FacetWP
- Advanced search filtering plugin for WordPress
- Map Facet Addon offers dynamic maps
- Probably overkill unless you need multiple criteria filters on your site
- Based on shortcodes
- Not cheap, but powerful and straightforward to set up
- Paul says it’s the fastest way to set up filtering
- AJAX-based
- Hierarchy select
- Conditional logic
- Caching for extra speed
SearchWP
- Paul says this is the search plugin to invest your time into learning
- Available on GPLDL
- Searches all custom content
- Integrates directly into FacetWP and overs a ton of powerful options
- Built-in indexing to speed up site searches
- Weighted taxonomy searching
- Handling stopwords and synonyms
Search & Filter
Search & Filter
- Pretty limited***
Search & Filter Pro ($25 or $75)
- Cheaper than FacetWP but similar features
- Built in search option, unlike FacetWP which needs to be used with SearchWP
- Has similar functions to FacetWP and SearchWP, but not the most user friendly option
- Cheaper than the Facet/Search combo
- Search & filter in a single plugin, instead of combining two other plugins
- AJAX
Tutorials