Captain Advance Filter

Captain Advance Filter lets you build AJAX-powered filter and search experiences for any post type. Create custom queries and filter sets — then embed them via shortcodes, Gutenberg blocks, or Elementor widgets. No coding required.

Whether you are filtering standard blog posts, portfolios, custom post types, or WooCommerce products, the plugin handles queries dynamically and retrieves results via AJAX without reloading the page.

Core Features

• AJAX Filtering & Pagination: Seamless filter updates and page navigations without page reload.
• Visual Query Builder: Pick post types, configure ordering, set post status, and query content visually.
• Filter Set Builder: Combine multiple filter fields and link them directly to a query.
• Multiple Filter Types: Checkbox, Radio, Dropdown (Select), Range Slider, Live Text Search, A-Z Alphabetical, Date Picker, and WooCommerce Rating (average star rating).
• Option Display Styles: Style your checkbox and radio filter options as lists, pill-style buttons, color swatches, image swatches, or category switcher tabs.
• Dynamic Data Sources: Filter by post taxonomy (categories, tags, custom taxonomies) or post meta fields (WooCommerce price, stock status, custom meta).
• Pre-Designed Layout Cards: Use pre-set card themes like Classic (image/title/excerpt), Minimal (compact image/title), Shop Card (WooCommerce-specific price, sale badge, add to cart), or Dark Overlay.
• Custom HTML Card Templates: Write custom layouts with dynamic tokens like {{title}}, {{permalink}}, {{thumbnail}}, {{excerpt}}, {{price}}, {{sale_badge}}, and {{add_to_cart}}.
• Frontend Columns & View Switcher: Control grid columns for Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile separately, with custom gap spacing and view switchers.
• Navigation Styles: Choose from standard Numbered Pagination, “Load More” buttons, or Infinite Scroll.
• URL Shareability: Enable URL syncing to share pre-filtered lists directly with a simple copy-paste of the browser URL.
• Performance Caching: Optional results caching using WordPress transients to speed up repeat search queries.
• Modern React Dashboard: Sleek and fully localized React-powered admin dashboard with translation readiness (wp.i18n) and Dark Mode support.

Shortcodes

• [captaf-filter id="1"] — render a complete filter set.
• [captaf-filter id="1" only="search,category"] — render only specific filters by key, allowing you to split a single filter set across different pages or columns (e.g., search in header, tags in sidebar).
• [captaf-grid query="your_query_key"] — render the filtered query results grid.
• [captaf-pagination query="your_query_key"] — render the pagination controls.
• [captaf-count query="your_query_key"] — render the live total results count.

Page Builder Integrations

• Elementor: Native widgets for Captain Filter, Captain Grid, and Captain Pagination, fully customizable and stylable inside the Elementor editor interface.
• Gutenberg: Native block editor support with Gutenberg blocks for Filter, Grid, and Pagination.
• Bricks Builder: Dedicated integration support coming soon!