Integrate S&F Pro with ACF

Anonymous

#66045

Hi.

I’m currently building a search page using S&F Pro together with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.

S&F needs to filter through post meta which comes from a repeater field in the ACF plugin. ACF creates a new post meta field for each added repeater field added to the post. This creates a problem as I cannot filter by a specific post meta.

Are you able to assist with other plugin integrations?
My proposed solution would be to alter the query before it runs to see which repeater field is being queried and then adjust the post meta accordingly. Could you assist as to which filter/action in S&F I could use for this?

If you have any solution, I would greatly appreciate this. If you have any questions, please give me a shout.

Trevor

#66211

S&F has never supported repeater fields (its on the todo list), but essentially I don’t think S&F is actually able to index the data from repeater fields at all and I don’t think S&F can support repeater fields whatsoever in its current form. The next release of S&F that is due for release shortly WILL extend support to relationship fields, but I think that is as far as we can go for now.

Anonymous

#66235

Hi.

Thanks for your reply.

Is there filter I could use before the query runs? I’m thinking of checking which repeater field I need (based on user input) and then set the post meta field accordingly?

Trevor

#66241

Hi Marcus

Aside from these documented, I do not know. Here:

https://www.designsandcode.com/wordpress-plugins/search-filter-pro/faqs/

and here:

https://www.designsandcode.com/documentation/search-filter-pro/action-filter-reference/

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