How to do advanced Search in Products, in WooCommerce admin dashboard (backend)?

  • Resolved George

    (@geosb)


    2 years, 2 months ago

    Hi!

    I am wondering if there is a way to do advanced Search in WooCommerce Products, in WooCommerce admin dashboard (back-end) inside WordPress.

    When I am in WordPress Dashboard and I am clicking to WooCommerce Products (All Products), there is a table listing my Products. There, there is a search box in the upper-right corner with a button named “Search products”.

    My question is: how can I search there with specific terms (to do advanced search)?

    For example, I would like to use some filters on searching a product. If I want to search my Products only by ID, I would like to write something like “ID:1059” in the search box as a search term and the results to be the product with the ID 1059 (if any), and not every product which contains the string 1059 anywhere in it…

    Another example would be the search term “title:*bio* t??” (where * and ? are wildcards), to search this way only inside the product titles and to have results with products which complying with this search term in its titles. Again, I do not want as a result every product which contains the string “*bio* t??” anywhere in it (which is the standard behavior right now)…

    For everyone’s information, I am using WordPress v6.0.2, WooCommerce v6.8.2 and PHP v7.4.30 (if this info is useful).

    Thank you

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by George.
    • This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by George.
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  • Saif

    (@babylon1999)

    Hi there,

    If I understand this correctly, you want an option to search a product using the product ID or title ONLY on the admin page.

    This is not a default WooCommerce feature, you’ll need a custom solution. Unfortunately, custom code editing is not within our scope of support here. You can work with one of our WooExperts to achieve this.

    Thread Starter George

    (@geosb)

    Yes, this is exactly what I want! An option to search a product using the product ID or title ONLY on the admin page!

    OK, I will search in WooExperts but I think this is a MUST-HAVE on WooCommerce and should someone propose it to Developers…

    I don’t know if there is a special place to put it as a proposal for WooCommerce, can you inform me on this?

    Thank you.

    Hi @geosb

    I think this is a MUST-HAVE on WooCommerce and should someone propose it to Developers

    if there is a special place to put it as a proposal for WooCommerce

    If you’d like to suggest this as an inbuilt feature in future WooCommerce versions, you can post it in our Ideas Board for others to vote on it and for developers to review it. You can find the Ideas Board at: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/trunk/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#feature-requests-

    Cheers

    Thread Starter George

    (@geosb)

    Thank you very much!

    I’ll do it.

    Cristian

    (@mastix)

    I agree on this. The product search engine inside WooCommerce is a real embarrassment. Totally unuseful. They always put the same examples of shirts and colors as if the whole planet is selling only shirts. If you do a commerce solution to sell anything, the product search should be able to search for anything, and that means advanced searching.

    Sometimes I hope that some other solution much more powerful that WooCommerce comes along because these one has basic limitation that really have no sense at all for any serious store keeping.

    Hi @mastix

    I agree on this. The product search engine inside WooCommerce is a real embarrassment. Totally unuseful. They always put the same examples of shirts and colors as if the whole planet is selling only shirts. If you do a commerce solution to sell anything, the product search should be able to search for anything, and that means advanced searching.

    We totally understand that the search function of WooCommerce has some limitations. I checked the Github repository and found that it was already raised here: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/35503

    You could subscribe to the thread to keep posted for updates.

    Thanks!

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