Hi Guys @onTheGo!
I hope, that I don't exceed the scope of your support. I would kindly ask you to help me to kickstart my development.
I am trying to build a parametric search/filtering system for WooCommerce products. This search or filter should not be like a typical search with dropdowns and so on. It should load products by different select boxes.
First it should load the results of a given product category (or taxononmy). Within this taxonomy the user should be able to choose between products for men and women (taxonomies) by a select box. Then the next group of selects, i.e. for colors, should be loaded by a view or within a slider. The colors themselves are taxonomies too. At the end, a view should show the single product page as a content template, so that the user can buy the product directly.
While parametric searches or filters generally lead to some products which match the parameters, this one should lead to a specific product providing a nice user experience. It's kind of a step by step filter.
I already read the docs, esp. about loading sub-taxonomies given by the parent taxonomy-filter. But I have problems to set things up correctly.
Basically I want to filter a given product category by some subfilters (1st gender, 2nd color and so on). The subfilters should be loaded via AJAX or within a Slider and lead in a step-by-step-manner to one specific product at the end.
I hope you got an idea of what I am trying to achieve.
So please give me some advice or refer to the corresponding docs, so that I am able to get this done.
Thank you very much in advance and kind regards!
mb
Hi mb,
First, sorry for the delay getting back to you. We were busier than usual today and this wait time is unusually long.
Dynamic hierarchical taxonomy searches like you are describing aren't currently built into Toolset, but they are on our developer's list of requested features. Unfortunately I do not have a timeframe for when they will be completed and available for you.
Currently, there is a workaround with parent/child relationships, see the live demo site:
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section "Search Houses", the drop-down menus "State" and "City"
To see the settings, you can setup your own demo site here:
http://discover-wp.com/register?site_type=713
More help:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-control-set
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-control-item
In order to achieve exactly what you have described, you would need to write custom code. We partner with independent contractors who would be able to give you professional help with this. Here is the list of our contractors:
https://toolset.com/consultant/
Please let me know if this anything else I can do to help.
