The design of a compact wideband the letter with U‐shape shorted step‐impedance‐resonator (SIR) using low temperature cofired ceramic technology is introduced in this article. The filter is composed of the four shorted SIRs embedded in multilayer thin ceramic to produced a compact size. By introducing the proper coupling structure, the filter has sharp skirt characteristic. The filter is demonstrated with experimental results operating at central frequency 1.80 GHz with a 3‐dB bandwidth of 75.0%. More than 30 dB of suppression from 0.5 to 1.4 GHz and more than 25 dB attenuation at 3.10 GHz are obtained in the experimental results. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 59:1145–1147, 2017