As your online store starts to grow, the number of products you sell will likely start to increase as well. And when that happens, it can become difficult to ensure that your potential customers have easy access to all these products. This is the moment when most online store owners turn to WooCommerce search filters for help.
Let’s say you run a women’s clothing and accessories store that offers new trending products every season. Combine this with different items you might want to offer – pants, skirts, leggings, bags, glasses, whatever you have on hand. Then you need to showcase products in different materials, colors, price ranges, and the list goes on. See how the number of products and their variations can grow quite easily and browsing can become very cumbersome. This is exactly why Search filters are a great solution if you have a lot of products in your catalog.
Fortunately, if you have a WooCommerce powered store, it’s pretty easy to set up search filters for your products. There is also a default WooCommerce filter function that includes some of the most common filtering options to get a much wider range of options and more possibilities to view your filters in general. we recommend using a suitable search filter plugin. This time we will show you Easily add and customize search filters in WooCommerce using a free pluginso be sure to keep reading to know all the necessary steps:
public speaking, search filters represent a useful search function that focuses specifically on your products. By adding this type of functionality to your store, your visitors will be able to easily navigate through the different types of products you have put in. This is because product filters allow them to narrow their search until they find and see only the products they are particularly interested in. And there are many different ways to use these filters – you can filter products by price, by category. , tags, rating and even size, colors, gender, material etc.
By helping people easily find products that meet certain criteria, you greatly improve their user experience and also improve the entire shopping process. Naturally, this can lead to more customers who only really want to buy your products. In addition, with a seamless product browsing experience, you can strengthen the trust of your customers and get them to come back to your store to shop for more products.
So, without further ado, let’s see how you can easily incorporate this product search functionality into your WooCommerce store and greatly improve your customers’ user experience.
If you plan to apply search filters to your WooCommerce store, a great way to do this is to use a plugin called Product Filter (by WooBeWoo). This free plugin allows your customers to customize your products by price, tags, features, categories, etc. It allows you to easily filter by different criteria such as
The great thing about this plugin is that all available criteria are fully customizable, allowing you to set the filters for your products that best suit your (and your customers’) needs. Also, you can set your filters as radio button list, checkbox list, dropdown list, etc. You can view it in various ways, such as Also, as you add your filters, live preview functionality. Adding filters to your pages is also pretty simple – you can add them using a shortcode or even add them to your page’s sidebar with the help of a widget.
After installing and activating the plugin, you should gain access. Woo Product Filter >> Add New Filter.
Enter the name you want for your filter, and then click it. save.
When you do this, you will be able to instantly select all the filters you want to add to your search filter item.
Simply select the filter you want from the drop-down list and then click Add.
Some of the available options are Price/Price Range, Sort by, Sort by Product categories/tags, Attribute, Rating, On Sale etc.
For example, if you add a price filter, you can change its title and add a description. Then you can also edit all the other useful settings that become available when you open the drop-down menu using the arrow.
Some of the options here include: show input fields for price, choose the way you want the currency to be displayed as well as its location, set minimum/maximum prices (an option available in the professional version of the plugin) and more.
As long as you customize your filter option, You can see a preview on the right side of the screen.
New items will be added to this screen as you add more filters. For example, when you also add a rating filter, your filter might look like this.
For promotional purposes, we’ve decided to add a few more filters such as “features”, “stock availability” and “product categories”.
After customizing each filter to your liking, access the “options” tab where you can further customize the way your filters are displayed on your site
For example, do you use your filters on all WooCommerce pages, only on your Shop page, on your product page, etc. You can choose whether you want to view it or not. Also, set the filters to the number of products you want displayed on all devices or desktop/mobile only, enable Ajax etc.
there is also Design tab lets you set things like the filter width you want, add custom CSS/JS styling, etc. allows.
Once you are satisfied with all your changes, shoot me save button located in the upper right corner of the page.
When you’re done setting up your search product filter, all you have to do is add it to your page. There are a few different ways you can do this.
To add your filter with a shortcode, just copy the shortcode above all your filter options.
Next, access the page where you want to add your filters and Paste the shortcode into the “shortcode” block.
Press Preview to see what your product filter looks like on your page.
You can also easily add your price filters to a widget area using the price filter widget.
To do this, head Appearance >> Widgets and find and select Woo Product Filter Vehicle. Then add it to the desired widget area.
To learn more about how to add block widgets in WordPress, be sure to check out our article covering the same topic.
Finally, here’s how our product filter widget looks on our Store page.
Wrapping the Jobs
WooCommerce search filters can be a great addition to any eCommerce site as they can only help your store as a whole look more professional, organized and user friendly. As a result, you can only build a positive reputation among your customers and increase sales in the long run.
One of the easiest ways to set up search filters on your WooCommerce site is to do so with a suitable plugin. We recommend using a plugin called Product Filter because it not only comes with great options available for free, but is also very flexible when it comes to customizing and styling your filters the way you want. After following our instructions on how to set up and create your filter, be sure to check out all the other options available until you find the best combination of filters for your store.
