Advanced Custom Fields Elementor Pro | Search & Filter Tools

Using Advanced Custom Fields & Elementor Pro you're going to need to add in search & filtering options to build more useful websites - I'll show you how!

If you missed the first 2 parts, you can find them here:

Building a website with ACF and Elementor Pro and you're going to come across many times where you'll need to search and/or filter the information on the site. This is where things can become confusing as there are many options and choosing the right one can be confusing.

In this 3rd instalment in the Beginners Guide to Advanced Custom Fields & Elementor Pro we'll explore some of the great options available - from free tools all the way up to the paid options.

In this video I'll cover:

✅ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - ACF Better Search
03:29 - Search & Filter (Free)
07:46 - JetSmartFilters & JetSearch
14:09 - Search & Filter Pro
28:02 - What next?

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[tubethisboy]

Your videos are fantastic. So easy to understand and very relevant. Well done my friend. I've learned so much from your videos and I've actually implemented. Thanks for doing all this great research into the WP ecosystem and reporting back in a practical no BS way.

[SpencerTaylorOnline]

This is one of the most helpful videos I have ever watched! ACF is one of the more confusing things for web designers who are not also devs or have some dev experience. But you make it so much easier! Thank you for the hard work putting all of this together.

[deinesrojas]

Your explanation of how the code is divided helped me so much. Thanks for taking the time to do it.

[bruceclark]

I'm struggling! At 21:19 the "search & filter query" option is not visible - I have Pro in both versions do they need to be connected somewhere for it to appear?

[alanjacobs]

Hmmm, interesting and timely. I’m moving from jetsmartfilters ( weird bugs and not enamoured by their new support policies ) to s&f pro. I think this tutorial is going to take a few rewatches to understand exactly what you did as it seems slightly different to your previous s&f pro videos. Definitely not intuitive, but their support is really good. Thanks.

[martinargimon]

Paul. This is excellent, although as you’d seen in most ‘real estate’ ( including Airbnb) web sites, the users is always presented with a filter which is ‘built’ by ‘adding’ a series of choices ( one after the other) ie. First field ‘location’, second field ‘ beds’, third field ‘ budget’, etc and only then the user clicks the search button which combines all three options. This is usually the typical way filters are used in most web sites. Perhaps u could guide us a bit more on how to set this ‘3 to 4 ‘aggregate filter ‘ that once triggered it give us the expected result. I was unable to ‘unlock ‘ how to put it together in that fashion. If u can will be much appreciated. Many thanks. Kind regards. Martin

[donmatv]

Amazing tutorial. Why someone could dislike this video? I don't get it.

[mousumisaha]

This is amazing! Thanks. Its taking my learnings into the right direction as it is these code boxes I want to learn more rather than rely on plugins other people have done and having to learn the quirks on how to use them. Query, Custom Code

[StephaneBergeronPixelyzed]

Great video! Another option (not the cheapest though) is to mix FacetWP with SearchWP. That also creates powerful search and filtering.

[intentionalcannabis]

Thanks! I need features of JetSmart filters, however, you did not mention if the features you're using is free or paid version? If paid which plan to accomplish what you did in Elementor Pro? Thanks

[Sashad]

Many thanks for this review. Helped me a lot!

[ritavanderaa]

Thank you. Great instruction without the hype. Miles ahead of most others out there, and so much easier to go through. Would love to see something on how to to build a search for specific/range of dates for event listings... 😉

[jounalansman]

This is amazing! Thanks. Its taking my learnings into the right direction as it is these code boxes I want to learn more rather than rely on plugins other people have done and having to learn the quirks on how to use them. Query, Custom Code snippets are the type of thing. Next step maybe is writing my own plugins :)

[davidspot]

Nice. I still love the search with the Ajax effect though

[yann]

Jet Smart Filters : Despite the general compatibility, there are two fields that CAN’T be used for the data filtering – they are Checkbox, Date Picker, and Date Time Picker.

[angelnunez]

Great Video as usual .. but I still missing a tutorial about MAP Filtering, for real estate or business listing ... any help on this ?

[romeldiaz]

Paul, another great tut as usual. Maybe I missed it but is there a tut for the export/import of custom post types and advanced custom fields? I'm at my wit's end trying to figure out why the featured image won't come when importing. Appreciate your inputs.

[martinmassuh]

Great tutorial Used it like a year a go, Sorry to ask, but I wonder if this still the way in 2023. THANK YOU in advance!!!! and Thanks for doing these great tutorials!

[ValleyDigitalMarketing]

Thank you for the content you put out. It is greatly appreciated.

[cecesdiary]

Great content. Just what I was looking for, but can these filters work without having the pro version?