If you have a lot of products in your store, a faceted search can help customers find what they’re looking for much faster and easier. The app implements the faceted search via the Filters feature. This feature allows you to display and apply various product filters on the search results or collection page.
You can view and adjust Filters in the Searchanise Search & Filter control panel > Filters > Filter list section.
Learn what is a faceted search (faceted navigation), how it works, and the top benefits and best practices of this feature for e-commerce. |
Adding Filters
There are ready-made filters with the most common product attributes like price, vendor, availability, collection, etc. You can create as many filters as you would like:
- Filters by variant options
- Filters by metafields
- Filters by tag prefixes
- Custom filters
- Filter by locations
Hiding Filters
You can find the instructions on how to hide filters here.
You can also hide particular filter values:
- Go to Filters > Filter list > Filters tab.
- Click the pencil icon next to the filter you want to edit. The list of filter values will be opened.
- Change the status of value(s) you want to hide from Active to Hidden.
- Save the changes.
Renaming Filters
You can edit the titles of filters and the names of filter values.
To edit the titles of filters, follow these steps:
- Go to the Filters > Filter list > Filters tab.
- Click the pencil icon next to the filter you want to edit.
- Go to the Settings tab.
- Edit the title in the Filter title field.
- Save the changes.
That’s it. You can now go to the storefront if you’d like to ensure the filters’ titles are up-to-date.
To edit the names of filter values, follow these steps:
- Go to the Filters > Filter list > Filters tab.
- Click the pencil icon next to the filter you want to edit. The list of filter values will be opened.
- Edit the name(s) in the Display name column.
- Save the changes.
Changing Filters’ values appearance
You can choose the appearance of filter values in the Appearance option:
- Default – values as text
- Color – color values as color swatches
- Size – size values as text in frames
Follow these steps:
- Go to the Filters > Filter list > Filters tab.
- Click the pencil icon next to the filter you want to edit.
- Go to the Settings tab, and select the look in the Appearance option.
- Apply the changes.
Setting up Color and Size Filters
You can find the instructions for setting up color and size filters here.
Managing the number of visible values
You can set the number of filter values visible on the filters’ left-hand side. If the actual number of filter values exceeds this number, the Show more button will be displayed.
To manage the number of filter values, follow these steps:
- Go to Filters > Filter list > Filters tab.
- Click the pencil icon next to the filter you want to edit.
- Go to the Settings tab.
- Set the number of values displayed by default in the More count option.
NoteIf you set More count to 0, all filter values will be displayed in the sidebar.
- Save the changes.
Sorting Filters
You can change the filters’ position for each of your Filter trees (Filters > Filters on Collections > Filter trees).
Bulk editing Filters
You can edit the Status and Position of filters in the settings of their Filter trees.
You can edit the settings of several filters at once. To do so, follow these steps:
- Go to the Filters > Filter list > Filters tab.
- By default, it is shown 20 filters per page. If you want to show and edit more, change the value in the Display drop-down list above the table.
- Select the checkbox in the table’s header or select certain filters.
- Click the appeared Edit selected button.
- Select the values of the fields you want to set for the selected filters and click the Update button.
That’s it. The changes are now applied to selected filters.