Enhancing Bricks Filters: Phase 2 (1.12.x)

New Potential Improvement: Enhanced Filter Flexibility

Hello everyone,

I’m excited to share a promising improvement idea that could significantly enhance filter functionality if implemented. To ensure traceability and provide developers with a comprehensive overview of improvement areas, I’m consolidating all filter enhancement ideas in this post.

Proposed Improvement: Datepicker Customization

  • Objective: Introduce hooks and additional settings to increase flexibility. This improvement would allow users to customize the Datepicker’s parameter logic, tailoring it to suit various use cases and application scenarios.

For more details, you can find them [here].


Leveraging Hooks & Snippets for Advanced Filtering

Building on discussions around Hooks/snippets, I’d like to highlight another potential enhancement inspired by my experience with the FacetWP plugin. Although FacetWP can be rigid and demands considerable technical expertise, once you grasp its logic, its catalog of hooks and snippets accessible here: Code snippets for FacetWP proves to be an invaluable resource.

facetwp hook solution

Range filters [1] [2] [3] [+4]

Use Case Example

Imagine a scenario where a filter contains a wide range of options. The goal is to limit selections intelligently (e.g., range restrictions), as commonly seen on websites like
remax . com or almost everywhere on the net

Proposed Solution

This functionality could be achieved by:

  • Utilizing a collection of filter hooks (for Bricks)
  • Or Directly customizing filter parameters inside bricks for precise control. (Better!)

Before Example:

After Example:

This enhancement ensures users experience intuitive and efficient filtering across diverse scenarios. not to mention that it seems logical and visually better represented

There’s no need for more explanations :grinning:
although I took care to study my subject and present realistic and simple solutions, based on real experience.
I’d love to hear bricks developers thoughts and feedback on these ideas!

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