Clandevs — WooCommerce Product Filter
Clandevs — WooCommerce Product Filter
Description
Clandevs — WooCommerce Product Filter helps shoppers quickly find products using powerful AJAX-powered filters. All features are fully available — no premium upgrades or license keys required.
Filter Types
- Filter by category, attribute, price, rating, color, brand, and product tags.
- Auto-detect WooCommerce custom attributes and display them as filter lists.
- Price range slider with synced min/max inputs.
- Customer rating filter with visual star display.
- Availability filters for in-stock and on-sale products.
- Color swatches and brand filters with visual term support.
User Experience
- AJAX filtering — instant updates without full page reload.
- Shareable filter URLs — bookmark and share filtered results.
- Active filter chips with individual remove and clear-all actions.
- Mobile-friendly drawer — responsive sidebar that collapses into a toggleable drawer.
- Contextual product counts — show how many products match each filter option.
- Show more / Show less for long filter lists.
- Hierarchical category indentation.
Display & Styling
- 3 built-in skins — Classic, Graphite, and Sunrise.
- 15+ color controls for accents, sidebar, chips, buttons, inputs, and empty states.
- Typography controls — font family, font size, sidebar width, layout gap, and border radius.
- Per-page switcher — let shoppers control how many products are displayed.
- Styled no-results state with clear actions.
Integrations
- Shortcode support — use
[clandevs_catalog_filters]to embed filters on any page. - Elementor widget — drag-and-drop filter sidebar widget.
- WooCommerce Blocks — native Gutenberg block for the block editor.
- Works with any WooCommerce-compatible theme.
Management
- Admin filter visibility — toggle each filter on or off from Settings.
- Drag-and-drop ordering — reorder filter sections from admin.
- Analytics dashboard — track how customers use filters with top-filter reports.
Shortcodes
[clandevs_catalog_filters]— display filters on any page.[cscf_legacy_filter]— legacy shortcode (still supported).
Privacy
This plugin connects to no external services. Filter analytics are stored locally in your WordPress database, and no data leaves your site.
License
This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html for details.
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to
/wp-content/plugins/clandevs-smart-catalog-filters/or install via the WordPress plugin installer. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
- Ensure WooCommerce is installed and active.
- Configure filter visibility under Catalog Filters > Settings.
- Customize appearance under Catalog Filters > Styling.
- View filter analytics under Catalog Filters > Analytics.
Screenshots
Filter sidebar on desktop — category, price, rating, brand, color, and attribute filters with active chips.
Mobile drawer — compact filter drawer with clear-all and close actions on small screens.
Admin settings screen — filter visibility toggles for each filter type.
Faq
Yes. WooCommerce must be installed and active for this plugin to work.
Use the [clandevs_catalog_filters] shortcode on any page or post. On shop archive pages, filters appear automatically in the sidebar.
Yes. Go to Catalog Filters > Styling to change colors, skins, typography, layout dimensions, and border radii.
Filter analytics are stored locally in your WordPress database only. The plugin does not send any data to external services, and it connects to no third-party APIs.
The plugin uses its own CSS for filter UI and is designed to work with any WooCommerce-compatible theme. You can adjust the sidebar width and layout gap in the Styling settings.
Yes. Filtering updates the product list without reloading the page, and the current filter state is reflected in the URL.
Yes. Use Catalog Filters > Settings to show or hide category, brand, price, rating, availability, color, and the apply button.
Reviews
Changelog
2.0.6
- Hardened filter analytics against malformed request data (nested arrays, non-finite prices, corrupt flush batches).
- Fixed PHP warnings when hostile array parameters were passed in filter URLs.
- Added continuous integration across PHP 7.4–8.4.
- Removed obsolete Freemius deploy workflow and renamed the Composer package slug.
2.0.5
- Added an uninstall.php that honors the “Delete plugin data on uninstall” setting.
- Deactivation no longer deletes plugin data — data is only removed on uninstall when that setting is enabled.
- Filter analytics now feed the usage counter that powers the review prompt.
- Removed outdated telemetry references from the readme.
2.0.4
- Stopped advertising Pro Import/Export screen to unlicensed users.
- Added hook after the filter settings form.
- Added filter-form extension hooks for the Pro add-on.
2.0.3
- Stopped advertising Pro Import/Export screen to unlicensed users.
- Added hook after the filter settings form.
- Added filter-form extension hooks for the Pro add-on.
2.0.2
- Restored Freemius SDK for opt-in telemetry and updates
- Fixed contributors list — removed invalid WordPress.org username
- Shortened short description to meet 150 character limit
- Version header now matches SVN tag
2.0.1
- Renamed plugin to “Clandevs Smart Catalog Filters”
- All features fully available — no premium gating
- Removed custom CSS feature for wp.org compliance
- Updated shortcode to
[clandevs_catalog_filters] - Legacy shortcode
[cscf_legacy_filter]still supported
1.0.2
- Freemius SDK updated to 2.13.1
1.0.1
- Freemius deploy action fix
1.0.0
- Initial release