paulnl

Indeed for others who may experience the same issue: Meanwhile I received advise from Stack Overflow which worked perfectly.

And thanks so much @wpallimport for volunteering your solution. Because of the working advice I received separately, I didn’t test yours.

What a relief, thanks!!!

@dinhtungdu, not sure why you refer to a theme? I didn’t mention a theme, and my remark will apply to any theme for that matter. I’m referring to Elementor Pro. To be precise, the issue happens when I use the ‘Author Box Widget’!

To check if it was something else in my WordPress setup that created this problem I switched to the plugin ‘WP User Avatar | User Profile Picture’. With that plugin it works out of the box.

1. “include child” – We have it in Conditions but missing in the Filtering Conditions. I already create a task about this. It will be added asap

Good to hear. Keep me posted please when it’s done!

2. “issue with sub-filter not clearing value” – Our QA will check it asap and if there is an error it will be forwarded to our developer.

Thanks. Please keep me posted!

3. “you just need to add the Ajax logic so it reloads conditions” – it sounds good and probably will be easier but it will slow down the plugin. There are few things:
– Conditions are faster. Maybe not that much but still.
– Filtering Conditions require filter wrapper to be presented on the page. Other way we don’t know where to place the filter when it match the conditions. BUT some themes are adding styles to this wrappers like border and you see just lines in the sidebar. Right now we cannot fix it. Conditions don’t have this issue as they don’t show the filter at all(no wrappers, no issues).

>>>>>> This was my first thoughts about your proposition #3

But “a filter disappear when no applicable product is shown anymore” is rather a good argument. I need a time to think how to change it and maybe we will remove second Conditions box as you proposed.
It will not be that fast as we need to find an easy way to move people who already configure it with current options.

Fair enough about the difference in speed between Ajax vs Conditions, you are probably right Conditions are faster. Not sure the marginal speed gain is worth the extra complexity, but I leave that to you!

Yes you need to wrap your head around the problem to move people who already configured it with current options, I can imagine. The simplest way might be to migrate their settings automatically to the new settings ‘logic’, and then to display a warning (one time until dismissed permanently by the user) in the WP Admin plugin settings page that the logic has changed, plus a brief explanation. This prohibits problems for people who are not aware of the change and do not log in to their admin for a while, it avoids complexities for you as coders to keep legacy code and logic for a while, and also avoids a lot of communication in advance.

Please update plugin to the recent version.
Open plugin settings page, last tab Addons and turn on the single Addon there (just click the image) and Save.
Now open some filter for edit(or create new). You will find there second Condtions box called Filtering Conditions.
Add new condition to show filter based on filter applied.
This is first version of this feature but tests show good results already.

Feedback will be appreciated.

I’ve used it for a while now, works really well, thanks.
It would be much better if you could make this more high level and automated though.

Compare my suggested solution to the – already existing – automatism of letting a filter disappear when no applicable product is shown anymore.
But now you turn the logic upside down:
Make a setting to: Let a filter only appear AFTER selecting the applicable category it is part of.
This means that for each filter you make you simply need to tick this box and forget about it. If a product changes its category, this new category is applied, and there is no need to remember this and go back to the filter settings and change the applicable category in the filter condition.

And if this tickbox is not ticked, it works like today; the Filter shows from the beginning until no product that it applies to is listed anymore.

Makes sense? If not ask me more clarification questions so I can explain better.

In any case I really appreciate the Beta functionality already, thanks!

Small final point: I activated the Beta functionality a few weeks back. Somehow it automatically deactivated itself, perhaps on a general plugin update? I’m not sure, just something to look into.

Thanks, that’s a good first step, appreciated.
Feedback:
– Add option to apply to all children of an attribute (now I have to choose each individual child separately, what if you have 50 children, and what if you add a child later and forget to update this filter
– Fix the disappearing of the ‘selected filters’ filter when using this beta. How to replicate? Set ‘Filtering Condition’ to a product category (for example ‘cables’), let an attribute appear (for example ‘colors’), select an attribute (for example ‘white’) and then deselect the product category. This will show all products that have the color ‘white’ from any product category because the color filter remains selected in the url, and it will make the ‘selected filters’ filter disappear.
Suggestion: The solution might be that you ensure there is another check done when the product category filter changes, so that any attributes are no longer selected?

I guess I had trouble explaining exactly what I need. But this plugin (which is for another Filter product WOOF) does exactly what I’m looking for (for WOOF), and it works with Ajax.
So it helps explaining my needs for your plugin!

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/woof-by-category/

Could you add this functionality to your plugin? It would be extremely helpful!

I realize I can switch to WOOF, but apart from this one issue I like your plugin much better. So I hope you’ll consider it.