[Resolved] Add filter to existing view that filters by custom post type

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[heatherS]

I am trying to: add another filter so that users can filter 3 custom post types by a specific post type (White Papers, Videos, Articles).

I already have this search View set up so that users can filter by two post taxonomies: "Gender" and "Topic". Each custom post type has a content template, this is applied using conditional logic in the "Results" portion of the view.

The client now wants to add another filter so that will allow users to select between White Papers, VIdeos and Articles (the three custom post types), as well as Topics, and Gender.

So the goal is to have these as three dropdown filtering options. Is this possible?

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Hi Heather

You can add multiple filters to your Views parametric searches, but not post type, that option doesn't exist.

I think you have two options.

One involves a certain amount of duplication. You can add a custom field to your content to say what type it is, i.e. your videos would have a custom field "type = video" etc. You can then add a query filter for the custom field to your parametric search view.

The other alternative would require some custom coding and may become pretty contrived, and would involve using the PHP filter wpv_filter_query to intercept the query to add an argument for the post type and which would require you to build the UI for the post type selector where your parametric search appears.

If you want to write some custom code your time would probably be better spent writing a small snippet to automatically set the custom field for content type described above automatically when creating a new White Paper, Video, or Article.