How to separate exposed filters and sort?

There is no way to accomplish this, because there is no way to split a single <form> tag across multiple blocks. You'd have to have the blocks together and the <form> could span them, but even that you'd have to do very much by hand. Sorry!

I agree it is not convenient. Sometimes convenience must be set aside for other concerns, unfortunately. In order to make it a UI flag, it would have to become a fully baked feature; if you can't use it in the UI naturally, then the existence of the flag would be very confusing. In order to use it from the UI then, we would have to have some kind of token setup. And once we do that, we might need some other set of footer tokens. This can get very complex, very fast, you see, because of the chain of expectations we create with UI elements.

This is how I did it.. Maybe not the best way, but certainly a way.. (idk if this works with the block system. I'm using views content panes)

Expose the filter in a block. Then in panels, you can display the block multiple times in any region you want. Then use CSS to hide and show the id's.

.content #edit-tid-wrapper {display:none;} \\ this will hide the taxonomy exposed filter in the content region
.sidebar-left #edit-location-wrapper {display:none;} \\ this will hide the proximity location filter in the sidebar left

Hopefully that helps.

I am trying to do something like this but just want to split the exposed filters between two separate divs. I have six filters and want two of them wrapped in one div and the other four in another div. Is this possible? Thanks.

See these issues:

#1444758: Separate exposed sort form from exposed filter block
#1337580: How to split the exposed filters to separate blocks?

Did anyone get these workarounds, such as showing the exposed form multiple times and hiding elements in it, to work with AJAX? As soon as I put the exposed form on the page a second time AJAX stops working...