Hi Montecor23,

When you are choosing the parent categories it shows all of the products that are inside of the child categories, which is logical. You can use logic “AND” and then it will work as you want to show products separately.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Thank you. And I can have a parent category filter and a subcategory filter but separate? so that if I select a parent category, the child filter appears only there. But separate, non-deployable and together. Since the “product category” filter only lets me add one in total… but maybe there is some way to achieve it and I’m not seeing it.

Hi bitfunk001,

Thank you for choosing Filter Everything PRO.

Order changing does not have anything in common with displaying the filter set on the page.

Perhaps you changed the “Where to filter” or “And what to filter” options. Please check those options and also try to check all of the things you were doing previously and what plugins you have installed.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi seuno8,

Thank you for choosing Filter Everything PRO.

Can you please explain what type of issues you are facing?

The quick start guide can be found here – https://filtereverything.pro/resources/quickstart/ in case you don’t know how to work with the plugin.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi Victor,

Thanks for getting back to me.

Can the plugin filter by custom taxonomy terms or product tags or product attributes and return filtered product categories and not the products within the product categories that match the filter criteria?

For example, given the URL I provided above, if you filter by “Entrance Matting”, it returns 2 searched results: Magnum and Magnus. These are prdduct categories and not the products.

Please see the screenshot https://prnt.sc/1DTx2Gl8EpD-

Hi seuno8

No, the plugin cannot filter categories, what you can do is create a custom page that will have custom posts with category names, and when clicking on any post it should redirect you to the needed category page, and you can filter those “category” custom posts. That’s a simple workaround to make it work.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi Victor,

Thanks for the explanation above. My thoughts were that the plugin is able to filter based on product categories. Quite disappointing for me. I guess your plugin will not work for my particular use case.

How do I request for a refund?

Best regards, Seun O.

We are not even sure if there are any plugins that can do it, as all of the filters are focused on filtering actual products. What you are looking for is absolutely another functionality, which can be written by custom coding or find any plugin out there, be we never heard about such specific ones.

But with the solution that we presented, you can achieve something close to it.

In general, a refund is possible by the appropriate form from an account where you have bought the plugin.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi Victor,

I cannot agree less with you. Do you have plans to incorporate this functionality into future releases of your plugin?

Concerning the solution you presented, is this something you can look into for me?

A request for refund was submitted yesterday using the appropriate form.

Let me what you think is the best way forward?

Best regards, Seun O.

Hi Seun

Honestly saying, you are the first person asking for such functionality. Which is not very user-friendly. Usually in 99% of cases like on this site – https://nordic-led.no/produktkategori/hjem-fritid/ people create a woocomercce product categories navigation – https://prnt.sc/uuAo8c8Y73ja

This makes sense and works in a fast way, instead of first filtering categories, then choosing any category then filtering the products on those categories.

But if you are not planning to filter products at all, then we cannot help here. Only some custom solutions will help you.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi Victor,

Season’s greetings!

It’s been a while since I was last active in this thread. I’m currently working on adapting your plugin to address the requirements I mentioned earlier.

I’m considering a new approach, where I group all the products returned from the main WP_Query on the product categories template. Subsequently, I would display specific product category details, such as the category name and thumbnail, within the loop. Essentially, the query would still retrieve all products, but the output would focus on displaying product category details rather than the actual products.

Could you guide me to the specific source file in your plugin responsible for presenting filtered product outputs on a particular product category page? I appreciate any assistance you can provide with this.

Best regards, Seun O.

Hi Seun

Our plugin doesn’t select these products from somewhere, it connects to the selection process on a specific page (no matter if it’s the main WP_Query or a custom one written somewhere in the template files or in some plugin) and makes changes to the query process according to the selected filters.

All we can advise is to use native WP hooks that allow you to access the posts selected with WP_Query.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi Victor,

Thank you for the information.

You know your plugin better than I do. Could you direct me to the specific section of your codebase where you integrated with the current WP_Query to enable the filters and narrow down results based on user selections?

I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide a straightforward demonstration illustrating how to fulfill the mentioned requirements.

Best regards, Seun O.

Hi ahmedtaha510,

Did you try to choose another query from the “And what to filter” dropdown and try if everything is working?

Best Regards,
- Victor

I have tried but still same result. Already spent 2 hours on this trying to figure out the issue. but still it’s not working.

Can you please send the credentials to the wp-admin dashboard following this document so we can check it?

Best Regards,
- Victor

I have sent the credentials. Please check.

Filter doesn’t work either in Product Archive, nor in shop page

This page – https://pmediaweb.com/dev/meatholic/product-category/australian-wagyu/ is the page of the “australian-wagyu” category and the products only have applied this category to them, so there is nothing to filter.

This page – https://pmediaweb.com/dev/meatholic/shop/ we set the filter set and everything is working well as well.

Best Regards,
- Victor

But in the category pages, I also want a filter on the left side.

so user don’t have to go to the shop page and filter Each category.

Is it not possible using this plugin?

The filter widget is filtering products that are presented, on this page – https://pmediaweb.com/dev/meatholic/product-category/australian-wagyu/ there are only presented 3 products with the same category. If you add any attributes to those products you can filter by them.

There is no option to find some other products if you are on a certain category page that is showing only 3 products. It won’t make to show all of the rest products there or return you back to the shop page.

On the shop page you have all of the products, so you can filter them by categories and other attributes that you can add.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Have a look at this example: https://pmediaweb.com/dev/lamaisonaire/products/product-category-chairs/

If you open this URL it’ll open up Products related to “Chairs” category, but from dropdown (Product Category) if you change the category. It’ll change the category & open related products with in a same page. This was accomplished using this plugin as well.

I am just looking to fetch a list of active urls (via seo filters)

Hi centrable,

Would you mind providing us with more details on the specific data you’d like to obtain? I’d be happy to assist you in any way I can.

Do you mean by “fetch a list of active URLs” is to have a list of all URLs that will trigger the SEO Rule?

Best Regards,
- Victor

That is correct. I want to create a list of active filter urls so I can then pass this to Google to Index

At this time, there is no possibility of obtaining this data. It would require writing a lot of code, and it would be quite complicated. Maybe with future updates, there will be such a possibility with built in function.

Best Regards,
- Victor

I’m just looking to get the urls, nothing more.

We understand that your request may seem simple to fulfill, but unfortunately, the data is generated dynamically, and there is no stored list in the database that can be accessed at any time. Creating a static list from dynamic data would require a significant amount of coding and effort.

For example, we have SEO Rules with color any and size any, size has 1, 2, and 3 values, and color has a, b, and c values. it would go like this:

mysite.com/1/a/
mysite.com/1/b/
mysite.com/1/c/

mysite.com/2/a/
mysite.com/2/b/
mysite.com/2/c/

mysite.com/3/a/
mysite.com/3/b/
mysite.com/3/c/

The existing rule which employs the use of “any” is just one among many. If we intend to include additional rules, particularly those that involve specific combinations, a different approach may be necessary. In order to ensure accurate data output, it is imperative to account for all variables and specific processes, while disregarding those that are not involved. This necessitates a thorough consideration of all relevant data and calculations. Only by paying close attention to these factors can one hope to achieve precision and reliability in the final results. As such, it is essential to maintain a vigilant and critical approach to data analysis, taking into account all relevant factors and ensuring that no important details are overlooked. Foreach won’t do the trick here.

Best Regards,
- Victor

May I ask, when accessing the ‘SEO Rules’ link on the backend, it shows all the currently stored urls (Title), couldn’t I just use the query that is used to display this list? that is the data I’m needing.

Basically the list (title only) generated by edit.php?post_type=filter-seo-rule

Well, you can examine those links, for example, here is one of them:

…/product-category/{any}/color-{any}/brand-{any}/ram-{any}/volume-{any}

{any} is a dynamic value that will be replaced depending on the category page you are on, and the chosen term from color/brand/ram/volume… filters. It shows only the skeleton.

Best Regards,
- Victor

I need to access this data via php though. I am just looking for the ‘title’ values of the SEO Rules.

Please send us a link to the screen of what you mean by the “title” because we are absolutely confused right now.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi gleenk,

Send the credentials to the wp-admin dashboard following this document with descriptive information, and everything set up, so we can follow your instructions and see the issue right away.

Best Regards,
- Victor

already sent the credentials.

Hi gleenk,

We have checked the site, and your pagination is simply not working, with our plugin active or not, click on any page and you will see the same results. Well, that should be fixed maybe this is the issue on the current site only like that, but it definitely needs to be fixed in order to move further.

Best Regards,
- Victor

that’s not true: https://www.viesseauto.com/automobili/page/2/ it’s working. cars are different

Here is the link to which you provided the access – https://stagingcepar.sg-host.com/nvl/explore/page/3/ pagination is not working here.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Just fixed, it was missing a paged variable. Now pagination it’s working but not with your plugin -> https://stagingcepar.sg-host.com/nvl/explore/page/3/

Hi enoversum,

Could you provide us with the link to the page where you are experiencing the issue, along with a step-by-step guide on how to reproduce it? This will help us better understand the problem and provide information on it.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi Victor, a very ugly, but practical example is this one: https://dev.boks.li/testpress/veranstaltungen/. To recreate this issue, just create a filter set with at least a text search field and one taxonomy. Set the option for ‘Empty Terms’ to ‘Hide in the initial Filter only’. Make sure to enable AJAX filtering. Then use a search term on the front page that does not exist and let the form AJAX-filter to see the ‘N/V’. If you instead pick ‘Never hide’ for ‘Empty Terms’, the greyed-out taxonomy terms still show. In my case, this is an archive for a custom post type, but I assume it works the same way for posts or pages.

It’s completely normal to see the “N/A” text when searching for something that does not exist while using the plugin. This is because “you asked” the plugin to hide filter terms with counters equal to 0. Therefore, all of the filter terms receive counters of 0 when it didn’t find anything, resulting in the “N/A” text. If you enable the “Hide empty filters” option, all empty filters will be completely hidden.

It won’t make them gray.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi Victor,

what I tried to achieve was to hide empty tax terms initially, so tax terms that have been created, but not connected to any posts won’t show, but as a user filters through, tax terms that are no longer available are still visible, but greyed out. So the user knows what terms were available, but cannot be picked due to his filtering.

If I get you right, with this setting, although valid tax terms are showing and empty ones are only hidden initially, when then using the text search field with a zero-result search term, I can’t avoid having all tax terms removed and replaced with ‘N/V’ (whatever that should mean)?

From the logic of the ‘Empty Terms’ settings, I would have assumed tax terms are only hidden when I access the archive with nothing filtered, hence your naming ‘initial filter’. It turns out that also applies to search results from the text search field. That doesn’t really make sense to me. Would you consider changing this logic, or providing a setting that allows to really only hide empty tax terms initially, i.e. when loading the archive page with no filtering active? As it stands, I can’t even hide or replace the ‘N/V’, as there is no class added to those N/V list elements, just the text.

All the best

Eno

First and foremost, it is important to note that the correct abbreviation for “not available” is N/A, not N/V. It is imperative to use the appropriate terminology in a professional setting to avoid any confusion or misinterpretation of information. Therefore, it is recommended to use N/A as the standard abbreviation for indicating unavailability in business or academic contexts. Long story short, you see the N/A abbreviation when there are no available filter terms with the search line.

This option is working hiding all of the terms dynamically, so of course you won’t see anything, it would require another layer of logig to do so. Which we maybe can add with future updates.

The N/A can be changed from the code, or with the loco translate plugin if you are using it in a other language than English. Also, it can be redefined by the function.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hey Victor,

I can clear up the confusion with ‘N/V’. For whatever reason, in your own translation files, ‘N/A’ has been translated to ‘N/V’ for German. That’s not a correct abbreviation, it would be ‘n.v.’ (nicht verfügbar) instead. Coming from an academic, and linguistic background, this is also important to me. So the ‘N/V’ came from your translation files.

I understand WHY the terms disappear, because it is programmed this way . I wanted to point out that it would make more sense if ‘Hide in the INITIAL filter only’ (as in, when the filter set is loading and nothing is filtered) has been set as an option to still show (the unavailable) tax terms AFTER filtering by keyword. This is what I don’t find logical.

I have no trouble translating your plugin strings, it’s just that I can’t style, hide or replace the list element with the ‘N/A’ inside since it has no distinctive class. I thought about doing a workaround, but having a simple string of text saying ‘N/A’ in a list element makes it rather hard. And I’d rather not change code in your plugin (even though I know where it is).

I’d be happy as a frog in a pond if you could add this kind of functionality (showing unavailable tax terms after filtering by keyword, when choosing ‘Hide in the initial filter only’ as my option for ‘Hide Terms’) to your plugin. It would really make more sense.

All the best, and thanks for your insights and help

Eno

Oh, we understand now. We had initially assumed that you were using the English version, which caused confusion about the N/V rather than N/A. Thank you for pointing this out.

We may consider implementing a similar feature in future updates.

A bit later, we should provide instructions on modifying and adding a class to this element so that you can style it as required.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi norainu87,

So in other words, this is just a simple radio button with an image instead of the checker. You can create something like the brands in here – https://demo.filtereverything.pro/product-category/electronics/laptops/ this is a color swatch feature. And change the styles a bit so you will have the same filter looks with images only.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi Victor – thanks so much. I’m taking steps toward doing this. For some reason only 1 of the radio buttons is appearing: www.equitybound.com/stocks (I have several in ACF fields but only one of them shows – not the first one, just a random one). 1) Any sense on how I can change this to get the rest to appear? 2) Also, is 5 columns the maximum or is there any way I can create more? 3) Is there a way to apply left and right scrolling style to the radio buttons similar to the airbnb link I shared? Thanks always for the guidance and support.

Hi norainu87,

Can you please send the credentials to the wp-admin dashboard following this document so we can check it?

Also, provide the link to the page where you want to place the filter set, so the posts there will have all of the data. Because we are not sure what should it filter on the provided page.

Best Regards,
- Victor

So, I’ve learned more about the problem: I can only select ‘1 single’ radio button in both ACF—> FilterEverything. For the airbnb categorization style to work – I’ll need to be able to select ‘multiple’ buttons. E.g.: One house might be a ‘Tiny house’. It might also be an ‘Amazing Views.’ Any way to do this? Thank you always for your great help.

Or if there is another way to accomplish these filterable categories/links, please let me know. Thank you.

If you want to select a couple of options you can simply choose checkboxes.

But we are still not very sure how you want to make it look at the end. Because the showcase you showed us was a simple long list with radio buttons with images, and you could choose one from them.

If you can somehow present the end result of this as you see it, we might be able to provide more effective assistance in this regard.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Hi Victor – these clickable icon links are exactly what I’m trying to accomplish: (Categories of types at top)... Can I do that with checkboxes? I did not think checkboxes become clickable links that allow categorization as radios do… https://www.airbnb.com/?search_mode=flex_destinations_search&category_tag=Tag%3A5348

Hi peacecity,

Thank you for choosing Filter Everything PRO.

In the “Where to filter” Choose a specific page instead of Any page also choose the correct query in the “And what to filter?” hit update and check the workability.

Best Regards,
- Victor

Thanks Victor, how and where do I create a post query?