Future of AJAX category filters for EDD products?

  • kidznc

    (@wsp-kk)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    This is not as much a support question as much as curiosity as to whether AJAX category filtering has ever been considered for EDD.

    Case in point, I’m presently working with a set of items in EDD which are divided across four minisites in the same WordPress installation. Separating these items per minisite is simple enough with individual categories for each site.

    For better or worse though, these downloads – ideally – should be filterable by category within each those individual minisites.

    Unlike common drop-down menus, I’m envisioning something similar to the portfolio template from the Avada theme, as seen here:
    http://theme-fusion.com/avada/4-column-text/

    Even though my knowledge of PHP is next to nil (in comparison with HTML/CSS), I’ve gone to the extent of attempting to modify the Avada code into shortcodes.php – changing portfolio_category to download_category. My kludge seems to halfway work, but the code won’t recognize the download categories (nor will the AJAX function run). It does spit out the necessary HTML though.

    Honestly, EDD is really the only system that I’ve found that does what I need it to do up to this point, so I’m going to use it regardless of this feature’s existence, but I’d be very curious if such a feature has ever been considered for a future release or extension.

    Thanks again, Pippin!

    -Kurt

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/

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  • Plugin Contributor Pippin Williamson

    (@mordauk)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    We have considered it but ultimately chose not to add it ourselves as there is a really, really superb plugin that works excellently. Take a look at FacetWP.

    Thread Starter kidznc

    (@wsp-kk)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks, Pippin.

    Unfortunately, the FacetWP sidebar and commands (at least those shown in the demo) do not work that well for our needs.

    The small, horizontal menu bar setup is pretty much the most intuitive design for the users of our site. I’ll keep playing with the .PHP to see if I can make it work.

    Best,

    -Kurt

    Plugin Contributor Pippin Williamson

    (@mordauk)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    That’s just the demo display. It can be displayed in other ways as well.

    Thread Starter kidznc

    (@wsp-kk)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Good to know.

    In the meantime, I was able to shoehorn the Avada code into the plugin. It’s functional, but I’m having a bit of trouble with $category_tax_slug not writing the proper category for each download entry.

    No matter; I’ll figure it out.

    Thanks again!

    -Kurt

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