I. Why Live Filter?
Live Filter was built to help your visitors to find what they want quickly and easily.
To show filters in sidebar, please check this document.
Content Views Pro already has the Shuffle Filter feature, which provides a nice animation to filtering WordPress posts by category, tag or custom taxonomy. You can find the demo of Shuffle Filter here.
But Shuffle filter also has disadvantages: it doesn’t support numbered pagination, it can’t show WordPress custom fields as filter options, it can’t show sort options. That is why we’ve built a new filter called “Live Filter”, which offers another powerful filtering & sorting functionality to your WordPress site, to help your visitors to find what they want quickly.
The main differences between Shuffle Filter and Live Filter:
| Live Filter | Shuffle Filter | |
|---|---|---|
| A comprehensive front-end filter | Yes. It can filter with complex combination of multiple taxonomies, custom fields, text search, and sort |
No. It only can filter well with one taxonomy. |
| Show custom field as filter | Yes | No |
| Show text search field | Yes | No |
| Show sorting options | Yes | No |
| Work in the Blog page, taxonomy archive page, search page, etc. | Yes | No |
| Modify & process URL parameters | Yes | No |
| Pagination support | (Ajax) Numbered pagination | (Ajax) Load more (Ajax) Infinite scrolling |
| Use animation when filtering results | No | Yes |
With Live Filter, you can show filters as:
- Checkbox
- Dropdown
- Radio button
- Buttons group
- Range slider (*)
- Date range (*)
- Text search
(*): These options are only available when showing custom field as filter.
II. How to use?
1. Show taxonomy (category, tag…) as filters
In Filter Settings tab, select Taxonomy (Categories, Tags...) in Advance group, then select the taxonomy you want to show. After that, select the Show as filters to visitors checkbox:
2. Show custom field values as filters
In Filter Settings tab, select Custom Fields in Advance group, then click Add New button. New field will be added, just select name of the custom field, value type, then select Show as filters to visitors:
There are extra settings depend on the Type option which help you to customize the filter output.
For example, these are settings to display price of WooCommerce products in a range slider:
3. Show text search field
In Filter Settings tab, select Keyword in Advance group, then select Show search field to visitors:
4. Show custom field as sort options
In Filter Settings tab, select Sort by in Advance group, then click Add New button in Custom Fields group. New field will be added, just select name of the custom field, value type, then select Show as sort option to visitors:
(show both ascending and descending options of a custom field)
5. Show options to sort by Title, Date
Besides showing custom fields as sort options, you can show common options too:
- Date (Oldest)
- Date (Newest)
- Title (A – Z)
- Title (Z – A)
- Comments count (asc)
- Comments count (desc)
That helps your visitors to sort content themselves by title, date, comments count.
These options are selectable, and their text are changeable.
We love to hear your questions and feedbacks. Please contact us here.
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