PWF – WooCommerce Products Filter

The PWF plugin is a robust tool designed to enhance WooCommerce product filtering capabilities. It empowers users to filter products based on a wide range of criteria, including categories, tags, attributes, taxonomies, price, stock status, rating, on sale status, featured status, custom fields, authors, search text, sorting order, and date.

Moreover, it extends its filtering capabilities to WordPress custom post types such as blog posts and events. This functionality applies to various contexts, including archive pages, category pages, and taxonomies pages, as well as content created using Gutenberg, shortcodes, and page builder plugins. It also supports custom PHP code utilizing the WP_Query class.

Here are some key highlights of the PWF plugin:

Main Features:

• User-friendly URL formatting for filters.
• Support for various WordPress post types.
• Unlimited filter creation.
• Intuitive step-by-step filter setup.
• Flexible vertical and horizontal layout options.
• Drag-and-drop form builder for easy customization.
• Compatibility with RTL languages, Ajax, and mobile devices.
• Custom filter creation for specific categories.
• Support for WordPress MultiSite and Multi-Languages (WPML).
• Hierarchy taxonomies.
• Toggle content visibility.
• Show/hide item count.
• Language support for English and Arabic.
• Scroll-to-top option after Ajax filtering.
• Control over the display position of active filters.
• Options for handling empty filter items (show, hide, disable).
• Translation readiness with PO & MO files.
• Integration of JS Pushstate for browser back button functionality.
• Pagination options (Numbers, Load more button, Infinite scroll).
• Caching system for improved load speed (tested with up to 60,000 products in three languages).
• Code optimization adhering to WordPress coding standards.

Available Display Fields:

• Date.
• Radio buttons.
• Ratings.
• Box lists.
• Text lists.
• Checkboxes.
• Price sliders.
• Apply and reset buttons.
• Title or title and content search.
• Color lists with image upload option.
• Dropdown menus with multi-select capabilities.
• Range sliders for meta, taxonomy, and product rate.
• Column layout for horizontal design.

Filtering WooCommerce Products:

• Seamless filtering of WooCommerce products using the built-in drag-and-drop form builder.
• Integration with the shop archive page and WooCommerce shortcodes.
• Filtering of products displayed through custom queries using WP_Query.
• Criteria for filtering WooCommerce products include price, stock status, product variations, custom fields, date, search, on sale status, featured status, ratings, product categories, tags, custom taxonomies (e.g., brand), product visibility, and product shipping.
• Support for various product types, including external, grouped, simple, and variable products.
• Filter WooCommerce products using taxonomies created by custom code or plugins.

Using Ajax for WooCommerce Product Filtering:

• Utilizes Ajax for fast and clean filtering.
• Compatibility with popular WooCommerce WordPress themes like Avada, Enfold, and Uncode.
• Support for Elementor and PowerPack for Elementor for Ajax-based product retrieval.

Filtering WooCommerce Products by Variations:

• The stock status filter helps customers identify in-stock and out-of-stock products based on variations such as color and size.

Filtering Any WordPress Custom Post Types:

• Filter any WordPress custom post types, including blog posts, based on categories, tags, meta, date, author, search, and taxonomies.
• This feature applies to post archive and taxonomies pages.

Plugin Shortcodes and Widgets:

• Three widgets and corresponding shortcodes for filter item display, active filter display, and SEO short descriptions.

Support for Page Builder Plugins:

• Compatibility with popular page builder plugins, including Elementor, Elementor PRO, PowerPack for Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder, Divi Builder, Themify Builder, Oxygen Builder, and Beaver Builder.
• Ajax technique compatibility with Elementor Pro and PowerPack plugins for WooCommerce product display.

Support for WordPress Themes:

• Wide-ranging support for WordPress themes, with custom code added to popular themes for Ajax compatibility.

SEO Tool:

• Includes a powerful SEO tool with a drag-and-drop form builder.
• Supports clean and pretty URLs.
• Integrates with popular SEO plugins like Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, and Squirrly.
• Modifies meta titles, meta descriptions, canonical URLs, previous and next links, and breadcrumb trails.
• Generates URLs effortlessly with a one-click generate button.
• XML sitemap support (coming soon).

Style Customization Tool:

• Allows customization of plugin styles to match website themes, including color, font size, shape size, and hover effects.

Analytic Tool:

• Provides analytics to gain insights into customer behavior and website improvements.
• Filters analytics by date range, filter name, Ajax or API usage, and languages used on the website.
• Offers data on filter usage by customers.

Developer Friendly:

• Offers numerous PHP and JavaScript hooks for extensive customization.
• Includes a REST API interface for interaction with the plugin and WooCommerce via JSON data exchange.