Filter Everything — WordPress/WooCommerce Product Filter

Filter Everything PRO is a new professional WordPress/WooCommerce Product Filter that allows you to build powerful faceted filtering system for your site.

What the Best filter plugin should be able to do?

• to filter by any possible criteria
• to filter any Post types (products, posts, cars, houses, recipes etc)
• support any kind of filter views (checkboxes, radio buttons, labels list, dropdowns, range)
• to be ready for use on mobile devices
• to work fast
• support AJAX
• and to be compatible with WordPress themes and popular plugins (ACF, WPML etc)

All of this is supported by Filter Everything PRO!

Moreover it also:

• filters on any pages including created with Page builders
• allows you to sort filtered results by any criteria
• allows you to get Search Engine traffic automatically on filtering result pages
• supports pretty URLs like /color-blue/brand-apple/
• supports smart filtering by Woo product variations
• works in “Apply button” and “Autosubmit” modes
• ... and others — see full key features list below.

Watch video review from WPTuts

Filter Everything — Best WooCommerce Filter Plugin? Review of the free limited version available on WordPress.org

Websites that already use Filter Everything PRO

1. Demo Filter Everything
2. Musical instrument shop
3. Custom post type filter
4. Big lamp store (6K products)
5. auslandsjob.de (horizontal view)
6. Jewelry shop1
7. maxx.discount
8. Sunglasses Shop
9. www.betternights.nl
10. BeweegWijzerWoerden.nl
11. Motorcycle accessories shop
12. Customization example
13. Your site?

KEY FEATURES

✔ Filters Any WordPress Post type

WooCommerce products, posts, recipes (but not WP Recipe maker yet), cars, real estate objects and so on.

✔ Can be placed on Any WordPress Page

Includnig singular pages created with Page builders like Elementor, Divi builder, Themify, WPBakery, Visual Composer, Oxygen builder, Beaver builder etc

✔ Supports custom WP Queries

You can filter posts related with Any WP Query on a page. Including custom WordPress loops placed directly in theme files.

✔ Filters by Any WordPress parameters

Well for example:

• Price, Sale price or any numeric value from Custom Fields.
• Product rating
• Product Category, Tag or Any custom Product Taxonomy 
• Any product Attribute: size, color, length, width, weight etc
• All Product statuses: On Sale, In Stock, Downloadable, Backordered, Featured etc
• Product Type: Variable, Simple, Grouped, External
• Shipping class
• Product Visibility
• Product Brand
• Author
• Any custom WordPress Taxonomy
• Featured image (exists/not exists)
• Product/Post Views count
• Cooking time
• Calories
• ...
• Anything you can imagine and put into Taxonomy or Custom Field in WordPress.

✔ Compatible with Page Builders

Tested with Elementor, Divi builder, Themify builder, WP Bakery composer, Oxygen builder, Beaver builder, JetEngine and others

✔ Clean, pretty URLs and Permalinks

For filtering results pages. This allow index them by Search Engines, share, bookmark or so

✔ Filters WooCommerce products + Smart filtering by variatons

✔ Separate Sorting dropdown with unlimited sorting options

✔ Step by Step filtering

Allows you to load specific Filter terms in dependency from selection of another Filter

✔ Arbitrary filters order in URL

E.g. /color-blue/size-large/ or /size-large/color-blue/

✔ Individual Filters Sets for pages or archives

Allows you to create specific filters for different Categories, Tags or any other pages. Thus, you can filter products or posts by relevant parameters only.

✔ Supports filtering values in any languages

Among them Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi etc

✔ Make specific filtering pages available for indexing.

By Search Engines and get more visitors to your site by “chunky middle” and “long-tail” keywords.

✔ Individual SEO titles, H1 titles and Meta descriptions

For filtering pages

✔ SEO Rules

That allow you to automatically generate H1 title, SEO title and Meta description for filtering pages.

✔ Compatible with any theme design

Just select the filter’s primary color.

Horizontal or Vertical layout.

With ability to set from 2 to 5 columns

Color Swatches and Brand logos

Use images and colors to make filtering more visual.

Smart Scroll

Automatic scrolling to the top of the page, if all found products fit on a single page.

Filters search results

Refine you WordPress search with the Filter Everything plugin

Compatible with caching plugins

COMPATIBLE WITH POPULAR PLUGINS

• Tested with page builders: Elementor, Divi theme and builder, Themify builder, WPBakery, Visual Composer, Oxygen builder. Should be compatible with all other page builders.
• Tested and compatible with WPML plugin.
• Tested with SEO plugins: Yoast SEO, All in One SEO, Rank Math SEO, The SEO Framework, SEOPress and Squirrly SEO.

OPTIONS LIST

Filter options

• Filtering criteria
• Filter label
• URL prefix for filter
• Meta key (for filters by Custom Field)
• View [Checkboxes|Radio buttons|Labels list|Dropdown|Range]
• Filter logic [AND|OR]
• Sort terms by
• Include/Exclude terms
• Folding [Enabled|Disabled]
• Use for Variations
• Show Hierarchy (for hierarchical taxonomies)
• Search field (to search among terms)
• Parent filter
• Hide until Parent selected
• Enable range slider? [Enabled|Disabled]
• Slider Step (numeric value)
• Tooltip
• More/Less [Enabled|Disabled]
• Show selected [Enabled|Disabled]

Filter Set options

• Where to filter? (Location – any page, where the Filter Set should work)
• What to filter? (WP Query that should be filtered)
• Empty terms
• Show count
• Hide empty Filters
• Individual CSS ID or Class of Posts Container
• «Apply Button» mode
• Apply button label
• Reset button label
• Alternative Location (redirect to results from another page)
• Priority – for pages with two or more Filter Sets

SEO Rules options

• Post type
• Filters combination (Archive page + Filters)
• SEO title
• Meta description
• H1 Title
• SEO Description (SEO text for specific filtering page)

Settings (most important)

• URL prefixes – order and values
• Indexed Filters
• Mobile devices settings
• AJAX settings
• Color scheme
• Use Color Swatches
• Smart scroll
• Layout and behavior customizations

Translation/Localization

There is *.pot file inside the plugin that allows you to translate it in any language. You can do it with Loco translate plugin or with Poedit desktop software. Currently it has full translation in Ukrainian and Czech (thanks to Tomáš Kapler ). Russian translation was removed from the plugin because of russia’s aggressive war in Ukraine.

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) support

Field types supported and tested for the moment. See example

• Checkbox
• Radio
• Select
• Number
• True/False

INSTALLATION AND CREATING FILTERS

Please watch this video to understand how to install the plugin and create the first filters.

You can find more information in the documentation

PLUGIN MISSION

The main goal of developing the Filter Everything plugin was to create a professional and ultimate filtering tool for WordPress, which would satisfy the requirements of both – site visitors and site administrators as well as SEO specialists.

That is why when developing the plugin, I researched and took into account the experience of the most popular online stores in the world and implemented it in WordPress. We also talked a lot with the SEO specialists during entire process.

DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR FEBRUARY 2023

1. XML sitemap for indexed filtering result pages IN PROGRESS
2. Minor improvements

NEW IN THE LAST UPDATE v1.7.5 from 03 February 2023

1. Added checkbox “Horizontal layout” for the Filters widget and option with columns number
2. Improved compatibility with PHP > 8.0
3. Small fixes and improvements

CHANGELOG

    = 1.7.5 =
    *Release Date - 03 February 2023*
    * Tweak - Added columns parameter to the  shortcode
    * Fix   - Fixed notice about Undefined array key "cols_count" 

    = 1.7.4 =
    *Release Date - 31 January 2023*
    * Dev   - Added checkbox "Horizontal layout" for the Filters widget and option with columns number
    * Tweak - Improved compatibility with PHP > 8.0
    * Fix   - Fixed CSS bug with Show more/Show less and Search field
    * Fix   - Fixed bug with Chips that sometimes disappeared with enabled AJAX feature
    * Fix   - Fixed identifyWpQueriedObject(); method to be more compatible with WPML on singular pages

    = 1.7.3 =
    *Release Date - 04 January 2023*
    * Fix   - Fixed bug with undefined variables data_default, data_color and wrapper_class

    = 1.7.2 =
    *Release Date - 02 January 2023*
    * Dev   - Added Color Swatches support and improved Brand logo support
    * Tweak - Added hook 'wpc_filter_classes' to handle filter classes
    * Tweak - Added support for SEO Rules when permalinks (FLRT_PERMALINKS_ENABLED) are disabled
    * Tweak - Added sorting by Menu order for Product Categories
    * Tweak - Added hooks 'wpc_unset_num_shift' and 'wpc_set_num_shift' for numeric filters to allow shifting
    * Tweak - Added support for the Woodmart brand images
    * Tweak - Added license deactivate to the plugin uninstalling process
    * Fix   - Removed hreflang tags on filtering result pages to avoid SEO problems
    * Fix   - Fixed license activation for Wordpress Multisite
    * Fix   - Fixed bug with untranslatable post type and Custom Field, Custom Field Num filters
    * Fix   - Fixed bug with opened filters widget on 768px screens
    * Fix   - Fixed bug with transient name for Post Meta Exists filters
    * Fix   - Fixed bug for Latest posts Gutenberg module that show posts by Category

    = 1.7.1 =
    *Release Date - 30 September 2022*
    * Dev   - Added Show more/Show less toggle for filters
    * Tweak - Added hooks to make opened by default Folding, Hierarchy and Show more/Show less filters
    * Tweak - Optimized JavaScript code to increase speed of AJAX requests
    * Tweak - Added hook 'wpc_dropdown_default_option' to modify default option name in the dropdown view.
    * Fix   - Hide Show hierarchy field for non-taxonomy filters and for inappropriate views
    * Fix   - Fixed bug in Taxonomy Numeric filters related with taxonomy name contains "-" character
    * Fix   - Fixed bug for Numeric filters when Min and Max values were incorrect

    = 1.7.0 =
    *Release Date - 31 August 2022*
    * Dev   - Added Taxonomy Numeric type of filter
    * Fix   - Improved compatibility with SEO plugins in WordPress Multisite mode
    * Tweak - Reduced Chips size
    * Tweak - Added support of shortcodes to SEO Rules

    = 1.6.9 =
    *Release Date - 11 August 2022*
    * Fix   - Fixed problem with annoying message about plugin update when new version is the same as current

    = 1.6.8 =
    *Release Date - 10 August 2022*
    * Dev   - Ability to change mobile breakpoint in one code line
    * Dev   - Added Czech translation
    * Fix   - Fixed compatibility issue with the Brizy page builder
    * Tweak - Changed the Reset button color to inactive

    = 1.6.7 =
    *Release Date - 08 August 2022*
    * Dev   - Automatic updates for the PRO version of the plugin
    * Fix   - Fixed Tax and Meta queries for WooCommerce product variations. Some WooCommerce queries have empty 'wc_query' value
    * Fix   - Fixed problem with Post Meta Num terms if they are used for several post types.
    * Fix   - Added translation for the "Select %s first" phrase.
    * Fix   - Fixed color for a filter arrow in dashboard that becomes white with Divi theme.
    * Fix   - Added additional check for the $screen variable to avoid errors on some customized WP dashboards
    * Fix   - Fixed compatibility issue with the Brizy page builder
    * Fix   - Fixed posts count problem with PostMeta and Author filters when they appears on the page twice in different Filer Sets
    * Fix   - Fixed compatibility issue with All In One SEO Pro
    * Fix   - Fixed problem with Select2 script in dashboard
    * Tweak - Replace makeNoticesDismissible() JS function with common event
    * Tweak - Added aria-label to select fields

    = 1.6.5 =
    *Release Date - 22 May 2022*
    * Dev   - Updated WpManager->customParseRequest(); method for compatibility with WP 6.0
    * Fix   - Fixed bug with Grouped product prices and Custom Field Num filter
    * Fix   - Fixed compatibility issue with Yoast SEO Premium
    * Fix   - Fixed WP_Queries collecting algorithm to catch all queries

    = 1.6.4 =
    *Release Date - 11 April 2022*
    * Dev   - added support SEO Rules for Elementor title widgets
    * Tweak - added A3 Lazy load support.
    * Fix   - Fixed bug with a filter dropdown in SEO Rule
    * Fix   - Fixed closed current children term
    * Fix   - Fixed bug with Custom Field Num prefix that contains "_" symbol at the beginning

    = 1.6.3 =
    *Release Date - 31 March 2022*
    * Dev   - Added Ukrainian translation
    * Tweak - Added tip tip to inactive greyed filters
    * Fix   - Fixed Sorting widget compatibility problems with Beaver Builder
    * Fix   - Fixed closed current children term
    * Fix   - Fixed notice in FiltersWidget.php when Hide empty filter selected
    * Fix   - Fixed bug with meta value 0 for Custom Field filter

    = 1.6.2 =
    * Fix   - Fixed widget debug messages

Full changelog you can find here