Title: Filter stopped filtering posts
Last modified: May 13, 2023

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# Filter stopped filtering posts

 *  Resolved [borgcollective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borgcollective/)
 * (@borgcollective)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-stopped-filtering-posts/)
 * Hi, first to say plugin is awesome, enough settings in free edition. I have filter
   everything widget in a post sidebar area, which picked all values and counted
   all posts where it should. Everything worked fine, until some update.Im, not 
   sure what changed Elementor, GreenShift…. or plugin itself, but it stopped filtering
   posts. So im not clear what exactly happen. I use two ACF numeric fields for 
   range discount value and range price. I tried to remove everything from filter
   set, except WordPress category … didn’t help, I tried reinstalling plugin … tried
   disabling litespeed cash…
 * Is there any limitation for free version which causing problem with filtering?
   But like i said i tried remove all except category
 * And while im here i have few pre-sale question too.
    1. Can i Use shortcodes in Pro version?
 *  2. Can i create more than one filter set to use in widgets. I was created two
   filter sets to explore functionalities but i could not find them in widgets or
   select them in widget?
 * 3. Is there option in pro version where i can set in filter set setting that 
   specific filter shows up after selecting not certain parent filter, but certain
   category or tag from parent filter?
 * Best Regards, Steve
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ffilter-stopped-filtering-posts%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [borgcollective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borgcollective/)
 * (@borgcollective)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-stopped-filtering-posts/#post-16734869)
 * 🙂 And one more question : Do numeric filters have any type of sanitisation for
   values they handle ? For eg. Do they strip %$£¥€₩ characters from value they 
   found in that meta key. I known that usually meta fields on their creation have
   have sanitation on values if they set as numerical but does filter has that itself?
 * Best regards ,
 * Steve
 *  Plugin Author [stepasyuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stepasyuk/)
 * (@stepasyuk)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-stopped-filtering-posts/#post-16739092)
 * Hello [@borgcollective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borgcollective/)
 * Thank you for your interest in Filter Everything plugin.
 * Regarding the issue – the Free version of the plugin works only with Main WP_Queries
   and it filters posts displayed with Elementor post module if the module uses “
   Current query” in the Query settings. Maybe you changed this option and filters
   stopped to work.
    1. Shortcodes available for both – Free and PRO option. You can find info about
       them here – [https://filtereverything.pro/resources/shortcodes/](https://filtereverything.pro/resources/shortcodes/)
    2. Yes, in the PRO version you can create and use unlimited number of Filter Sets.
       In the Free version it is limitation that you can use only one Filter Set per
       post type.
    3. Unfortunately you can select only whole Filter as parent and to make current
       filter related from it. But not from a certain Filter option. From other hand
       you can you can achieve it with custom coding. There is function, that returns
       you current selected filters and terms and for example you can add specific 
       CSS class in the body tag and to write simple CSS that makes filter hidden by
       default, but visible when this CSS class present in the body tag.
    4. I could write such sanitization function for the Range filter, it is easy to
       achieve. But there is another problem – you can not write correct SQL query 
       to a DB which contains values with units. Because it will look like 
       `SELECT*
       FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = 'length' AND meta_value > 5mm` and DB will
       not recognize such query. It is bad decision from the software design point 
       of view to store units with values in the same field. You always can update 
       your fields, remove units from there and displaye them only in frontend. In 
       this case you can change units at any time and there will not be any problems
       with selection/sorting these values from DB.
 * Thank you. Regards.

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