ACE Content Filters – AJAX Filters for Site Content

Description

ACE Content Filters gives you a practical way to filter site content — posts, pages, and custom post types — with saved filter sets, reusable panels, AJAX updates, and shareable URLs. You can also add instant content search to headers, homepages, and landing pages.

Use it for blogs and magazines, portfolios, directories, events, courses, jobs, real estate listings, knowledge bases, case studies, team listings, recipes, or any CPT-driven site.

Create saved filter sets for taxonomies, search, author, and date. Style them to match your site, then place them individually or inside reusable filter panels. When visitors should jump straight to an item instead of narrowing a listing, add a dedicated Content search: typeahead matching on title and optional excerpt, with a dropdown that shows image, title, excerpt, and content type.

Instant content search

• Separate dashboard object — not mixed into filter sets or panels
• Own shortcode: [acewpcf_content_search id="..."]
• Own Elementor widget: ACE Content Search
• Typeahead dropdown with image, title, excerpt, and optional content-type label
• Match by title and/or excerpt, with debounce and a “View all” link to site search results for that content type
• Optional scope limit: keep a search box inside chosen taxonomies for the selected content type
• Full appearance controls for the search box and dropdown so it matches your site branding

Filters and panels

• Unlimited saved filter sets for categories, tags, and custom taxonomies
• Search, author, and date filters that work together with taxonomy filters
• Saved filter panels for sidebars, top bars, and grouped layouts
• AJAX filtering with a shared results selector, URL filter state, and browser history
• Single-select and multi-select, with optional AND or OR matching
• Auto-include child terms when a parent is selected, plus optional nested term indentation
• Changeable shortcode IDs for saved filter sets and filter panels
• Content counts and labels, with static or contextual count modes and optional panel-wide overrides
• Hide terms with no matching content, per filter or as a panel override
• In-filter term search for long lists, with a search box option and a panel override
• Colour swatches for any taxonomy filter
• Panel headings, grouped heading blocks inside panels, and collapsible filters
• Empty-results messaging
• Horizontal or vertical layout, plus styling controls including responsive and mobile presentation
• Live appearance preview in the filter editor
• Theme-font inheritance by default, with optional Google Fonts loading
• Mobile panel toggle, close button, and per-panel text for the Filters label and Clear all action
• Elementor widgets for saved filters, panels, and content search, plus shortcode placement

For WooCommerce stores, ACE Product Filters is a separate free plugin built specifically for product catalogs — category, attribute, taxonomy, and price filters with WooCommerce-aware queries and storefront-specific features not found here. You can find it at https://wordpress.org/plugins/ace-products-filters/

Usage

1. Create a filter set and choose the content type (posts, pages, or a custom post type).
2. Choose a source: categories, tags, custom taxonomy, search, author, or date.
3. Configure behavior, labels, counts, layout direction, and design settings.
4. Enable AJAX when you want in-place content updates and set one shared results selector.
5. Place the saved filter directly, or create a filter panel and combine multiple saved filters into one reusable block.
6. Create a Content search when you need a header or homepage typeahead that opens a single item.

Shortcodes:

• [acewpcf_filter id="your-filter-id"]
• [acewpcf_filter_panel id="your-panel-id"]
• [acewpcf_content_search id="your-search-id"]

Instant content search

1. Open ACE Content Filters and create a Content search.
2. Choose the content type, matching (title and/or excerpt), optionally limit results to selected terms, then set dropdown content and appearance.
3. Place it with [acewpcf_content_search id="your-id"] or the ACE Content Search Elementor widget.

Visitors type a title (or excerpt), pick a match from the dropdown, and go straight to that item. Optional “View all” opens site search results for the selected content type. This does not filter a listing grid, and it is separate from the Search filter source and from in-filter term search inside long filter lists.

External services

ACE Content Filters can optionally load Google Fonts stylesheets only when a site owner enables Google Fonts loading in the plugin settings and uses Google Font families in filter designs, content search designs, or live preview.

By default, ACE Content Filters does not request Google Fonts on the frontend or in the plugin admin.

These requests can happen on ACE Content Filters admin pages and on frontend pages where ACE Content Filters output is rendered.

Service provider:

• Google Fonts API: https://fonts.googleapis.com/
• Google Fonts static files: https://fonts.gstatic.com/

What may be sent:

• The site visitor or admin user’s IP address
• Browser and device information
• The requesting site URL through normal HTTP request metadata

Service terms and policies:

• Google Fonts Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/fonts/terms
• Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy