Wordpress Search & Filter - Designs & Code

Search & Filter is a simple search and filtering plugin for WordPress. It is essentially an advancement of the WordPress search box, adding taxonomy filters & post filters to really refine your searches.

You can search by Category, Tag, Custom Taxonomy, Post Type, Post Date or any combination of these easily – you can even remove the search box and simply use it as a filtering system for your posts and pages.

Looking for the Pro version?

Download

Grab the download any of these sources:

WordPress Plugins GitHub

How To Use

To display Search & Filter all you need to do is a use a shortcode:

[searchandfilter fields="search,category,post_tag"]

This will display a search box, a category dropdown and a tag dropdown. You can use the shortcode within posts/pages and widget areas.

To use this within a theme file you simple need to call the `do_shorcode` function with the shortcode above within the theme file:

<?php echo do_shortcode( '[searchandfilter fields="search,category,post_tag"]' ); ?>

Documentation

Official documentation can be found on our docs site which contains usage examples and advanced settings & features.

Screenshots

Need More?

Search with Ajax
Add Multiple Forms
Search Post Meta Data and Custom Fields
More field types and comboboxes – with Range Sliders and Range Fields for Meta Data
Drag and Drop user interface – makes it incredibly easy to build a granular search form
Dedicated Support

Get Search & Filter Pro

Support

The best place to get support for this plugin is over on the WordPress support forum. I can’t guarantee lighting fast responses but I do my best to check there and respond to any queries,

Search & Filter Support

Links

– Official Documentation
– WordPress.org Plugin
– Github Project

123 Responses to “WordPress Search & Filter”

Jon

Good morning,
I just recently tried to purchase the Search and Filter Pro plugin but have not received a confirmation email. I also cannot log into the account that I set up. Can you confirm that my payment went through?

Thanks
May 16th, 2018 Reply
- Ross
  
  Hi Jon, can you send us an email with your payment info and I will track this down for you? https://www.designsandcode.com/contact/
  Thanks
  May 16th, 2018 Reply
Mark

Please make your plugin translateable. Not every human speaks or read english.
Thanks!
March 9th, 2018 Reply
- Ross
  
  S&F v3 will be fully translatable in the coming months – we are a bit behind on this I agree. Just to add for other readers – its our admin pages that are not translatable at the moment.
  March 14th, 2018 Reply
Bevan Givens

Hi there,

Is it possible to add filtering to page administration using the PRO version. I have template that uses custom fields and would like to filter ‘select’ field types for both users and administrators.

Cheers
January 19th, 2018 Reply
- Ross
  
  I’m afraid S&F only works on the front end, not admin at the moment (to be honest, there is no immediate plan to support admin areas with search functionality). Thanks
  January 24th, 2018 Reply
firdaus

does this plugin include csrf protection?
December 12th, 2017 Reply
- Ross
  
  Actually, we don’t “post” our forms anywhere, we build them using JS, and do a redirect – so its technically not required, and we don’t include it – we’re essentially just doing http redirects – just realised, answering this for our PRO plugin. FREE doesn’t, but will include in the next major update (or use the redirect method that pro does)
  December 13th, 2017 Reply
  - firdaus
    
    Hi there, we are using search and filter pro version. is just that when we test our WordPress site via Acunetix Security Testing Software, it shows error related that the form need CSRF protection. Kindly advise
    December 14th, 2017 Reply
Tony Witham

Does the plugin support 64 bit unix timestamps?
November 6th, 2017 Reply
- Ross
  
  For date fields? Yes, we support dates stored in YYYYMMDD, or unix timestamp (this is an option you can select in your fields)
  November 10th, 2017 Reply
Liz

Hi there,

I’ve added Search & Filter on a website I’m working on and I get the following line of text appear on the page where I add the shortcode:

/html/wp-content/plugins/search-filter/search-filter.php on line 578

Is this something I can ignore?
March 16th, 2017 Reply
- Ross
  
  Can you copy & paste the error message? Thanks
  March 21st, 2017 Reply
  - Liz
    
    Hi Ross,
    
    The message is:
    
    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/content/database_name/html/wp-content/plugins/search-filter/search-filter.php on line 578
    March 21st, 2017 Reply
Akhila c.c

Hi,
i add the search & filter plugin into my page.but the name of the drop down will display as “All Terms”.But Actualy i give the name of the taxonomy as ‘Salary’
December 22nd, 2016 Reply
- Ross
  
  You probably didn’t set the `all_items_label` of your taxonomy, if thats not the case, you can override it here – we have an option for `all_items_labels` http://docs.designsandcode.com/search-filter/#options
  December 24th, 2016 Reply
John

Hi,

I’m interested in the Pro Version, but first i need to understand if this plugin does what i want.

Is there an email i can contact you, and show you an example of what i’m trying to do? Since i cant register to support area, this was the way i found in order to contact you.

I would prefer this in a private conversation.

Thanks in advance,
November 29th, 2016 Reply
- Ross
  
  Hi John please contact here – https://www.designsandcode.com/contact – I’m currently away until the weekend so may take a little while to reply to your email (don’t worry our support forums do not stop when I am away)
  December 7th, 2016 Reply
Joost

I want to try the pro vesion a month? If its good i keep it.

Can i cancel the contract and payments at any time or any moment?

Hope to hear from you.
October 25th, 2016 Reply
- Ross
  
  Hi there
  
  There is no trial period, however if you have any issue then we will fix it, if we can’t fix then we can offer a refund.
  
  There is no automatic billing, so you can use the plugin as long as you want, but you will need to renew after a year if you wish to continue to get support & updates.. renewals have a discount applied.
  
  Hope that helps
  November 2nd, 2016 Reply
Frederik

Hello,

Is it possible to filter by product attributes?

Kind regards,

Frederik
September 20th, 2016 Reply
- Ross
  
  Absolutely 🙂
  September 26th, 2016 Reply
Ahmed

First thank you for the great plugin,
May I suggest some options to be added in the future:
1 Before filtring posts the script should filter the categories and tags
ie. if a category is chosen from the first list, the second list should include only the tags that are used in posts under that category.
2 it would be great if the user can search among lists like this: https://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/
Thanks again.
August 24th, 2016 Reply
- Ross
  
  Both of those features are available in Pro 🙂 We provide the option to use chosen js or select2 – https://select2.github.io/
  August 26th, 2016 Reply
Noble Kutlu

Search Filter works as a WordPress shortcode so it’s as simple as configuring the shortcode and setting your preferences!
March 12th, 2016 Reply
TJ

On the Pro version is it possible to search by a Month dropdown box rather than between 2 x open date fields?

Many thanks
February 25th, 2016 Reply
- Ross
  
  I’m afraid not, but there is now an option to add dropdowns for months and/or years within the datepicker like this example:
  https://jqueryui.com/datepicker/#dropdown-month-year
  
  Thanks
  March 1st, 2016 Reply
  - TJ
    
    Thanks Ross, I wonder if you may consider it for a future update? It’s just for scenarios when there are not a lot of posts within the month, it stops people searching for small date periods where the results are likely to be zero which always puts people off 🙂 Excellent plugin though!
    March 4th, 2016 Reply