Filter stopped filtering posts

  • Resolved borgcollective

    (@borgcollective)


    1 year, 10 months ago

    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

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  • Thread Starter borgcollective

    (@borgcollective)

    ?? 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

    (@stepasyuk)

    Hello @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/
    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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