Layered nav tweaks

[mikejolley]

Hello,

I've been visiting successful e-commerce stores such as Amazon, Zappos, etc.. to learn from them.
I noticed something very simple thing that WooC could copy.

1. They too have a dropdown box to sort products according to new products/price/in alphabetical order.
   Except theirs is displayed on top of the products, where it's most useful, as opposed to after the products as in WooC.
   May you please let me know how to "copy" the dropdown so that it appears both at the top and bottom of pages?
   2)They also have the equivalent of the layered navigation.
   http://www.zappos.com/men-shirts-tops/CKvXARDL1wHAAQLiAgMBGAI.zso?s=goliveRecentSalesStyle/desc/#!/men-shirts-tops/CKvXARDL1wHAAQLiAgMBGAI.zso?s=goliveRecentSalesStyle/desc/

Right now, the layered nav on WooC uses a side widget. So do they. But in addition, the chosen attributes are displayed again at the top of the page in "YOUR SELECTIONS:". This makes it very easy to remove/change an attribute. Is there any way to make this happen in WooC?

To Summarise:

• Persistant filters
• Filters top and bottom
• Show 'your selections' widget to toggle them

[dominic-p]

Definitely +1 for the second part of that suggestion. The "Your Selections" concept is super user friendly in my opinion. I'm not too concerned about the placement of the sorting box because I feel that should be up to the theme to decide.

[billien]

Excellent ideas! Both of these are essential:

• the filter box at the bottom of the products is a very poor practice.
• the more visibility the better. DO NOT make visitors think should be a WooC guiding principle. "Your Selections" on top would be great!

[quantizor]

Wholeheartedly agree on this one. I was wondering why it's after the product content in the first place!

[lucasstark]

I have an addon in the works to do this, As well as add in rating sort and sort by product attributes based on the attribute sort order in the taxonomy.

[billien]

@lucasstark

What's the ETA on your add-on?

[richangel]

@lucasstark

EXACTLY what I have been looking for. Being able to use numbers for attribute values and then being able to sort by these, would be great. Also being able to sort by user rating is a feature nearly all large ecommerce stores have. This would perfectionize woocommerce.

What is the status of your plugin here?

@mikejolley

By the way - when adding in php code into the category description fields, already now, one can display the layered nav filters atop of the products - so similar to what zappos etc are doing. Maybe simply creating shortcodes for the layerednav filters and then adding them into the category description fields could be a simply solution.

Also: Is there any way to clone the price filter widget and use it for attribute values (so numbers)? I have fix number values in my attributes and instead of having a dropdown, it would be so much better to have range filtering, as already provided by the price filter widget.

Thanks a lot,
Rich

[kingbt]

Checkboxes would be nice, even if there is an extension.

[alemarengo]

Hi guys!
I agreed with kingbt: I've been using Ajax Layered Nav plugin for a year, but after renewing license I realized it conflicts with woocommerce and my config. I switched to standard Layered Nav. What about using checkboxes? What's the difficulty in using them?