Filter by Checkboxes – Improvements & Question

[tobyyParticipant]

Hello, thanks for this great plugin… the configuration possibilities are AMAZING!

i use custom taxonomies (checkboxes) to filter my search results.
this works quiet well, but i have 2 suggestions for improvement:

A) The “Select All” Checkbox is always checked – even if the taxonomy terms are “Un-checked” by default.
—> the “Select All” Checkbox should also be un-checked!

B) the label/text of the checkbox is not clickable right now
that’s not very user friendly…

and now to my real question, let me explain:
as an example: i have 2 taxonomies “Type of Car” and “Brands” to filter my search results.
i would like to start with displaying ALL available cars when the page loads.
As soon as a user clicks the “Brands” checkbox “Mercedes”, only Mercedes Cars are shown.

Right now this is only possible, if i have ALL other terms of ALL other taxonomies checked. so if i the user wants to narrow down his results, he first has to uncheck all checkboxes an then re-select his desired options. that’s bad usability to be honest, so my question is:

Q1) Can i tell the search to IGNORE a Taxonomy Filter if NO Checkbox is checked? (=DISPLAY ALL)
Then i could start with all terms unchecked, and the results get narrowed down as soon as the user selects a checkbox – that’s how filtering usually works, i think.

Q2) Do you have a list of available hooks/action/filters of your extension available?

thanks for your help and this amazing plugin!
kind regards
tobias mussil

[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

Hi Tobias,

Thank you very much for your kind words!

A & B – Very valid observations! I’ve noted both of these issues and already resolved for the upcoming release. Should be out by the end of this week.

Q1 – Short answer is no. The longer answer is maybe, but decent amount of work is probably required. Either a front-end script type of solution – like detecting if nothing is checked before the ajax request, check them, send the request and uncheck them after. ..or a back-end type of solution, using the ‘asp_query_args’ filter.

Q2 – There is a short (but incomplete) list within the plugin folder in the filters.txt file, also in the documentation here. And there is also a separate documentation about the asp_query_args filter.

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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