Filter Everything – Product Filter changelog

1.9.8 Latest 1 improved10 fixed1 security1 changed

Improved

• NEW: «Woo Discount Rules» option on the Settings tab, shown when that plugin is active — choose whether the Price and «On sale» filters should use the discounted prices (on by default, as before)

Fixed

• Fixed very slow pages, including search results, on sites with Woo Discount Rules: a page with a Price or «On sale» filter made the plugin evaluate the discount rules for every product on every view (5–50 seconds on large catalogs); the discounted prices are now cached and recalculated only for the products or rules that changed
• Fixed the Range list counters of a numeric filter when the cheapest or the most expensive item has a fractional value (e.g. $1.75 with ranges 0–1.50 / 1.60–2.1): that item was counted in the wrong range, and the instant recount filtered it the same way, because the plugin replaced its value with the rounded slider bound
• Fixed the «On Sale» filter counters with Woo Discount Rules: a product discounted by a rule but without a sale price of its own was removed from «No» without being added to «Yes», so the two counters did not add up
• Fixed filtered category pages in a non-default Polylang language (e.g. /uk/product-category/…/) being 301-redirected to the default language as soon as a filter was applied — the plugin copied Polylang's internal language condition into its own tax query, so Polylang resolved the queried category in the wrong language
• Fixed filters on sites where Polylang uses a separate domain or sub-domain for each language: filter links, chips and the Reset link pointed to the default language's domain, and AJAX filtering returned «page not found» on the other languages' domains
• Fixed the «What to filter» field of a Filter Set staying empty when the selected page is on another domain than the admin — for example a Filter Set of a language that Polylang serves from its own domain or sub-domain
• Fixed the Range list of a numeric filter accepting whole numbers only: its Min and Max fields now follow the precision of the «Slider Step» setting, so with a step of 0.01 you can create ranges such as 0 – 1.49
• Fixed filtering on Divi Theme Builder category archive templates whose Blog module shows the «Current Category» (Divi 4 and Divi 5): the filter widget and its counters reacted, but the Blog module kept listing all posts of the category
• Fixed the XML sitemap generation failing with «No URLs were found» when a Filter Set works on the archive of a custom post type (e.g. /jobs/), on multisite sub-sites and on sub-directory installs; a Shop page with a custom slug was skipped the same way
• Fixed the XML sitemap missing indexable pages: posts without an author (e.g. created by an import or an API connector) were not counted, and neither were posts assigned only to a term more than one level below the filtered one

Security

• A security fix related to how Filter Set and Filter data is stored and read, and to who is allowed to create or edit these items

Changed

• *Release Date - 2 November 2026*

1.9.7 4 improved10 fixed1 security1 changed

Improved

• NEW: optional «Plugin notifications» (off unless you allow them) — see «External services» for details
• NEW: The «Block filter URLs in robots.txt» option now also works on sites with a physical robots.txt file — the plugin keeps its rules in a marked block inside that file and updates it automatically; nothing else in the file is touched
• Reworked the License tab: it now asks where you bought the plugin and shows the three steps for that case (CodeCanyon → «Get your License Key» with the Envato account that made the purchase; filtereverything.pro → «My licenses» with the exact site address this site reports), so customers no longer paste the Envato purchase code into the key field
• Activation errors now explain what actually happened instead of a generic «Invalid license key»: a pasted Envato purchase code, a key generated for another address, a key already active on two sites, a filtereverything.pro key for a site that is not registered yet, or a license server that could not be reached

Fixed

• Fixed the Apply button building a broken GET link (e.g. ?yes=on) instead of the pretty filter URL when two filters share the same custom field with different filter types — such as a numeric «Sale Price» filter and an «On Sale» checkbox both based on _sale_price
• Fixed a fatal error «Call to undefined function is_plugin_active()» when the plugin was loaded outside wp-admin (WP-CLI, cron) — the Breakdance compatibility check now falls back to the active-plugins option
• Fixed a PHP warning «Undefined array key "post_type"» shown to administrators when a Filters widget or block with no Filter Set selected was displayed on a page that has no relevant Filter Set
• Fixed a label or swatch term in Apply-button mode with instant counts getting unselected again right after the click when the instant recount of a large Filter Set took longer than half a second (many terms, slower phones) — the click was processed twice
• Fixed the rating stars filter keeping the count of a rating next to the stars after that rating was clicked again to deselect it, when «Disable filter links for crawlers» is on
• Fixed SEO Rules with a specific category (e.g. «Women's Perfumes + Hugo Boss») generating no URLs for the XML sitemap — only «Any»-category rules made it into the sitemap, although the specific pages were correctly indexable on the frontend
• Fixed the XML sitemap including filtered URLs whose pages are empty and noindex on the frontend: products hidden from the catalog (out of stock with «Hide out of stock items from the catalog» enabled, or excluded from the catalog) no longer count when the sitemap decides whether a filtered page has products
• Fixed the XML sitemap listing filtered URLs without the trailing slash on sites whose permalink structure ends with one, so every entry went through a 301 redirect before reaching the canonical page; the sitemap now follows the site's permalink settings exactly
• Fixed filtering doing nothing on sites with the WP User Manager plugin (and other plugins built on the Brain Cortex router): the router re-ran the main query after Filter Everything had filtered it, so shop and category pages always showed all products
• Fixed the Filters and Chips blocks showing «This content is available to members only» instead of the filters when WP User Manager is active — the blocks passed its content-restriction attributes on to the widget as if they were widget settings

Security

• A security fix related to the Elementor Pro «Load More» / infinite scroll pagination on filtered pages

Changed

• *Release Date - 22 September 2026*

1.9.6 7 improved5 fixed1 changed

Improved

• NEW: The «Disable filter links for crawlers» option is now available in the free version too: filter links are rendered as instead of , so search engine bots and AI crawlers no longer discover and hammer endless filter combinations. It is enabled by default on new installations; existing sites can switch it on in Settings → General → Crawlers and bots
• NEW: Added the «Block filter URLs in robots.txt» option: the plugin generates Disallow rules for its filter URLs and adds them to the site's robots.txt automatically, so well-behaved crawlers stop requesting filtering result pages they already know. In the free version the rules cover every filter parameter; in the PRO version with pretty permalinks they name only the URLs that are never indexa...
• Added the «Crawlers and bots» section to Settings → General and a one-time admin notice after the update pointing to the new protections
• Added the «What's new» page under the Filters menu: release notes of the installed version with a badge on the menu item after an update, so you can see what changed whenever it suits you
• The Import/Export link was removed from the Filters menu and the top toolbar to keep them short; the Import/Export tab in Settings stays where it was
• The installed plugin version is now shown next to the plugin name in the top toolbar on every plugin page, in both the free and the PRO version (previously PRO printed it next to the license status and the free version only in the Help tab)
• License activation on sites whose address carries a path (WPML/Polylang language directories, multisite sub-sites): the License tab now shows the exact address the plugin reports to the license server, and when a key was generated for a different address the error explains it instead of the generic «Invalid license key»

Fixed

• Fixed filter counters on shops that list product variations as separate catalog items next to their still-visible parent products (e.g. YITH Color Label Variations with parents not hidden): the counters could be lower than the number of products actually shown on the filtered page
• Fixed filters not working for logged-out visitors on shops that use WooCommerce B2B (the plugin hides restricted products from guests and changed the identity of the page query the Filter Set was saved with)
• Fixed the PHP 8.2 «Creation of dynamic property» deprecation notice triggered by the Filters, Chips and Sorting modules for Divi
• Fixed «Create Filters Automatically» writing a broken entry into the list of global URL prefixes and overwriting the prefixes that had just been registered for the new filters
• Fixed the error log filling up with PHP warnings «strpos(): Empty needle» from the page-builder detector on PHP 7 sites (reported after the WordPress 7.1 update); markup-based builder detection now also reports the builder name correctly

Changed

• *Release Date - 24 August 2026*

1.9.5 1 improved11 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Child filters are now reset when their parent filter selection changes in the «Apply button» mode with instant recount: switching the Brand no longer keeps a Model that belongs to the previous Brand selected

Fixed

• Fixed the search box inside a filter returning no results when the filter's terms are shown as color swatches or when filter links are hidden from search engine crawlers
• Fixed numeric range filters (e.g. price) keeping outdated minimum and maximum values for several hours after a product was edited: the cached filter data is now reset correctly on every product save
• Fixed the range slider and its number inputs not appearing in the «Apply button» mode with instant recount when the Filter Set contains only one filter (on PHP 8 such a filter could be mistakenly treated as waiting for a parent filter selection and stayed hidden)
• Fixed filter terms requiring a double tap in Safari on iPhone when filter links are hidden from search engine crawlers or shown as color swatches and brand logos: a single tap now both selects the term and instantly recalculates the counters
• Fixed the mobile «Show» button occasionally displaying the found posts number with doubled parentheses, like ((60))
• Fixed the «Apply button» with a redirect to another page repeating the already applied URL segments when the button was pressed again on a filtered page: the new address is now always built from the clean location URL
• Fixed filters with the «See more» option hiding all of their terms after a selection in another filter in the «Apply button» mode with instant recount, when another Filter Set on the same page configures the same attribute without «See more» (e.g. a dropdown in a search form and a checkbox list in the sidebar): the «See more» state is now read from the rendered filter itself, and the static fil...
• Fixed hierarchical filters with the «See more» option rendering with all terms hidden until the plugin's JavaScript runs: on sites where scripts are delayed or minified by page-speed plugins (e.g. WP Rocket) such filters could stay empty for logged-out visitors, while logged-in users saw them correctly
• Fixed the «Load More» button of the Elementor Loop Grid widget appending unfiltered products on a filtered page: the widget's next-page address (?e-page-…) now keeps the applied filters, and the second and further pages no longer get a malformed address with two «?» characters
• Fixed the «Empty terms → Always hide» option not being applied to filters displayed as color swatches or brand logos when the page loads in the «Apply button» mode with instant recount: empty terms were visible until the first click on any filter and only then disappeared
• Fixed all filters disappearing from the Shop page and other product archive pages after updating to WooCommerce 11.0: WooCommerce now reports the shop page itself instead of the products archive there, and the plugin no longer recognized the page as a filterable products list

Changed

• *Release Date - 5 August 2026*

1.9.4 1 fixed1 changed

Fixed

• Fixed a fatal error ("Cannot redeclare modify_specific_module()") that broke the site front end right after plugin activation on Divi websites that use a Theme Builder header layout

Changed

• *Release Date - 20 July 2026*

1.9.3.1 1 fixed1 changed

Fixed

• Fixed the fatal error "Call to a member function setExcludedTerms() on false" that could break pages with filters after the 1.9.3 update, when a filter referenced a parent filter that no longer exists in the Filter Set or does not apply to its post type

Changed

• *Release Date - 14 July 2026*

1.9.3 8 improved6 fixed1 changed

Improved

• NEW: Instant filter counts — after every click, filter counters are recalculated instantly right in the browser, with no page reload and no server request. Available in the «Apply button» mode
• NEW: Added native Filters, Chips and Sorting widgets for Beaver Builder, Bricks, Breakdance, Divi and the block editor (Gutenberg)
• NEW: Added the new Range List filter type: numeric values (price, weight, etc.) can now be shown as a list of predefined ranges instead of a slider
• NEW: Added the Results container option with a visual picker: choose exactly which part of the page AJAX refreshes — enter a CSS selector manually or click «Select visually» and simply click the posts area right on your site
• NEW: Added the «Disable filter links for crawlers» option: filter links are rendered as instead of , so search engine bots no longer waste your crawl budget on endless filter combinations. Links to combinations that your SEO Rules make indexable keep the real tag and stay discoverable
• The minimum required PHP version is now 7.4
• Filter Sets with a very large number of filters (100+) can now be saved reliably: the editing form submits only the fields that were actually changed, so the request no longer hits the server's post_max_size limit
• Major performance boost on large catalogs: filter data is now delivered as a small static cacheable file instead of inline page markup, dramatically reducing HTML size

Fixed

• XML sitemap generation no longer fails on hosts where MEMORY tables are unavailable or size-restricted (the temporary table now uses InnoDB)
• Buttons inside the filtering area keep working after an AJAX results update (previously they could lose their click handlers when the content was refreshed)
• On multilingual sites (Polylang/WPML), filtering by a taxonomy term whose slug is shared across languages no longer triggers a redirect to the wrong-language URL; the filter now resolves the term in the current language
• On Polylang sites, the Filter Set list table now shows the location preview link in the Filter Set's own language, matching the edit screen (previously the language prefix was dropped)
• Compatibility with Ultimate Membership Pro: filtering now works for logged-out/restricted visitors on pages where the membership plugin hides protected posts (its post exclusions no longer change the query hash used to match a Filter Set)
• Filter term counters now respect the Filter Set's post type. When the saved query lacked an explicit post type (e.g. an Avada fusion_blog element) and other post types shared the filtered taxonomy (e.g. Pages assigned to Categories), counters over-counted; they now match the displayed results

Changed

• *Release Date - 14 July 2026*

1.9.2.2 1 fixed1 security1 changed

Fixed

• Changed the default value of the meta robots tag from 'nofollow' to 'follow' on filtering result pages

Security

• A security fix related to the Color swatches feature

Changed

• *Release Date - 15 June 2026*

1.9.2.1 2 improved10 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Added a hook to disable Woo Discount Rules support
• Made the bundled translations in the plugin's /lang folder take priority over the ones auto-downloaded by WordPress.org, since the bundled ones are 100% complete and curated

Fixed

• Removed a code fragment that could trigger false positives in antivirus software
• Corrected inaccurate changelog entries about page builder widget support, Filter Set duplication, and Rating filter star icons
• Fixed fatal error on frontend caused by is_plugin_active() unavailability
• Fixed the display of links in the XML sitemap when the FLRT_PERMALINKS_ENABLED constant is enabled
• Fixed a fatal error when generating the XML sitemap with WooCommerce disabled filter-everything-pro/pro/Xml/XmlPrepare.php:834
• Fixed a duplicate loop for the Apply button in filters
• Fixed the duplication of the mobile filter button in Elementor
• Fixed an issue with selecting queries in the filter set
• Fixed a bug with automatic page scrolling
• Fixed a bug with saving filter sets

Changed

• *Release Date - 02 June 2026*

1.9.2 18 improved12 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Added the ability to generate an XML sitemap for indexable filtering result pages
• Added the ability to import and export Filters, Filter Sets, SEO Rules, and plugin settings
• Added Filter, Chips, and Sorting widgets for Elementor
• Added functionality for automatic filter creation based on popular criteria
• Added the ability to create date filters for both regular post dates and dates stored in custom fields, including fields created with ACF
• Added the ability to create a large number of filters in a Filter Set, such as 100 or more
• Added a 'Horizontal view' checkbox to Filter Sets
• Added improved styles for the Filters widget
• Merged the SEO settings pages into a single tab for better convenience
• Added the ability to reset values in numeric fields
• Added an icon to the 'Where to filter?' field for quick preview of the page where the Filter Set works
• Added an icon to the SEO Rules list page for quick preview of the page where the SEO rule works
• Added suggestions for custom field filters, along with autocomplete while typing
• Improved star icons in the Rating filter
• Moved the 'Where to filter?' and 'What to filter?' fields into a separate metabox called 'Location'
• Improved the Apply and Reset buttons in Apply Button mode. They are now floating for better usability
• Improved the Filters widget on mobile option
• Added deletion of trashed posts along with the plugin

Fixed

• Fixed a bug with Taxonomy Numerical – duplicate results
• Fixed Elementor featured products price range query arguments
• Fixed query arguments for filtered content in Elementor templates
• Fixed a PHP warning 'Array to string conversion' in wpc-helpers.php
• Fixed an issue where an SQL variable was empty for product variations.
• Fixed bug with deprecated string /filter-everything/src/Settings/BaseSettings.php:82
• Fixed slow page loading along with Discount Rules for WooCommerce
• Fixed bug with deprecated string /filter-everything-pro/src/Entities/EntityManager.php on line 1121
• Fixed the issue with displaying two similar parts of the URL during filtering
• Fixed bug with deprecated string /filter-everything-pro/pro/Admin/SeoRules.php:602
• Fixed bug with deprecated string Deprecated: htmlspecialchars() filter-everything-pro/src/Settings/BaseSettings.php:239
• Fixed bug with Uncaught TypeError: array_merge() filter-everything-pro/src/Entities/EntityManager.php:470

Changed

• *Release Date - 18 March 2026*

1.9.1 13 improved6 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Added a new View ‘Rating’ for filters that displays rating stars
• Added iOS-style toggle switches instead of regular checkboxes in the plugin settings fields
• Added the ability to duplicate the Filter Sets
• Added compatibility for the 'Discount Rules for WooCommerce' plugin to the Price range and the On sale filters
• Introduced SEO-related settings, added SeoTabTrait, and enhanced admin UI for SEO configuration
• Added reset buttons for range filter inputs and improved styles for better UI feedback
• The “Collapse Filters Widget on Mobile devices” option has been improved
• Added different borders to the fields of the Filter Widget depending on hover, focus, blur events
• Added {raw_archive_title} option to add unformatted Archive title to a SEO Rule
• Added the FLRT_SET_TRANSIENT_ENABLED constant to disable transients
• Added the preview link to the eye button for the new Filter Set
• Added location-based settings for filter fields and introduced a new "Location" metabox in the admin panel
• Increased a filter item height and added the "More options" button in dashboard

Fixed

• Fixed a bug with the “+” symbol in filter terms and URLs
• Fixed a bug when filtering result pages were open by permalinks even if they are disabled
• Fixed a bug with the "?" character that remained in the URL after using the Range slider filter
• Fixed a bug with a PHP message that there is no array element with key 'cols_count' in FiltersWidget.php
• Fixed a bug and removed numeric values from the Range slider filter if a term is empty
• Fixed a bug in Query Loop Pagination

Changed

• *Release Date - 22 July 2025*

1.9.0 4 improved2 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Added support for Woo Brands
• Improved and fixed CSS styles for filters widget
• Made floor(); and ceil(); for range values optional via apply_filters(); function
• Added FLRT_DISABLE_CREDENTIALS constant to disable credentials link on filtered pages

Fixed

• Fixed bug with a Filter Set that contains the only Search field
• Fixed bug with Fatal error /filter-everything/src/Admin/AdminHooks.php:144

Changed

• *Release Date - 21 March 2025*

1.8.9 1 improved7 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Added ability to make Color swatches rounded

Fixed

• Added fix for the LiveCanvas page builder that uses … in query vars
• Small CSS fixes for range slider, widget element margins.
• Fixed bug in JS code for the mobile widget button counter ((18)) issue
• Fixed bug related with Woodmart theme and nested meta queries
• Fixed bug with empty Parent filter label
• Fixed bug with Elementor and Seo Description
• Fixed bug with Elementor pagination e.g. "e-page-5dabfd1=2"

Changed

• *Release Date - 21 January 2025*

1.8.8 1 improved1 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Added attribute all="true" for the [fe_posts_found] shortcode that counts all posts for all Filter Sets on a page

Fixed

• Fixed bug with sorting method

Changed

• *Release Date - 07 November 2024*

1.8.7 3 improved5 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Added compatibility with pagination in Query Loop block
• Added hook to the canonical tag to allow to handle it on the filtering result pages with noindex status
• Added hook 'wpc_swatch_image_size'

Fixed

• Fixed issues with Select2 dropdowns after WooCommerce update to the > 9.0.0
• Fixed style issues with the Avada theme
• Fixed issue with new plugin version details at the plugins screen in the admin dashboard
• Fixed compatibility with the Load more button/Infinite scroll in Elementor
• Fixed bug with sorting terms

Changed

• *Release Date - 29 October 2024*

1.8.6 2 improved4 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Added ability to translate SEO Rules with Polylang
• Added hooks 'wpc_taxonomy_location_terms', 'wpc_post_type_location_terms', 'wpc_author_location_terms'

Fixed

• Fixed compatibility issue with Polylang plugin
• Fixed the ability to rewrite functions wrapped with function_exists()
• Fixed small issue with terms order equal to the order in ACF field
• Fixed issue with text search through filtered posts and apostrophe character

Changed

• *Release Date - 18 July 2024*

1.8.5 5 improved1 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Added "Labels for Chips" option to configure chip labels
• Added "Dropdown Label" option
• The "Show in Chips" option was hidden due to lack of demand
• Now default terms order in a Custom Field is the same as in ACF field
• If ACF field terms have labels, they displays in the Filters widget instead of values

Fixed

• Fixed issue with WPML and Homepage in different languages

Changed

• *Release Date - 15 May 2024*

1.8.4 1 improved4 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Tested and improved compatibility with WordPress 6.5

Fixed

• Fixed issue with Filter Set for a post page
• Fixed issue with preview products in draft status and PHP > 8.2
• Fixed JS error occurred on type in the Search field input
• Issue with incorrect attribute 'for' in the Filters Widget title label

Changed

• *Release Date - 08 April 2024*

1.8.3 3 improved8 fixed1 changed

Improved

• Increased plugin performance and made faster it up to 10 times
• Added hook 'wpc_plugin_user_caps' to allow to modify user roles that can use the plugin
• Made AJAX loading circle thinner

Fixed

• Added compatibility with PHP > 8.1, removed FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING error
• Fixed bug with Date view available by default in a filter
• Fixed the issue with products with empty '_sale_price' meta values and wrong On sale counters
• Fixed issue with a parent filter, when current WordPress term archive page is selected term in the parent filter
• Fixed bug when the only Search Field presents in a Filter Set
• Fixed issues with Polylang plugin when language functions are not defined
• Fixed issue with double click on the Apply Button after using the Search Field
• Set correct permissions for the /assets dir

Changed

• *Release Date - 14 February 2024*

1.8.2 1 fixed2 changed

Fixed

• Fixed issue with GET-style parameters in filter URLs after 1.8.0 update

Changed

• *Release Date - 10 January 2024*
• See changelog for all versions.