Title: Complex search filtering
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Complex search filtering

 *  [joelmb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelmb/)
 * (@joelmb)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complex-search-filtering/)
 * I need to be able to have complex filtering where users can select different 
   options to filter displayed list results, eg:
 * Show users who only have:
    Blonde/black/red hair (+other options) Are from London/
   birmingham/edinburgh (+other locations) Have a car/bike/motorbike (+other options)
 * …Etc. Several more attributes like that. So there would be multiple possible 
   filter chains needing to be applied. I saw your chaining filters comments but
   it would be very impossibly lengthy to create hundreds of separate list pages
   for every connotation eg ‘black hair+london+car’ etc.
 * So is there something I havent seen that would allow me to do this?
    Having this
   ability is critical to me using the plug-in.
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 *  Plugin Author [xnau webdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complex-search-filtering/#post-4651046)
 * Ah, this question looks familiar…as I mentioned, this requires a developer to
   write a custom search function.
 *  [jspain500](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jspain500/)
 * (@jspain500)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complex-search-filtering/#post-4651273)
 * xnau, I need this exact same functionality. Is this something that I could hire
   you to do?
 *  Plugin Author [xnau webdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complex-search-filtering/#post-4651274)
 * I’m not taking any side work at this time. Any skilled WP developer should be
   able to handle this, there is an API that gives you easy access to the filtering
   functions.
 *  [Mt Boychick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtboychick/)
 * (@mtboychick)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complex-search-filtering/#post-4651277)
 * Looks like we can’t get complex search and filtering anytime soon. I really wanted
   to work with this plugin but need this feature and couldn’t find any way to make
   it work.
 * Finely I’ve found this [http://formidablepro.com](http://formidablepro.com). 
   it’s not free ($50.) but gives me all the search features I need.
 * I’ll keep you all posted about my progress with it.
 * Thanks
 * Mt

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