by
Jonathan de Jong
4.9 (68 reviews)
Beautiful taxonomy filters
Supercharge your custom post type archives by letting visitors filter posts by their terms/categories. This plugin handles the whole thing for you!
Beautiful taxonomy filters ranks #4,397 among WordPress.org plugins with 2,000+ active installations, is #693 of 8,538 in the Customization category, a 4.9/5 rating from 68 reviews, and was last updated Sep 8, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1
v2.6.0
Current Version v2.6.0
Updated 1 week ago
Last Update on 08 Sep, 2026
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- Version
- 2.6.0
- Last Updated
- Sep 08, 2026
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- 4.3.0+
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TL;DR
AI summary of the plugin's readmeThis plugin is for owners of WordPress sites with custom post type archives who want visitors to filter content by taxonomy terms. It solves the problem of ugly filter URLs and clunky JavaScript-based filtering by providing automatic, pretty permalink-based taxonomy filtering that works without JavaScript.
- Filter posts by taxonomy terms
- Beautified pretty filter URLs
- Conditional dropdowns via AJAX
- Polylang compatible
- Multisite compatible
- Widget and shortcode placement options
- Multiple dropdown styles
- Custom GET parameter support
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Beautiful taxonomy filters
It does change - you just can't see it. The live preview runs a whole WordPress inside your browser using WordPress Playground, and the address bar drawn above it is a mockup that doesn't follow where you are inside the site. So when you pick a couple of filters, the preview shows you the filtered results, but not the pretty URL that produced them. Behind that mockup the URL really has become something like /recipes/cuisine/thai/diet/vegan/ rather than /recipes/?cuisine=thai&diet=vegan. Since those clean, linkable, bookmarkable URLs are the main thing this plugin does, it's worth installing it on a real site to see that part properly.
Yes. Either use the widget and set a specific post type in it's settings or add a parameter of your custom post type slug to the show_beautiful_filters action. This "hardcodes" the filter module to that post type and lets you use it pretty much anywhere in your theme. Hardcore right.. <?php do_action( 'show_beautiful_filters', 'posttypeslug' ); ?>
Well of course! You can either change the order in which you register your taxonomies OR you can use the filter function moveElement( &$array, $a, $b ) { $out = array_splice($array, $a, 1); array_splice($array, $b, 0, $out); } function custom_tax_ordering( $taxonomies, $current_post_type ) { moveElement( $taxonomies, 2, 0 ); return $taxonomies; } add_filter( 'beautiful_filters_taxonomy_order', 'custom_tax_ordering' );
No. In a future release we will look into if it’s possible to support this AND having beautiful permalinks. If that doesn’t work we will likely add an option where you can opt out of beautiful permalinks and enjoy the power of multiple terms filtering instead. My taxonomy isn’t showing in the filter / the filters are too small A Taxonomy will not appear in the filter until at least one post has been connected to one of the terms. Just start tagging up your posts and you’ll see it shows up! Also, make sure that your custom post type has an archive (in the arguments for the custom post type) since this plugin uses the builtin WordPress functionality for archives.
Posts are not supported because we haven't been able to create proper rewrite rules for the multiple filtering to work. Posts are handled differently by WordPress than other custom post types (you have probably noticed that there's no /posts/ in the permalink for example). Due to this the same rewrite rules that works for custom post types doesn't work for posts. If you're just looking to filter your posts by their categories with a dropdown you can use this function wp_dropdown_categories. It's good practice to use a custom post type when you're not going to use it as news/blog -posts so perhaps you should create a Custom post type instead and make use of this beautiful plugin! The filter isn't working with my taxonomies using a rewrite slug Since v 2.2 this has been fixed. Make sure you keep BTF updated In order for the rewrite rules to work with a taxonomy that has a rewrite slug you also have to add the same slug to the query_var parameter of register_taxonomy. It wont have any visible impact for you but it's what's needed for the filtered urls to work! My taxonomy rewrite slug is nested under my post type slug If you register a taxonomy with a rewrite slug like horses/locations on a post type that's archived at horses, Beautiful Taxonomy Filters will only use the locations part when building the filtered URL, since the horses part is already in the post type archive URL. Before 2.5.0 the slug ended up in the URL twice (/horses/horses/locations/spain/). Those old URLs still resolve, but new ones won't have the duplicate. If you want the old behaviour back, return the untouched slug from the beautiful_filters_taxonomy_rewrite_slug filter.
It is 100% compatible with Polylang. WPML is a bit wonky but might work depending on your setup. In order for this to work properly you should set the post types and all connected taxonomies to be translatable. The filtered urls will still work even if you don't set the post type to be translatable but when switching language Polylang still think it should add the new language to the URL which means it'll throw a 404 error. This is to be expected and NOT due to this plugin. If you experience 404 errors make sure you flush your rewrite rules by going to settings > permalinks in the admin dashboard.
You will be able to use this plugin with any public registered custom post type regardless if it's been created by yourself or a plugin. However the displaying of the CPT must be via it's archive template. That means that a plugin that uses shortcodes to display the entire post listing on a static page will not work out of the box. It will also not work out of the box with plugins that in some way alter the permalink to the CPT archive WPMU Devs Events+ for example. But I'm using Events+ and I really want this! See here for more info I really love this plugin and I want to donate a little something-something
