Framer: Two‑Click Filtering

Until recently, a Framer designer who wanted a jobs board with role filters or a resource library with tag filters usually had three choices: hard-code it, buy a marketplace component, or fake it with page variants and manual links. Framer’s new Dynamic Filters feature moves that work into the editor itself. (framer.com) The feature lives inside a Collection List, which is Framer’s repeating block for content like blog posts, case studies, or products pulled from its content management system. Framer says you open the list, go to the Filters panel, and add controls from a new Dynamic section. (framer.com) Those controls include Search Fields, Tabs, Toggles, Dropdowns, and Checkboxes. Framer says each one connects to page variables it creates automatically, so the filter state can drive what the list shows without extra configuration. (framer.com) That is a bigger change than it sounds, because Framer already had static filters, but static filters are editor-set rules the visitor cannot change. Dynamic filters hand that choice to the person using the site, so one collection can behave more like an online store menu or an apartment search page. (framer.com, allaboutframer.com) The gap this fills was obvious in Framer’s own ecosystem before the release. Its marketplace was already full of paid filter components promising multi-filter search, tag chips, and live results because designers kept needing behavior the core product did not natively provide. (framer.com, framer.com, framer.com) Framer is pitching the new version as close to instant setup. Its update note says the controls “just work” once added, which is a direct appeal to designers who can lay out a polished directory in an afternoon but do not want to wire up custom logic for every category, keyword, or toggle. (framer.com) The likely first winners are sites with lots of repeated content: blogs with topic tabs, template libraries with format filters, course catalogs with level filters, and directories with search plus category narrowing. Third-party tutorials published within weeks of the launch are already showing multi-filter course pages and live-search blog lists built on the new system. (framer.com, youtube.com, allaboutframer.com) Framer has been pushing deeper into content-heavy websites for a while, not just landing pages. Its CMS pages now emphasize inline editing, search, collaboration, and structured collections, so native filtering fits a broader move toward making Framer usable for documentation hubs, media libraries, and larger marketing sites. (framer.com, framer.com) The practical shift is that filtering is turning from a workaround into a built-in site behavior. When a design tool starts shipping search fields, dropdown filters, and checkbox logic as native options, it is trying to keep designers inside the tool for the last 20 percent of a project instead of forcing a handoff to code. (framer.com, framer.com)