A few months ago I wrote a post on how to integrate Isotope with WordPress. Since then, I’ve received some requests on showing how to limit it to one category. In this tutorial I will show how to add the Isotope code and scripts to a  template, filtering the posts that belong to one category by it’s sub-categories.

You will notice that most steps are the same as with the original tutorial, but I have left them here, so people won’t have to go back and forth between articles. I’ll highlight the lines of code that differ from the first article.

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Isotope is a very powerful jQuery plugin that allows you to create sortable, filterable (I’m sure that’s a word) masonry layouts (although you can have other layouts as well). Isotope is free for personal use (a commercial license costs $25, and an organizational license $90).

In this tutorial I will show how to add the Isotope code and scripts to a  template. In my example, I will use the categories to filter a list of posts.

Update: I wrote a part 2 for this tutorial that shows how to use one category’s subcategories to filter posts.

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