Filter Everything — WordPress/WooCommerce Product Filter

Filter Everything PRO — is a plugin that completely solves the problem of filtering on a WordPress site. With WooCommerce or without it.

New in the latest version 1.8.5

• Added “Labels for Chips” option to configure chip labels
• Added “Dropdown Label” option
• Now default terms order in a Custom Field is the same as in ACF field
• Fixed bugs

What the best Filter plugin should be able to do?

• To filter by any possible criteria. Please, see details ↓
• 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 and support AJAX
• To be compatible with WordPress themes and popular plugins (ACF, WPML etc)

All of this is supported by the 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 the video review from WPTuts

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

 

WEBSITES THAT ALREADY USE The Filter Everything PRO

1. Demo Filter Everything
2. Games collection
3. Pharmacy store (14K products)
4. Tutors list (Horizontal view)
5. Lamp store
6. Air conditioning store
7. Jewelry shop
8. Furniture store
9. Sunglasses Shop
10. Real estate rental
11. Customization example
12. Your site?

HAVE A QUESTION?

Please, ask before buying →

PLUGIN KEY FEATURES

✔ Filters Any WordPress Post type

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

✔ Works 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:

1. Price, Sale price or any numeric value from Custom Fields.
2. Product rating
3. Product Category, Tag or Any custom Product Taxonomy 
4. Any product Attribute: size, color, length, width, weight etc
5. All Product statuses: On Sale, In Stock, Downloadable, Backordered, Featured etc
6. Product Type: Variable, Simple, Grouped, External
7. Shipping class
8. Product Visibility
9. Product Brand
10. Post date or even time
11. Author
12. Any custom WordPress Taxonomy
13. Featured image (exists/not exists)
14. Product/Post Views count
15. Cooking time
16. Calories
17. …
18. 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

✔ Arbitrary filters order in URL

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

✔ Built-in Search Field

That allows you to search in filtered posts fields such as Post content, Post title, Posts excerpt and SKU in Woo products.
Please, see demo example →

✔ Step-by-Step filtering

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

✔ Filters WooCommerce products + Smart filtering by variatons

✔ Own Sorting dropdown with unlimited sorting options

✔ 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 your 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.
• Tested and compatible with multi-currency plugins WOOCS and CURCY

MULTI-LICENSE IS AVAILABLE

Please, write me PM to get more info about multi-license.

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 [Term name|Post count|Term ID]
• Include/Exclude terms
• Folding [Enabled|Disabled]
• Use for Variations
• Show Hierarchy (for hierarchical taxonomies)
• Terms 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 [Never hide|Always hide|Hide in the initial Filter only]
• Show count
• Hide empty Filters
• Individual CSS ID or Class of Posts Container
• Search Field (to search among filtered posts)
• «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

Translations

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 contains full translations in:

• Ukrainian
• Czech (thanks to
  Tomáš Kapler )
• German (thanks to microteq)
• French
• Italian
• Dutch
• Polish
• and in Spanish

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 2024

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

NEW IN THE LAST UPDATE v1.8.5 from 15 May 2024

1. Dev – Added “Labels for Chips” option to configure chip labels
2. Dev – Added “Dropdown Label” option
3. Tweak – The “Show in Chips” option was hidden due to lack of demand
4. Tweak – Now default terms order in a Custom Field is the same as in ACF field
5. Tweak – If ACF field terms have labels, they displays in the Filters widget instead of values
6. Small fixes and improvements
7. Full list you can find in the changelog.txt

CHANGELOG

    = 1.8.5 =
    *Release Date - 15 May 2024Dev   - Added "Labels for Chips" option to configure chip labels
    Dev   - Added "Dropdown Label" option
    Tweak - The "Show in Chips" option was hidden due to lack of demand
    Tweak - Now default terms order in a Custom Field is the same as in ACF field
    Tweak - If ACF field terms have labels, they displays in the Filters widget instead of values
    Fix   - Fixed issue with WPML and Homepage in different languages

    = 1.8.4 =
    *Release Date - 08 April 2024Dev   - Tested and improved compatibility with WordPress 6.5
    Fix   - Fixed issue with Filter Set for a post page
    Fix   - Fixed issue with preview products in draft status and PHP > 8.2
    Fix   - Fixed JS error occurred on type in the Search field input
    Fix   - Issue with incorrect attribute 'for' in the Filters Widget title label

    = 1.8.3 =
    *Release Date - 14 February 2024Dev   - Increased plugin performance and made faster it up to 10 times
    Fix   - Added compatibility with PHP > 8.1, removed FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING error
    Fix   - Fixed bug with Date view available by default in a filter
    Fix   - Fixed the issue with products with empty '_sale_price' meta values and wrong On sale counters
    Fix   - Fixed issue with a parent filter, when current WordPress term archive page is selected term in the parent filter
    Fix   - Fixed bug when the only Search Field presents in a Filter Set
    Fix   - Fixed issues with Polylang plugin when language functions are not defined
    Fix   - Fixed issue with double click on the Apply Button after using the Search Field
    Fix   - Set correct permissions for the /assets dir
    Tweak - Added hook 'wpc_plugin_user_caps' to allow to modify user roles that can use the plugin
    Tweak - Made AJAX loading circle thinner

    = 1.8.2 =
    *Release Date - 10 January 2024Fix   - Fixed issue with GET-style parameters in filter URLs after 1.8.0 update

    = 1.8.1 =
    *Release Date - 10 January 2024Fix   - Fixed warning message on the login screen
    Fix   - Fixed issue with resetting filters cache

    = 1.8.0 =
    *Release Date - 08 January 2024Dev   - Added new filter type by Post Date
    Tweak - Made Numeric Range filters collapsible
    Fix   - Renamed 'wpc_clean' function to 'flrt_clean' to avoid conflicts

    = 1.7.16 =
    *Release Date - 14 December 2023Dev   - Added support for Dokan store pages
    Dev   - Added Experimental option that hides variable products with out of stock variations
    Tweak - Improved search field and added variations to search by SKU
    Tweak - Added global variable $flrt_plugin to access the class
    Tweak - Added ability to create translations for "Any %entity%" Filter Set type
    Fix   - Fixed the issue with double SEO titles and SEO Rules entities on block themes
    Fix   - Fixed issue with term_taxonomy_id and taxonomy filter counters
    Fix   - Fixed Select2 CSS conflict in Woocommerce admin forms

    = 1.7.15 =
    *Release Date - 01 August 2023Dev   - Added Spanish translation
    Dev   - Tested compatibility with WordPress 6.3
    Fix   - Added 301 redirect to canonical URL with (or without) correct user trailing slash on filtering pages
    Fix   - Added hook 'wpc_do_filter_request' to the collectFilteredPostsIds(); method to fix term counter
    Fix   - Fixed hover "checked" effect for Color swatches on mobile devices
    Fix   - Improved On Sale and Regular price translations for On Sale filter
    Tweak - Added hook 'wpc_set_min_max' to modify the $min_and_max array
    Tweak - Sorted Filter and SEO Rule terms alphabetically for greater convenience

    = 1.7.14 =
    *Release Date - 19 June 2023Tweak - Added the "How to?" Meta box on the Filter Set edit screen for quick help with popular questions
    Tweak - Added German translation. Thanks to Daniel (microteq)
    Fix   - Hotfix for the 'MetaBoxes::adviceMetabox() cannot be called statically' error

    = 1.7.11 =
    *Release Date - 31 May 2023Fix   - Fixed missing styles on Color swatches and logos edit pages in dashboard
    Fix   - Fixed location for the Apply button, when Filter Set is directed to All archive pages/Any taxonomy,post,author
    Fix   - Fixed bug when the Apply button does not appear on frontend in the latest position of the Filter Set
    Fix   - Fixed bug with negative numbers for Numeric filters
    Fix   - Fixed bug with 404 errors, when Filter Set was in Trash and there were filters without Filter Set in DB
    Fix   - Fixed bug with JS alert for mobile Pop-up widget when AJAX is disabled
    Tweak - Replaced /page/ with $wp_query->pagination_base in permalinks

    = 1.7.8 =
    *Release Date - 08 May 2023Dev   - Added Search field in the Filters widget. It is compatible with filtered posts, supports AJAX and allows to search by SKU among Woo products
    Dev   - Added ability to direct Filter Set to all singular pages (Any page)
    Fix   - Fixed compatibility issue for Bricks Builder and Filter Set for "Any taxonomy" 
    Fix   - Improved CURL outer request to avoid 10 seconds freezing in /wp-admin when the request is failed
    Fix   - Fixed fatal error in FiltersWidget.php(32): extract()
    Tweak - Added filter get terms hooks to allow to select terms from external tables
    Tweak - Added hook 'widget_title' for all widget titles
    Tweak - Added hook 'wpc_do_filter_request' to handle every filter action for wp_query
    Tweak - Added hooks 'wpc_all_set_wp_queried_posts' and 'wpc_variations_meta_query'
    Tweak - Added notice, when "CSS id or class of the Posts Container" configured wrong

    = 1.7.6 =
    *Release Date - 14 March 2023Dev   - Added [fe_posts_found] shortcode to display filtered posts number
    Fix   - Fixed bug with "+" symbol in ACF fields
    Fix   - Fixed compatibility related with post types for the latest Polylang Pro
    Tweak - Optimized main CSS file
    Tweak - Disabled including assets on pages does not related with filters
    Tweak - Improved frontend for the RTL version
    Tweak - Removed Uncategorized from Category pages list
    Tweak - Improved filter templates. Overridden templates should be updated

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

    = 1.7.4 =
    *Release Date - 31 January 2023Dev   - 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 2023Fix   - Fixed bug with undefined variables data_default, data_color and wrapper_class

    = 1.7.2 =
    *Release Date - 02 January 2023Dev   - 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 2022Dev   - 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

Full changelog you can find here