Wordpress: using jQuery to show/hide categories across pages
I am a seasoned HTML/CSS web designer who is only beginning to dabble in Javascript. I just started using jQuery yesterday and so far I love it, but I still have a lot to learn.
Anyway - what I am trying to do is set up Wordpress to dynamically show/hide posts based on category. There will be links at the top for the user to select the type of posts they want to see, and the rest will disappear.
I'm using WP Framework to get semantic classes, so it wasn't hard to figure out how to accomplish that by using slideDown and slideUp on the elements with the category class I want to show. However, I want to keep this filter across pages as they browse using the "Older Entries" or "Previous Page" navigation links at the bottom.
What I need to do is pass the variable to the next page and then write some extra onLoad code to take the variable and apply the selected filter automatically to new pages. But I don't know how. I am thinking I should use anchors to store the filter name in the URL, but I am not sure how to get the "Older Entries" link to dynamically update when one of the filter links at the top is clicked.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?