Beautiful taxonomy filters

The Beautiful Taxonomy Filters plugin is an easy and good-looking way to provide your visitors with filtering for your post types. With this you get a complete solution for adding filtering based on custom taxonomy terms/categories/tags. It will also automatically add rewrite rules for pretty looking filter URLs. It’s completely automatic, works without javascript and is based on the WordPress Plugin boilerplate for a standardized, organized and object-oriented codebase. It uses select2 for pretty looking and user friendly dropdowns but will fall back to ordinary ones if javascript is not supported.
No more horrible looking URLs or hacky Javascript solutions

Features

• Activate filtering on any registered public custom post type.
• Exclude taxonomies you just don’t want the visitors to filter on.
• Beautifies the resulting URLs. You won’t see any /posttype/?taxonomy1=term. Instead you’ll see /posttype/taxonomy/term.
• The pretty URLs are much more SEO friendly so you’ll give a boost to those filtered pages. Just remember to use canonicals where it’s appropriate.
• BETA: Conditional dropdowns. Make sure your visitors never end up with empty filtered results. AJAX reloads the values in each dropdown based on previously selected values.
• Polylang compatible.
• Multisite compatible. No network settings at the moment.
• Comes with a complete functional filter module for you to put in your theme.
• Three alternatives for putting the filter modules in your theme:
  • Widgets (Also lets you “hard set” a post type for use anywhere)
  • do_action hooks (for granular control)
  • Automagic setting which will magically place the modules in your archive from thin air. Wizards at work…
  • A ”Clear all” link for the filter component.
  • Choose between placeholders or “show all” in the dropdowns.
  • Hide empty terms in the dropdowns.
  • Show a post count next to the term name
  • Disable select2
  • Show term description
  • Disable headings you don’t want
  • More to come!

  Languages

  • English
  • Swedish
  • Spanish (Thanks to Juan Javier Moreno Restituto)
  • Dutch (Thanks to Piet Bos)
  • German (Thanks to Matthias Bonnes)
  • French (Thanks to Brice Capobianco)
  • Simplified Chinese (Thanks to Amos Lee)
  • Portuguese (Thanks to Luis Martins)
  • Portuguese Brasil (Thanks to Bruno Sousa)
  • Catalan (Thanks to Maiol Xercavins)
  • Swiss (Thanks to Raphael Hüni)
  • Bulgarian (Thanks to Georgi Marokov)
  • Romanian (Thanks to Roberto Tamas)

  Do you want to translate this plugin to another language? I recommend using POEdit (http://poedit.net/) or if you prefer to do it straight from the WordPress admin interface (https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/). When you’re done, send us the file(s) to me@jonte.dev and we’ll add it to the official plugin!

  Other

  • Based on WordPress Plugin Boilerplate
  • Uses Select2 to enhance dropdowns

  Featured on

  • WP Tavern
  • RiverTheme
  • The WhiP (WPMU DEV)
  • TotalPhotoshop

  API

  **Filters**

  These are the filters available to modify the behavior of the plugin. These all take at least 1 parameter which you must return

  beautiful_filters_dropdown_categories

  $args is an array of the arguments put into the wp_dropdown_categories function.
  $taxonomy is the current taxonomy.

  Read the full description on the official page →