Using The Same “Filter By” Option on A Single Filter Set

  • Resolved envinite

    (@envinite)


    3 years, 5 months ago

    Hello Filter Everything team,

    I was testing the plugin and I think it’s a great so far. However it seems that I couldn’t use the same “Filter by” option multiple times within the same Filter Set. Filter by option that have been used once will appear inactive/ greyed out (not because of the wrong “Post Type to filter).

    For example let’s say I sell various machinery product for home and industrial usage, with name and use tags as follows:

    • Machine A; with tags: “washing”, “industrial”
    • Machine B; tags: “dryer”, “home use”

    So I would like to have filters using its product tags:

    • Machine Type (Filter by: Product Tags) include terms: “washing”, “dryer”
    • Application (Filter by: Product Tags) include terms: “industrial”, “home use”

    Unfortunately it seems the plugin only allow 1 Filter by option per filter set; so I cannot have both Machine type & Application filters within the same filter set.

    Is there perhaps a setting to allow using the same filter type option within the same filter set? I checked the settings but couldn’t find one. Haven’t find a clue in documentation as well. I tried few other filter plugin and they could handle multiple filter using different tags, not sure why it’s greyed out in this plugin.

    Many thanks for developing this plugin, I’ll see if it’s perfect for my DIVI built site before getting the pro version.

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  • Thread Starter envinite

    (@envinite)

    3 years, 5 months ago

    It seems that even creating a new Filter Set to get around the “one Filter By option” per Filter Set problem I wrote before, have its own problem.

    Let’s say on first Filter Set I have used Filter by: product tags with “type” as its Prefix for URL.

    Then if I create a new Filter Set and use Filter by: product tags again, the Prefix for URL will use “type” and cannot be changed just for this specific filter (can only change it on main setting’s URL prefixed which affects every ‘Filter by: product tags’ filter)

    Was this intentionally designed this way? Why? This really limits the usage of this filter plugin.

    Plugin Author stepasyuk

    (@stepasyuk)

    3 years, 5 months ago

    Hello @envinite

    Thank you for your interest in Filter Everything plugin.

    Indeed, you can not use the same entity (filtering criterion) twice or more in the same Filter Set as it may create conflict between URL var names. Also from the app design point of view it is bad solution use the same entity (product tags) to separate products by two different criteria – Machine Type and Application. Because you always have to split all your tags to these two sub-groups on your site. Much better is to create independed taxonomy for example “Application” and use it separately from the Product tags. It is easy and possible with free plugin CPTUI or even with custom code placed in functions.php

    But from other side as you are not the first person, who asked about such possibility, I’m thinking about adding it to my plugin in the future updates. It will not be canoical from the app design point of view, but it will solve this problem for some users.

    Also if you use PRO version, you always can create the second Filter Set and place there second filter by Product tags and exclude all extra terms from it. In this case it will work as you need.

    Ahmad

    (@ibrahimahmadid)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    I have the same problem, but thank you for the explanation. Understandable why it is designed that way. I decided to use CPTUI plugin to create custom taxonomies so it could be added on the filter, I’m not aware that’s the better way to manage products before.

    Many thanks for the help! 🙂

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Ahmad.
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