No Page Refresh
Filter Articles Instantly
- Show Joomla articles with tabs, pills or a dropdown filter. Visitors switch categories without reloading.
Module
Content Display
Smart Content Filter
AJAX-powered Joomla article filtering with beautiful, flexible content cards.
- Zero B/C pluginRuns without the B/C pluginRuns on Joomla 5 and 6 without the Behaviour - Backward Compatibility plugin, so you can keep it switched off.
- Joomla 4, 5 & 6Tested and supported on Joomla 4, 5 and 6.
- 5.0See the reviews
- v1.6.2· Updated 9 days ago
- 3.5K+downloads
- PHP 8.1+
- Instant accessReady to install right after checkout
- One-click updatesNew releases install from the Joomla administrator
- Lifetime optionPay once and keep future releases
- 30-day money-back guaranteeConditions apply, see our refund policy
Features
What can Smart Content Filter do for you?
Sixteen feature areas, one install package for Joomla 4, 5 and 6.
Tag Filters
Filter by One Tag or Many
- Show tags as a dropdown or clickable pills. Match any selected tag or require all of them.
Filter Styles
Tabs or Pills, Your Choice
- Use a classic tab bar with a highlighted active category. Or modern chip buttons.
Load More
Load More as Visitors Scroll
- Add the next set of cards with a button or automatically near the bottom.
Six Layouts
Layouts Fit for Publishers
- Choose a grid, lead story, magazine, list, masonry or scrolling strip.
Visitor Choice
Grid or List, Visitor's Choice
- Visitors switch between grid and list views. Their choice is remembered and can be shared by link.
Rich Cards
Cards Packed With Detail
- Show images, category, dates, author, tags, hits, reading time and a featured badge. Add custom fields and read more links.
Card Styling
Style Cards to Fit Your Brand
- Choose Default, Outlined, Flat or Compact cards. Fine-tune corners, borders, padding, shadows and hover lift.
Sticky Toolbar
Filters That Stay in Reach
- Filters, results count and search stay visible as visitors scroll long lists. Controls look consistent in any template.
Featured Content
Spotlight Your Best Articles
- Show all, hide featured or show only featured articles. Add a featured badge or lead with your top story.
Multiple Instances
Run Several Filters on One Page
- Each module keeps its own categories, filters and styles. Run as many as you need on one page.
Custom CSS
Add Your Own Styles
- Add CSS right in the settings without editing files. Styles apply only to that module.
Accessible
Accessible for Every Visitor
- Screen readers announce loading, errors and result counts. Tabs and buttons use proper accessible markup.
Future-Proof
Built for Modern Joomla
- A modern Joomla structure with automatic cache-busting for CSS and JavaScript.
Any Content
Perfect for Any Content Site
- Great for blogs, newsrooms, portfolios, product showcases, directories, docs and case studies.
Multilingual
One Module, Every Language
- Show only articles in the visitor's language, with no duplicate modules. Tag filters follow the page language too.
Changelog
What's new
9 releases since version 1.5.0. Updates install from the Joomla admin with a valid licence.
- Download Key support on the update site (dlid).
- Runs on Joomla 5 and 6 with the Behaviour Backward Compatibility plugins disabled
- Module helper uses the current database API
- Bug Fix: Locked defaults are enforced server-side on Ajax and ignore conflicting shareable URL parameters.
- Bug Fix: Date filtering uses SQL date ranges so totals and pagination stay correct.
- New Feature: Category Selection: Single (default) or Multiple, so visitors can combine categories like the tag filter.
- New Feature: Shareable URLs now include custom field, author, and date filters alongside category, tag, search, and sort.
- New Feature: Optional Default Filters (category, tag, and custom field values) applied on first load and on Reset.
- New Feature: Lock Default Filters hides those controls when a page should stay prefiltered.
- Compatibility: Existing sites keep Single category mode and empty defaults until you opt in.
- Bug Fix: Safe HTML card intros with Intro Text Limit no longer leave broken markup that can spill out of the card and create empty grid cells.
- Bug Fix: Empty paragraphs left after Strip Content Plugin Syntax are removed before truncation.
- Improvement: Safe HTML intros use HTML-aware truncation and are re-balanced so tags such as and links stay inside the card.
- New Feature: RSS Feed Link on Content Source adds RSS and Atom discovery links to the page head, like Integration on a Category Blog menu item.
- New Feature: Optional RSS Feed Category picks which category feed to expose when several are selected.
- New Feature: Allowed Sort Options on Filters so you can show only selected Sort choices.
- Improvement: Tag filter respects Filter by Current Language.
Show 3 older releases
- New Feature: Strip Content Plugin Syntax on Card Content (on by default) so card intros no longer show raw codes such as {loadmoduleid 186}.
- Bug Fix: Search Scope Title and intro matches words in the article intro above the Read more break.
- Bug Fix: Card images no longer disappear after Ajax on multilingual sites with a language code in the URL path.
- New Feature: Image Fit on Card Appearance: Cover or Contain.
Docs & setup
Get up and running fast
Written guides for installing and configuring Smart Content Filter, from first setup to the options that matter.
- Installation stepsOne install zip for Joomla 4, 5 and 6, installed from System, Install, Extensions.
- Configuration optionsThe settings in the guide, from first setup to the options that matter.
- Practical usage tipsShort examples you can adapt to your site.
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