Hide zero count terms?

  • Resolved James

    (@james-feaver)


    1 week, 5 days ago

    Hi Stefano,

    I am still enjoying the plugin and am really pleased with it.

    On my shop page I use a filter panel with sets for category and tag both using AJAX. Checking it on my phone yesterday, when I chose a category, I thought my list of tags was rather long making it a bit more time-consuming for a user to scan the results (desktop screen – https://prnt.sc/nq_ljXNnW6z9). Using the category books as an example, I then have 21 tags, but in this case, only 6 are non-zero. In my opinion, usability would be better if after a category is chosen, if an option requests it, any tags with 0 are hidden. A mock-up of this is https://prnt.sc/swzra2wY1eez (1 tag not shown).

    I’ve taken a good look at the current settings and can’t see this (apologies if it is there). Might it be a possible future feature?

    Thanks,

    James

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  • Plugin Author Stefano Papa | Ace Plugins

    (@acewpdev)

    1 week, 5 days ago

    Hi James,

    Thank you again for another great suggestion, and I’m really glad to hear you’re still enjoying the plugin!

    Yes, you are absolutely right about this. The current Contextual Counts update the numbers after selecting a category, but the terms with 0 are still displayed, so I agree that being able to hide those options would make the filter much cleaner and easier to scan, especially on mobile.

    I’ve had a look at it and I’ll work on adding an option to hide terms with no matching products. It should be quite a contained change, so I’ll aim to include it in the next update.

    And thanks again for taking the time to send these suggestions 🙂

    Since I’m going to be working on the next update, I’d also be interested to hear what you think about the recent changes to the dashboard and overall UI. Any feedback on things you like, don’t like, or would change would be very welcome.

    And if you’ve come across any other features that you think would be useful, feel free to send them my way. Since I’ll already be working on this update, it will be a good opportunity to consider adding some other useful improvements at the same time.

    Thanks again!

    Stefano

    Thread Starter James

    (@james-feaver)

    1 week, 5 days ago

    Hi Stefano,

    Thanks for the reply and pleased to hear that you like my suggestion and can accommodate it.

    I like the UI design – nice, clean, and modern. The recent changes to the dashboard were positive. You cover every base with the options – behaviour, colours, wordings etc. You remove the need for anyone to have to add any CSS which makes it easier for less technical users. Though, to be honest, I largely use default settings.

    I do like the way you separate filter sets and filter panels. It allows reuse which means efficient management and avoiding duplicated effort. I only use categories and tags so haven’t been into attributes (colour etc) or a price filter. I know other filter plugins have swatches, options of images etc. so my requirements are fairly simple.

    Keep up the good work!

    James

    Plugin Author Stefano Papa | Ace Plugins

    (@acewpdev)

    1 week, 5 days ago

    Hi James,

    Thank you again for the feedback! It’s been really helpful, especially having someone actually using the plugin and sharing how you use it and what you think could make it better 🙂

    I’ve just pushed a new update, and I actually ended up adding a few things based on your suggestions:

    • Hide empty terms — exactly as you suggested, you can now choose to hide terms with no matching products when using contextual counts.
    • In-filter search — I’ve added an optional search box that can be displayed at the top of each filter set, so users can quickly search for a specific category, tag, attribute, etc. when there are lots of options.
    • Color swatches — I really liked your idea here, so I went ahead and added support for displaying attribute terms as color swatches.

    I also liked the other ideas you mentioned, but I’ve put those on the roadmap for a later release as they require a bit more work. The three above were relatively contained additions, so I decided to include them in this quick update rather than making you wait. 🙂

    The update has already been pushed to WordPress.org and should be live and available for download within the next few hours.

    I’ll mark this support request as completed for now, but as always, if you notice anything else or have any other suggestions, feel free to let me know!

    Thanks again for all the input,

    Stefano

    Thread Starter James

    (@james-feaver)

    1 week, 4 days ago

    Hi Stefano,

    Happy to help.

    I’ve just loaded the new version and set Hide empty terms. It looks great and I think is really good for users.

    James

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