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
- v1.6.4· Updated 5 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
11 releases since version 1.5.0. Updates install from the Joomla admin with a valid licence.
- RSS and Atom feed links are always built from the category route through Joomla's router, never from the current page URL, so server redirects aimed at other paths do not catch the feed link.
- When several Content Source categories are selected, the primary feed category is RSS Feed Category when set, otherwise the first selected category. Multilingual sites pass the page language into the route.
- RSS and Atom discovery links now keep the category view and id after SEF routing, so a feed still resolves when a category path is redirected and the query string is preserved.
- Restored the PHP 8.1 installer preflight check that was missing in the 1.6.2 package.
- 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.
Show 5 older releases
- 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.
- 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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