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search-into-subcategories

Description

For Demo go here http://codescar.eu/projects/search-into-subcategories

Search-Into-Subcategories plugin allows you to make a select-search shortcode for your own categories.

You can use if everywhere you want and make a tree structure for your categories.

[search-into-subcategories]

Arguments you can pass:

parent_category Default is 0
    You can list only sub categories of the category id you give here. With 0 lists alla categories

max_depth Default is 2
    How many subcategories (children of the parent_category) to display, at least 1.

search_input Default is 1
    Display a text input for search. (You can turn it off with 0 value)

labels Default is <empty string>
    Labels for the inputs. Give them in the order you want with '|' as separator. example: Category1|Category2|Text

search_text Default is Search
    The text to display in search button.

hide_empty Default is 1
    Hide categories without content, set to 0 to display all!

exclude Default is <empty string>
    Category IDs to exclude from listing. Separate them with ','. Example: 6,7,13

show_date_ranges Default is 0
    Show from/to date ranges to filter publish date. Set it to 1 to use it.

dates_format Default is DD-MM-YYYY
    It requires the show_date_ranges to be enabled. It uses Pikaday JS Library (a small one) to create a datepicker
    and manage the date formatting. (If you use spaces into the format, wrap it into single quotes 'like this').
    (The formatting is generated by momentJS https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/ )

custom_field Default is null
    List of custom meta-fields to search in (it will create a new input for every meta-field.
    ( Use , as separator, example: field1,meta_key,etc )

custom_field_labels Default is null
    List for labels in custom meta fields text input. (Use | as separator, example: name1|name2|etc)

custom_post_types Default is null
    Post type to filter results

posts_per_page Default is null
    Set result page posts per page

custom_taxonomy Default is category
    Set custom taxonomy to walk.

Example:
[search-into-subcategories parent_category=0 max_depth=3 search_input=1 labels=cat1|cat2|cat3|Text search_text=Find
hide_empty=0 exclude=7,6 show_date_ranges=1 custom_field=author,my_custom
custom_field_labels=Author|Custom custom_post_types=documents posts_per_page=10
custom_taxonomy=my_taxonomy dates_format=YYYY-MM-DD]

Screenshots

  • Search Category Level 1
  • Search Category Level 2
  • Search Category Level 3 & Input

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

  1. Upload Search-into-subcategories-plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Add the shortcode into your page/post you want.

Reviews

3 September 2016
Excelente funcionalidad de selectores combinados. Me costo mucho encontrar un plugin que funcione correctamente en esta funcionalidad.
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Contributors and Developers

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Change Log

1.1.0

  • Added a small datepicker JS library – https://github.com/dbushell/Pikaday
  • Added a new setting dates_format in order to use custom dates formats

1.0.2

  • Added support for custom taxonomy
  • A bug fix for meta-data fields

1.0.1

  • Added placeholder to each input field.

1.0.0

  • Major changes!
  • Now you can use multiple instances on a page
  • Fixed some JavaScript issues
  • Added more search filters (date ranges, meta-field, post_type)

0.1.5

  • Some changes, a problem have to be fixed.

0.1.3

  • A fix for permalink structure

0.1.2

  • A small hotfix for category listing

0.1.1

  • Javascript file loading only when shortcode used
  • A label id fix
  • Screenshots name fix

0.1

  • First version