Powerful and flexible plugin for creating filters for your WooCommerce products.
It could help your customers to choose products consistently by answering questions and giving a description of each step.
You can create a quiz to filter products and show only appropriate results to your customers.
This is also possible to show filtering results right within the filter or lead the customer to a shopping page.
The filter can be placed on any page. Just place the shortcode wherever you want.
And of course, it can be used as a usual product filter in a shopping page sidebar.
Download the zip file of the plugin from the repository. After go to the admin part of your site to the Plugins - Add New page.
To open the file uploading form click the "Upload Plugin" button on the top.
After select the downloaded zip file in the form lower, submit it and click "Activate" button.
If you have no activated WooCommerce plugin you will see a notice about this. Step Filter requires WooCommerce plugin on the site for work.
The first thing you need to do after the installation of the plugin is to create a question for the filter. Go to the WooCommerce - SF Questions page and click the Add New button.
Use the post content as a description of the question. The label setting will be used as the step's name. Alternatively, the title of the post will be used instead. This part is the same for any filter type and view.
First of all select one of view types. Possible types are:
After you can select a filter type setting. You can see not all of the variants are allowed. This depends on the selected view type. Possible types are:
Numeric view types have their own settings bundle. This is possible to set From and To values caption, the Unit text and change the step of the value. If you have decimal values as answers set this setting to the lowest possible fraction.
Also, this is possible to Enable/disable the slider for these types of views.
Not-numeric views have the Action on click setting. It allows making action on selecting the value. This is possible to do:
Select view type can have an Empty value to oblige the user to make a choice.
Types with the only answer ( radio / select) have the Doesn't matter settings group. It allows to output an answer which doesn't modify the query anyhow. Anyway, this type of views always requires a selected value.
Checkbox-based view types have a Relation setting to define "OR" or "AND" relation between the selected answers. This also possible to define Minimum and Maximum values selected.
For radio / checkbox / select view types you can use the Unmet values behavior setting. It allows to handle question values which leads to zero-products result. Possible values are:
For not multi-choice view types you can add an Additional GET parameter. That's might
be helpful if there is another filtering plugin on your site and you want to pass queried values
from the Step Filter to it on the result page. For example, you can add a "category_id"
additional parameter for the category filter type to have it as
&category_id={requested_value} in the URL of the result page.
As the Number between view type has two result values you can define two keys separated by the "|" symbol.
For attribute / tag / category filter types also possible to change an Additional GET parameter term source to define what term property will be used as a value of the GET parameter. Currently, possible values are ID/Slug/Name.
Not-numeric views with attribute / tag / category filter types have a possibility to Show count of products near the value name.
Radio / checkbox / select view types with attribute / tag / category filter types there is a possibility to Include/exclude specific terms define them by IDs separated by a comma. Also, this is possible to Hide empty terms for them.
Multi-choice view types have their own settings bundle. This is possible to choose which of 4 possible values will be used for the question, set their order and change captions.
Image view types thumbnails alignment and thumbnail size settings. Thumbnail size setting supports inline size names registered on the site.
There is a possibility to make any question invisible in the filter until of firing of some dependency. Use the Dependencies settings table for this. Select another question in the dropdown, then select its value in the next field and the comparison operator. Then this question will be visible only then this dependency will be met.
If you need to make more complex dependency then add more dependency rows in the table and define relations between them.
If you have a couple of different filters with different questions (for example, one in a page body and the second in a sidebar) you can pass the value from one question to another using the Bind with question setting. To make this binding both directions set this setting for both bonded questions.
You can create any type question and use it in a filter but ignore it while filtering the results. The question might affects the dependencies and statistics but not the results.
This is necessary to choose one product attribute as a source of the values.
Filtering with the Numeric view will work correctly only with the numeric values of the attribute. Attribute value names will be used as float values.
All other settings depend on the selected view type.
Price filtering can have only a numeric view and have no extra-settings except the numeric's.
Min and max prices of the products will be used as a range.
With category type the question will have product categories as values.
You can define Category parent setting to get sub-categories by this category only.
If you need to output only specific sub-categories levels or limit max categories tree depth use Start from categories level and Max sub-categories level. But keep in mind the max sub-categories level setting can't be less than start from categories level setting
All other settings depend on the selected view type.
Manual filter type allows to create and configure each possible value you need in the question.
Click on the Add a value button to add a row with settings.
Each value could have the settings:
In the value source modal you can select one of the values:
The Meta key setting is required for this type of filtering. Place a string to it and the question will collect all of the possible values of this meta key of products and then use them as the question's values.
For the numeric views the min and the max meta values will be used for the limits, but they should have numeric type.
First of all select a source of the steps. That might be just questions posts or question categories. For the second case, each step will output a few questions attached to a category at once.
Select created questions for using and change their order.
There are a few modes allowed:
This is possible to add extra query arguments which will be used while filtering the results. You can include/exclude specific products, categories, or product attributes in the filtering results.
After tuning all settings, copy the shortcode into any page content to output the filter.
Results URL should have a URL to a shop or category page or just "#" symbol to stay on the same page (for using as a widget).
Empty results URL setting will lead the user to a specific page if there are no filtering results by his request.
This is possible to Show results within the filter on the last step without a redirect to another page. This tab could have any title.
If you tick the Show preliminary results count setting there will be a tooltip shown on each question value change.
Also, you can limit the Maximum products number results.
This is possible to make an Instant redirect to the only result page for the paged results showing.
If you want to see the statistics of filter queries tick the Collect inquiries for statistic for this. You will see this statistic on a special plugin's page. This statistic doesn't collect any personal information.
This is possible to Scroll to top on the form update to let the user see the starting of the next question on submit. Also, there is the gap setting to not scroll the page too high.
Navigation items might have one of the Nav action on click - just go to the next step or submit and go next.
Select one of Nav view values to change the navigation view.
Use the post content as a description of the first step. If you need this, check the Enable description tab setting. To change the step title, change the description tab title setting.
You can enable/disable the value list showing within the filter or on the shop page.
With the last settings group you can select and rename filter controls and change some their behavior.
To collect a filter's requests statistic don't forget to tick the appropriate setting of the filter behavior settings group.
After go to the WooCommerce - SF Inquiries page and select the required filter in the upper dropdown. You will see all filter questions with their values. Each value will have the label, percentage of all requests, and number of requests. The bar height of the value indicates the percentage of all requests.
Lower the chart you can find each inquiry with its date, results number, and requested values. You even can see what products there found according to the user's request. Click the results number link to see the admin page with the appropriate products.
All inquiries can be terminated using the special lower button.
You can choose what styles should be included from the plugin.
If for some reasons you need to disable some of plugin's scripts, change Scripts including type setting to "Multiple files" and de-select them in the list lower.
Sometimes server's configuration might have problems with storing sessions. For example, if the filter can't go next thought the steps or loses the answers on the page update. In this case tick "Store session in the DB" setting which works much reliable but probably a little bit slower.
If you want to customize some views of the plugin and don't lose these changes while updating the plugin create "woocommerce-step-filter" folder in your active theme directory and copy into it files from the plugin's "views" directory saving the sub-directory hierarchy.
The plugin trying to get a view from the theme at first, and if it doesn't find this view, it gets the view from itself directory.