why this tradeoff exists. I hope you guys will consider it for product upgrades! It doesn’t seem like filtering vs. pagination should be an either/or without a good work around.

[rad]

Noted that! But it seems not possible as of this moment since the category should be filtered by its category only. And pagination is only applicable for global query where query_vars is connected, while filterable feature is a custom query.