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🧩 Product Filters

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The ShopWell Addons includes a powerful and flexible filtering system built into a single widget:

ShopWell – Product Filter #

This widget allows you to add a variety of product filters to your sidebar or widget areas with a single block, keeping things organized and highly customizable.

Shopwell – Product Filter widget works only with product catalog pages.

🔄 Dynamic Filter Behavior #

You can change the type of filter displayed using the Filter By dropdown. Depending on your selection, additional configuration options become visible.

Available Filter Types: #

  • Group
  • Price
  • Attributes (Color, Size, etc.)
  • Rating
  • Product Status
  • Brands
  • Product Categories
  • Product Tags

🧙‍♂️ How to Use the Widget #

Add the Widget: #

  1. Go to Appearance → Widgets
  2. Drag and drop ShopWell – Product Filter into Catalog Sidebar widget area.
  3. Use the Filter By dropdown to select your desired filter type.
  4. Customize additional settings that appear below based on the selected filter.

🧪 Available Filter Types & Settings #

🔘 Filter by Group #

Display pre-defined filter groups.

  • Useful for grouping multiple filter types together under one name.
  • Configure in the filter widget panel.

💲 Filter by Price #

Display a price range using a slider or checkbox.

  • Settings:
    • Filter By: Price
    • Display type:
      • Slider
      • Ranges
    • Ranges: Enter each range ( separated by dash ‘-‘ ) in separate line. Do not include currency symbol. E.g.
      • 0 – 50
      • 50 – 100
      • 100 – 200
      • 200 – 500
      • 500 – 1000

🔢 Filter by Rating #

Let users filter by WooCommerce product ratings.

  • Ratings Displayed:
    • 5 Stars, 4 Stars, etc.
  • Choose to show counts or just stars.

📦 Filter by Product Status #

Enable filtering by special conditions like:

  • On Sale
  • Featured
  • In Stock / Out of Stock

Use checkboxes to enable or disable each option.

🏷️ Filter by Product Tags #

Users can filter by product tags you’ve assigned.

  • Choose the tags to include
  • Set order and display format

🧢 Filter by Brands #

Filter products by brand taxonomy (must be defined and assigned).

🗂️ Filter by Categories #

Display a list of product categories.

🎨 Filter by Attributes (e.g. Color) #

Great for filters like Color, Material, etc.

Options

  • Filter By : Select Attributes
  • Attribute: Select Color
  • Display Type: Select Auto

Setup Color Attribute: #

  1. Install and Activate WCBoost – Variation Swatches plugin.
  2. Go to Products → Attributes
  3. Create attribute (e.g. “Color”)
  4. Set type to Color
  5. Configure terms (e.g. Red, Blue, etc.) and assign color hex codes

📏 Filter by Size #

Similar to color, this attribute filter displays product sizes.

Setup Size Attribute: #

  1. Go to Products → Attributes
  2. Add a new attribute “Size”
  3. Set type to Label
  4. Define terms like S, M, L, XL, etc.

⚙️ Tips for Best Use #

  • Use multiple instances of the widget to display different filters together.
  • Combine Group Filter to organize others visually.
  • Assign attributes, brands, and tags to products properly to ensure filtering works.

The ShopWell – Product Filter widget makes your store easier to navigate and improves customer experience by enabling layered, AJAX-based filtering for WooCommerce.