annasta Filters for WooCommerce

annasta Filters for WooCommerce provide the fast and flexible search through the products of your shop. Our free plugin offers a plenitude of premium features, including the product Categories, Tags, WooCommerce product attributes, custom product taxonomy and product meta data filters support. Enjoy the rich customization options of the dedicated Customizer section, custom filter icons and color box styles, built-in infinite scroll and button-controlled offcanvas sidebar options, step-by-step product finders, SEO options, caching-enhanced performance, and more!

Visit the annasta Filters Demo Site to see the plugin in action.

Use the versatile controls of the filters’ admin interface to fine-tune the plugin to the needs of your site. Please visit the plugin support page for help with the initial setup and further adjustments.

Plugin Features Highlights

• Use the annasta Filters Guttenberg block, shortcode, widget, or a WooCommerce hook to insert the filters into a sidebar, header, or other elements of your site. To change the initial off-canvas sidebar behavior, customize the Visibility of the pre-installed preset.
• Our plugin will filter the WooCommerce shop and archives (product category / tag / brand pages), and can also be set up to work with the WooCommerce [products] shortcodes. On any other page of your site the filters will act as links to the corresponding filtered results of the main WooCommerce shop page.
• Control the pages on which you wish to display your filters, display different filter sets for different categories / brands / tags (multiple presets are available in the premium version).
• Try the annasta dedicated AJAX mode for even faster AJAX filtering.
• URL filters: whenever needed (for SEO or other reasons), setup your filters as HTML hyperlinks.
• URL updates and browser Back and Forward navigation support is implemented in all our WooCommerce AJAX filter modes.
• NEW! URL rewrite options allow turning filtering parameters into permalinks.
• SEO options include the dynamic page and shop titles updates, auto-insertion of canonical links for filtered pages, addition of rel=”nofollow” to filters’ tags, as well as auto-generation of meta description tags from combinations of currently active filters.
• Step-by-step filters style with extensive settings allows the creation of product finders, with or without redirects.
• Variable products stock status support.
• Suggestions autocomplete option is available for the annasta products string search control.
• Built-in AJAX pagination options for your WooCommerce shop include Infinite scroll, AJAX-driven page numbers, and Load More button next page loads.
• Responsive display options provide the filters display depending on device screen width (read about the Visibility setting).
• Preset visibility modes controlled by “Filters” toggle button will open your filters in a popup (offcanvas) sidebar or under the toggle button.
• WPML support
• Elementor compatibility

Filters

• WooCommerce product taxonomy filters: create filters out of any built-in WooCommerce taxonomy (product categories, tags), WooCommerce product attributes of your choice (size, color, gender), or a custom WooCommerce taxonomy (brands, countries of origin etc).
• Our Products price filter can be styled as a range slider or a list of predefined price ranges. Dynamic min/max price slider values can be enabled in plugin options.
• The annasta products string search control will combine the results retrieved by the WooCommerce search engine with the currently selected filters. Relevanssi and Advanced Woo Search engines support can also be enabled for annasta search controls.
• Stock availability filter will display WooCommerce products by their stock status: in stock, out of stock, or backordered. Stock status filtering for the variable products can be enabled with the help of the Stock filter variations support beta option.
• Products rating filter will display WooCommerce products by rating ranges, e.g. 0 – 1, …, 2 – 3, 4 – 5 stars.
• Featured products filter will limit results to the products that are marked as featured.
• On sale filter will limit the filtered results to the products that have sale price.
• Product meta data filters: create filters out of WooCommerce product meta data, such as length, width, date, or any custom meta fields.
• Products per page control will let your shop visitors select the desired amount of products per page.
• Products sort by control allows the addition of products sorting (order by) options to your annasta Filters presets, and will provide full support for the URL or AJAX sorting of your WooCommerce shop.

Filters customization

• Multiple / single item selection.
• Range selection for the prices, rating and meta data filters. Range support for the taxonomy filters is available in the premium version.
• Datepicker control for date and time products metadata filters, with single date and dates range selection support.
• Use the Filter items control setting to exclude the unneeded filtering terms, manualy select the needed filtering options, or for the dynamic display of the currently selected options and their sub-levels (subcategories).
• Enable button submission for separate filters.
• Active filters badges (collectors) are available for the whole set of filters (preset), and on the single filter level.
• Clear all filters (“Reset all”) button can be enabled for all the filters of the preset and each filter separately (in the premium version).
• Collapsible filters enable the toggle buttons that allow to open or collapse the lists of filtering options. Dropdowns (JavaScript-powered select boxes) are provided by the premium version of the plugin.
• Hierarchical levels display control.
• Hierarchical children (subcategories) display and collapse: hide/display/toggle the sub-levels of a WooCommerce filter created out of hierarchical taxonomy.
• Dynamic product counts display is supported in all the taxonomy-based filters. Zero count results concealment option is available in the premium version.
• Customizable filter icons with hover state support (any Font Awesome Free icon of your choice) can be set up directly through the filter admin interface.
• Color boxes filter style for the color attributes.
• Modify filters appearance, such as fonts, colors, borders and margins in the annasta Filters section of WordPress Customizer (Appearance > Customize > annasta Filters).

Under the hood

• To maximize the speed and increase the compatibility with the rest of your WooCommerce shop architecture, this plugin has been carefully designed to make the most of the native WordPress and WooCommerce APIs.
• Caching is used to increase the speed of page loads.
• Our plugin is translations-ready. Please, let us know if you wish to share a translation to your language with the community!

This plugin has been tested up to the PHP version 8.3

We are committed to further improving the users’ experience with our filters for WooCommerce shops, so any feedback, or bugs / problems reports are very much welcome and will receive our careful consideration!

Support

• Documentation
• Getting started tutorial
• Troubleshoot Guide
• Ask your questions on the plugin Support Forum

Credits

• jQuery UI
• noUiSlider
• wNumb
• perfect-scrollbar
• Date Range Picker
• Moment.js
• Alpha Color Picker
• Font Awesome 5 Free
• Google Fonts