Search & Filter Pro (by Designs & Code)

Search & Filtering for posts, products and custom posts. Allow your users to Search & Filter by categories, tags, taxonomies, custom fields, post meta, post dates, post types and authors.

Search & Filter is a simple search and filtering plugin for WordPress.  It is essentially an advancement of the WordPress search box, adding taxonomy filters & post filters to really refine your searches. You can search by Category, Tag, Custom Taxonomy, Post Type, Post Date or any combination of these easily - you can even remove the search box and simply use it as a filtering system for your posts and pages. Search by custom fields, post meta, taxonomies, tags, categories, authors, post types, post dates and more - The Ultimate WordPress Filter Plugin with Ajax! It allows you to Search & Filter your posts / custom posts / products by any number of parameters allowing your users to easily find what they are looking for on your site, whether it be a blog post, a product in an online shop and more.

WordPress meta data and taxonomy filters

Users can filter by Categories, Tags, Taxonomies, Custom Fields, Post Meta, Post Dates, Post Types and Authors, or any combination of these easily. Use for blogs, reviews sites, news sites, property sites and more. Great for searching in your online shop, tested with: WooCommerce (+product attributes),  WP eCommerce  and Easy Digital Downloads.

Features List

1. Create forms to search your posts, products, or any other custom post types in your site
2. Add WordPress meta data and taxonomy filters to your site
3. Drag and drop interface - makes building and editing forms so much easier
4. Use AJAX  to display results! No page refreshes. Also power your pagination with Ajax
5. Auto Count / Dynamic Count - dynamically update the count values in the search forms as a user is searching to reflect the correct number of terms for the current search.
6. Modifies the main query, so displaying your results is easy
7. Create as many different search forms as you like, and as many results pages as you like
8. Display anywhere in your pages or themes using widgets or shortcodes
9. Include or exclude tags, categories and taxonomies from your search results
10. Available Fields:
    • Search
      • add a search input field to your forms to allow users to enter text - uses the same functionality as you current search box - this may be the default search behaviour or enhanced behaviour from other plugins such as  Relevanssi
      • Live Update - with Ajax enabled, your search results will auto update whilst typing
    • Tag,  Category, Taxonomy - allow users to filter by any combination of these
      • input types:  dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes, multiselects,  single or multiselect comboboxes
      • options: hierarchical, hide empty terms, display count, exclude terms by ID
      • order terms by: ID, name, slug, count, term group
      • search logic: all terms must be included (AND), or any of the terms must be included (OR)
    • Post Type
      • input types:  dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes, multiselects,  single or multiselect comboboxes
    • Post Date
      • input types: single date, date range
      • jQuery Date Picker
      • Choose if the picker has a dropdown for months/years
      • Date display formats: €œdd/mm/yyyy €, €œmm/dd/yyyy € and €œyyyy/mm/dd €
    • Post Meta - allow users to search custom fields/meta data
      •  allow users to select between number ranges, date picker  and choice fields
      • input types:
        • number:  range slider, range number, range radio buttons
        • choice:  dropdown, radio, checkbox, multiselects, single or multiselect comboboxes
        • date: jQuery date picker, single date or two two date pickers to select a date range - supports dates saved in the database in the format YYYYMMDD or as a timestamp
    • Author
      • input types:  dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes, multiselects,  single or multiselect comboboxes
      • options: hide authors with no posts, display count, exclude  admins, use full names
      • order authors  by: ID, name, email, url, registred date, login, post count
    • Sort Order  - a field to allow users to sort results by various parameters including meta data
      • Options:  sort results by ID, author, title, name, date, date modified, parent ID, random, comment count and menu order
      • Meta Data: this can include by popularity, price, or anything else you use your meta fields for as numerically or you can sort your meta data alphabetically.
      • Choose whether sorting is  ASC or DESC - both are optional.
      • Custom labels for all options - completely customise text that is displayed in the dropdown
11. Frontend UI elements - jQuery date picker, range sliders and comboboxes.
12. Use custom templates for your search results.
13. I18n ready - translations are planned
14. Works with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin - allows you to search with dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons and multiselect even where the meta value is serialized.  Essentially, if you are using any of the Basic fields (not text area)  or Choice fields then you can filter these  in Search & Filter Pro.  Date Picker is now also supported provided the date is stored as €œyymmdd € as the save option with ACF.
15. Integrated with WooCommerce - use directly on your shop page, search Product Attributes and  Meta across  regular products and product variations
16. Works with WP eCommerce
17. Works with Easy Digital Downloads
18. Works with WPML