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  • Anonymous
    (Private)  September 1, 2020 at 12:17 am #257884

    Hi, I’m new to Search & Filter Pro. I have created two post types “Products” and “solutions” A product will have a taxonomy that relates it to a solution. On the solutions page I want to show related products.

    My idea was to use this plugin and then have an ACF field “related_category” that the user would pick to show related products to that solution when creating the post. I’m running into two problems:

    1. I don’t want to create a filter for each solution. I want it to be the same for all solutions and the only change (dynamically) would be the category via the chosen ACF.

    2. I want to set the filter to be equal to the value of the ACF category chosen.

    Is this possible?

    Trevor
    (Private)  September 1, 2020 at 3:59 pm #257968
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    Anonymous
    (Private)  September 1, 2020 at 6:56 pm #258014
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    Trevor
    (Private)  September 2, 2020 at 3:39 pm #258178
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    Trevor
    (Private)  September 2, 2020 at 7:22 pm #258226
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    Trevor
    (Private)  September 7, 2020 at 12:27 pm #258614
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    Ross Moderator
    (Private)  September 8, 2020 at 5:27 pm #258808
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    Anonymous
    (Private)  September 8, 2020 at 5:27 pm #258810

    Hey Trevor, I couldn’t get it work the way I wanted either. I coded a WPQuery to do the job and a custom function to output the HTML and the data.

    For future releases, this would be a great feature for developers to be able to assign a related post type via ACF and add the search to a custom post type template via page builder and then that could be populated dynamically based on the post type and ACF field of related posts.

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