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Search & Filter Pro – The Ultimate WordPress Filter Plugin

Search by custom fields, post meta, taxonomies, tags, categories, authors, post types, post dates and more – The Ultimate WordPress Filter Plugin with Ajax!

Demo 1 (Movies) Demo 2 (WooCommerce)

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.

Screenshots of Search & Filter admin section and when used in different themes (2013 and WooCommerce) – click to open full size images.

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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 from Chosen
      • 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 from Chosen
    • Post Date
      • input types: single date, date range
      • jQuery Date Picker
      • Choose if the picker has a dropdown for months/years
      • Date display formats: “dd/mm/yyyy”, “mm/dd/yyyy” and “yyyy/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 from Chosen 
        • 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 from Chosen 
      • 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 from Chosen.
  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 “yymmdd” 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
  19. Dedicated Support Forum
  20. 1 Year of Support and Upgrades

 

Documentation

Head over to the docs which covers how to use Search & Filter Pro.  We’re working on adding more info and video tutorials soon.

Get started with the docs

 

Support

We provide support between Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 5.30pm GMT but if we’re online outside of those hours don’t be surprised to get a reply from us.

Support is provided through our support forums using the login details you supplied when purchasing the plugin:

Head to the support forums

 

Ratings & Reviews

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958 Responses to “Search & Filter Pro – The Ultimate WordPress Filter Plugin”

  1. daniel

    I added product filters and they look fine on desktop view as they show up in the sidebar. But when it goes to mobile view, the filters show up at the end of the product listings. Is there a way to create a mobile view for the filters?

    Reply

    • Ross

      Sure, you would create some CSS rules and apply them to the form – so you would be looking at using a combination of CSS/media queries – and to target the form directly all you need to know is the class `.searchandfilter`

      Reply

  2. KH

    Hello,

    I’m interest in buying your search filter pro plugin, but it’s not needed for whole site, only needed for use on a page where we’re displaying an image gallery which is created with Justified Image Grid plugin http://codecanyon.net/item/justified-image-grid-premium-wordpress-gallery/2594251 My question is, can we make your search filter be effective and search only images in WP ‘Media’ and not search whole site and not interfere with site’s search facility as well?

    I will appreciate a fast response. Thanks!

    Regards,
    KH

    Reply

    • Ross

      Sure, you can even use custom taxonomies on your media library (lets say one for images), and then in S&F options, you can include only this specific taxonomy in the search 🙂

      Reply

  3. Parham

    Hi Ross,

    I recently purchased the Developer licence. I am looking at your Demo1 and it’s somewhat what I am looking for. I have 2 questions:

    1) Are you available for 1 hour of consulting to get me up-n-running?
    2) Will you be able to provide a copy of your movie demo or a read-access to the admin section?

    I like to learn and copy many elements (not content) from your demo for my site, if that is okay of course.

    Thanks a lot

    Reply

    • Ross

      I don’t see why not, it probably just a case of figuring out the correct CSS selector to target the checkboxes

      Reply

  5. Hielke

    Hello,

    We like to use the ‘Search and Filters’ plugin together with the ‘Relevanssi’ plugin.

    In this post https://www.designsandcode.com/forums/topic/user-search/ you wrote about ‘User search’:

    ‘If a user was somehow represented by a Custom Post Type then it could be possible.’

    In this post https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-author-pages-in-search about the relavanssi plugin Mikko Saari wrote:

    ‘You need Relevanssi Premium to include the author pages in the search results.’

    and:

    ‘You can recognise users from their post type, which is “user”.’

    Does this mean that searching and displaying author pages in the results is possible now ?

    Thanks!

    Reply

    • Ross

      I’m not sure if Mikko means that the users are ACTUAL custom post types, or in his plugin, you can find authors in the “post types” list – which may semantically not be correct, but for UI reasons he may have added the option there – I’m still not sure to be honest – try to find out if they are actual custom post types

      Reply

  6. hello, I’m interested in this plugin.

    Could you explain to me the difference between single and developer license?

    Thanks very much

    Reply

    • Ross

      Single license means you get support and updates for a year, for one site only – developer allows unlimited sites for the same time period.

      Thanks

      Reply

  7. Sergio

    Hi. I have a few questions:

    1. May I use this plugin without Woo Commerce? I don’t have it installed
    2. I’m going to use it for a movies site, I’ve seen you have a “movies” kind of posts. Does it comes with the plugin?
    3. May I show the form in any place of the website or just the sidebars? I’ve seen the shortcode creation but just to be sure.

    thanks!

    Reply

    • Ross

      Hey Sergio

      To answer:

      1. Yes
      2. This is just a custom post type, you can easily create a custom post type for any purpose with another plugin or using WP functions
      3. Absolutely, you can use a shortcode to position the search form anywhere in your site.

      Thanks

      Reply

  8. Kania

    Hi Ross,

    I really like the features your plugin gives in your movie review demo and I think it will suit my need. I want to make a book review site with Divi (elegant themes). I should mention that I do not know coding so I want to make sure that I will achieve my goal without any confusion 🙂

    My question is that how did you make those movie reviews in that format (picture with the text next to it) in the demo? are they projects or posts or something else? when I create mine as projects they will only have a thumbnail and no place to put that quick info (the naming, star rating, ..)

    Also how does the plugin filter the projects? should I put tags on my projects or where the info should be put?

    Thank you in advance!

    Reply

    • Ross

      Hey Kania

      You can create the search form with no coding whatsoever, however, the search results might need a hand. S&F does not come with a results layout/builder – S&F tries to work with templates & layouts in your theme – but I’m thinking with Divi, they might use their own templating system rather than standard WP, which might make things a bit tricky to setup.

      I know other users’ have managed to set S&F up with divi, but personally I’ve not had any experience.

      Thanks

      Reply

  9. Manik

    If I have a page that displays results from different custom post types with their own taxonomies then does this allow me to put filter form on that page? Eg. I am displaying Products (CPT – products) and Offer/Coupons (CPT- offers).

    “1 Year of Support and Upgrades” – If I purchase a current version of plugin and after a year a new version come then do I my current version gets still maintained for any security issues etc or it will be just abandoned?

    Reply

    • Ross

      The subscription is for a year for any version of Search & Filter Pro – as in, the license covers all versions past present and future and means you get all updates to the plugin 🙂

      RE the results, S&F can integrate with existing queries in your templates, or you can create specific templates for displaying the search results, what you describe should be possible.

      Thanks

      Reply

  10. Will the pro version allow you to track what people are searching for? I was looking into adding another plugin called search meter but if this pro version will do the same thing, then I would rather purchase this than add another plug-in because I know this already works. Thanks,

    Reply

  11. Hello – keen to buy this. My client is requesting a feature where they can limit posts by the first letter of the title. They want a list of the alphabet, click one (eg ‘A’) and it will show all articles starting with ‘A’? Is this possible?

    Reply

    • Ross

      Actually a user recently achieved this, but its not out the the box. I think they added a taxonomy and had to manually add the posts to the the taxonomy “A” for example – it works – but is not out of the box. You could even automate adding your posts to the correct taoxnomy based on first letter so it would all happen transparently – but I guess that would be some additional work for you to implement (not to hard using WP filters). Thanks

      Reply

  12. JurgenDV

    Hello,

    can you use the Woo MyStile search filter without adding price info and possibility to order online ?

    KR,

    Jurgen

    Reply

  13. Hello!

    I was wondering – I have I site that will have many pages with some information about members. Is it possible to filter and serach for these member using your plugin? For example, I want to filter only those members, who`s age is above 20, or who is studying and who is not etc. An after filtering those members, I want to click on them and they will redirect me to their pages. Something like that.

    Thanks

    Reply

    • Ross

      Hey Verners, you say you have a site with “many pages”, S&F can search pages sure, but S&F cannot search users (actual WP users), So if you user data is stored in a custom post type, or a Page, then sure S&F should be able to search it, if its users, then S&F cannot search this.

      Thanks

      Reply

      • Hi there!
        Thank you for your reply! I mean, not WP users, but for example, I have a page with information about some people (not WP users) and I want to filter and search them somehow, because I will have many hundreds on pages like those, so that when I enter a home page, I can filter and search them.
        An example:
        Page contains text about where does a person study and his age. And I have plenty of that kind of pages about many persons. Is it possible, to somehow, filter and search for some specific persons, like, the ones who`s age is above 21, or for example, who is studying and who is not. So that it shows me the list, and I can press on those pages. Sound complicating, but that is why I am asking about this plugin, would like to buy it, but what about a refund, is it possible to get back money, if I am not satisfied with the service?

        Thanks!

        Reply

  14. Hello,

    I have a question about the plug in. i have a woo shop and i would like 4 filters

    Dropdown 1 -> Name -> Sort A-z or Z-a
    Dropdown 2 ->Length -> Sort wpcf-length High to low or Low to high. ( wpcf-length = 3:40 as in time min and sec)
    Dropdown 3 -> Price -> Default woo price -> High to low or low to high
    Dropdown 4 -> File size -> wpcf-size Low to high or high to low ( wpcf-size = 3.20 = 3mb and 200kb )

    Is this possible with this plugin?

    Thanks in advanced!
    Jeffrey Lang

    Reply

    • Ross

      Hi Jeffrey – these all sound like sorting options? In this case, they are all possible, however, S&F only allows 1 sorting field – so you would have 1 dropdown with all these optionss, or one radio list with all these options – so yes its possible, but not as separate inputs 🙂

      Reply

  15. Hi,

    I am a developer. I would like to buy Developer License.
    I am not developing themes only, but whole sites for my clients. If I will by Developer license, and renew after one year, will it allow to update plugin for all my previous customers (where I use that plugin)?

    Thanks for answer Peter

    Reply

  16. Carlos Muñoz

    what is the difference of?:
      Single Site License – $ 20.00
      Developer License – $ 75.00

    and if in the paid version you can search for id categories bone to bring me and outcome of that category?

    Reply

    • Ross

      Developer means you get support & updates for unlimited sites for 1 yr, single site license means you only get updates for 1 site.

      Thanks

      Reply

    • Ross

      I believe it works with the custom post type created, but it might not work with layouts generated by tablepress, you might have to manually create a template for displaying the results and copy over the html structure to get the layout looking how you want.

      Thanks

      Reply

  18. This is a pre-purchase question. I’d like to arrange my dropdown options in the content area and have the results display below (instead of on the side as in the demo). Is this possible?

    I’m wanting to do a search similar to this: https://www.elwyn.org/search/

    Thanks

    Reply

  19. Dan

    Hi there, we want to purchase this plugin for a client but not 100% sure htat it would fit our needs. Is it possible to get a money back guarantee for the first 30 days? That would put us at ease.

    Thanks,
    Dan.

    Reply

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