A maintenance review before adding a WordPress filter plugin
Check ownership, update practice, data model, removal cost, and fallback behavior.
INDEPENDENT UI FIELD NOTESFilters should
Filters should
explain themselves.
Design and maintenance notes for portfolio filters that remain clear with a keyboard, a narrow screen, an empty result, or a broken script.
Run the control review →RESULT SET / 06
Lab notes
About Filter Interface Lab
The scope and identity of this independent publication.
Accessible filter controls: a six-state review
Test focus, selection, result count, empty state, reset, and shared URLs.
Design categories before filter buttons
A filter cannot repair categories that overlap or mean different things to different editors.
Historical authorship and plugin identity notice
Why this publication does not reproduce a former author profile or imply current support.
Local privacy note
Contact storage and basic server logs.