Custom field filters with WPML

Anonymous

#30239

I try to use filters with my custom fields (with advanced custom fields) and it don’t work. All the meta variable are in double. Exemple « price » and « _price ».

All posts are in two languages working with WPML and i have two search forms for the languages as specified in the docs.

Version of plugins used :

Advanced Custom Fields: 5.3.2.2
WPML Multilingual CMS : 3.3
Search & Filter Pro : 2.0.3

Ross Moderator

#30248

Hey Patrick

There are a couple of things here to note.

First you must find the correct meta key to use.

Usually ACF creates two fields, one with teh under score _price and one without price.

ACF usually stores the value in price, the underscore version of that usually holds other information about the field but not the values we want to search.

Saying that though, WooCommerce for example will store its prices as _price – so you need to ensure you using the correct key.

Any easy way to test this to set you meta field to “choice”, set the correct meta key, and then use “auto suggest” – this will bring up the kind of values stored for the field.

Once you are using the correct meta key, then you need to make sure the cache finishes building before attempting to perform any searching/filtering.

Let me know when you’ve done the above and we can move on to the next steps.

Thanks

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