To answer these questions in turn.
a. Best Buy are big enough to be able to afford to pay a lot of money for a feature like this. It could be done if our forms stored searches in cookies on the user’s computer. That would require the user’s permission of course, and the use or availability of transients. I believe we will be introducing the availability to use transients in V3 (due in a few months).
b. Assuming that you use the WooCommerce display results method (the most logical), you are restricted to one form on the site per post type. So, you must have one form with all attribute/taxonomy type fields, and use Custom CSS based on the body class names (in WooCommerce you will see each taxonomy archive page has different classes to identify the taxonomy type) to hide/reveal fields.
c. This is not possible, but, if the radio buttons are for the Category (TV or Water Cooler), and the form is set up correctly, clicking on, say, ‘Water Cooler’ would take you to the Water Cooler (taxonomy archive) page.
d. You can set checkboxes to be multiselect, but, until V3 comes out, you cannot have checkboxes inside a dropdown.
I am not sure what you mean in e? Could you explain further?
Note, it is very important to note that each field in the form should have a different (its own) source. You cannot, for example, place Product Category (a type Taxonomy) more than once in the form. So, if you have groups of terms inside Product Category, they must instead be moved to their own custom taxonomy (for example, Screen Size).
AnonymousInactive
Hi, I bought the plugin today and must say I’m impressed. This came up on an obscure page, I’m surprised I didn’t find this plugin earlier.
I have a woocommerce site and am trying to make the search work like Best Buy. http://www.bestbuy.com
a) Generic search bar on top of page that has history of search results – how does one get the history and show it as a dropdown
b) My categories have linked taxonomy. For example, Categories are TV and Water Cooler. Screen Size doesn’t make sense for Water Cooler and Dispenser Type doesn’t make sense for TV. There are two ways to approach this (1) Make a generic search page with all taxonomies and have the non-relevant taxonomies disappear (header and all) based on search result, or (2) Make separate pages for each category with their relevant taxonomies, and based on search, bring up the relevant page. Which approach is possible with this plugin and how can one go about it?
c) Instead of radio buttons, format the list as links
d) Have multi-select as a series of checkboxes instead of a dropdown.
Finally if this is even possible,
e) If search results are from multiple categories, show results from only 1 category with option to display results from other categories.
Thanks in advance for your inputs.
AnonymousInactive
I believe I’ve followed the WooCommerce instructions faithfully. I created a search that included the search and two taxonomy filters set to products category and products tag, and set the display of that search to WooCommerce. Then I created the WooCommerce products page by inserting [products] into the page, and setting that page as the shop page in WooCommerce’s Settings. I then inserted the S&FPro widget into a sidebar that I added to that page through my theme settings.
The search looks just right, even including how many products have each category or tag. But when I click on the checkbox for any of the filters it… well, right now it actually doesn’t do anything. Shoot. It had been giving me a 404 error (I tried disabling the modify-URL option, and reenabling, but it didn’t seem to have any effect), but then I loaded the rest of my eighty products, and now it’s not apparently even trying to filter them on click, or search them either.
Any ideas what could be going on? As a side note, I got S&FPro to work just fine to filter and search regular posts using the dual shortcodes method, but that method doesn’t work with WooCommerce, huh? At least, I couldn’t get it to work that way.
Any suggestions?
What I think you want cannot, yet, be done, on the results page. We have received feature requests to allow the one form to be broken into parts to be placed (and styled) in different places (and differently styled) on the page.
We have taken those requests on board for our forthcoming V3 (which we hope to release in summer 2020 – but that may flex a little as we polish the code and UI). For example, you might have a form in WooCommerce that has a Search Box (text field), a Sort Order drop down, and then other fields (Product Categories, Product Tags, Variations, etc). You will be able to place the Search Box in the header, and the Sort Order above the products, and the rest of the form in the sidebar.
But, that is not possible right now, sorry.
Please note that we are now near to closing for the day as it is late afternoon here in the UK, so my next reply may not be until tomorrow.
I am thinking that the forms are conflicting with each other, as they are all applied to Products. So, a field may not work because that field may be missing on another form.
It would be far better to have one form with all that you need on, set to WooCommerce mode, and use CSS to hide/show fields on different pages. The body tag on WooCommerce has a number of class names that you can use to target such custom CSS.
AnonymousInactive
Yes, this is because I have a different search form for every WooCommerce category. And also, this behaviour remains the same even if I change the Display Results method to ‘WooCommerce Shop’.
The first problem that I can see appears to be the choice of Display Results method, which is set to ‘Custom’, and yet this appears to be a WooCommerce search?
AnonymousInactive
I like to display and search all woocommerce orders on a private page. So my client can filter and edit them as a CRM system. I can select the orders in the general tab and paid status by display results but i doesn’t find any orders on my show results by shortcode page.
No customizations in my test envoirement. Hope you can help.
Thanks in advance,
Noraly
AnonymousInactive
Yes Trever，can I add a field nunber into woocommerce product with custom field plugin，it seems I can only add field for a new Custom post type created by CPT UI？
Cheers
Xiaoli
You woukld need to add a ‘Number’ Custom field, for example using a plugin like the free Advanced Custom Fields plugin. It can’t be in Tag, Category. I assume you are using WooCommerce products?
