Filters

Several Wire settings take the same short filter string. It answers two questions at once: which items to show, and in what order.

Setting	Controls	Default
`section_tags_filter`	The tag carousel under the homepage cover	`popular:5`
`section_tag_posts_filter`	The tag posts section and its pills	`popular:2`
`section_authors_filter`	The authors carousel on the homepage	`popular:6`
`page_tags_filter`	The Tags page	`popular`
`page_authors_filter`	The Authors page	`popular`

All of them live in ⛭ Settings → Design → Customize → Theme.

Value	Result
`popular`	Most posts first. For tags and authors this counts published posts, not page views
`a-z`	Alphabetical by name
`z-a`	Reverse alphabetical
`recent`	Newest first, by the date the tag or author was created
`popular:6`	Any of the above with a limit — here, the six with the most posts
`reviews,interviews,gear`	Exactly these items, in the order you list their slugs
(empty)	Hides the section completely

The limit accepts up to three digits, so popular:100 is valid.

Show the eight busiest tags in the homepage carousel:

popular:8

Pin three sections in a fixed order, ignoring how many posts they have:

reviews,interviews,scenes

List every author alphabetically on the Authors page:

a-z

Hide the homepage authors carousel:

Slugs, not names: use field-recording, not Field Recording.
A tag or author with no published posts is skipped, so a filter can return fewer items than the limit.
Tag filters always leave out editions — any tag whose slug starts with issue-. They have their own home on the Issues page. See Issues.
An unknown slug in a comma list is ignored rather than breaking the section.

Where filters are used#