Display dropdown of all categories or custom fields

  • I’m sorry, this plugin UI is not really friendly
    I’m trying to create a filter with all the categories that I have,
    so if I have Cars, Bikes, Other I should see a dropdown list with those 3 categories
    and after I click for example on Cars it will show the posts that in it

    and I wanted to ask if I created a custom field for each post, is it possible add a custom field filter? the main idea that I’m trying to get is that I don’t need to add to the filter manually, it should grab it automatically.

    Is it possible?

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by oritzio.
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  • Plugin Author TC.K

    (@wp_dummy)

    If you look closely, meta fields and taxonomies (eg categories) are very similar. One of the reason why meta fields was used in WP is that compare to taxonomy, retrieving/storing in meta fields is simpler than taxonomy and it is faster in those operation. This is due to the database tables are much very different with each other. Taxonomy uses relation tables where meta fields uses single table.
    Thus, retrieving data are different in meta fields and taxonomy.

    In a nutshell, if you want to add the option in filter automatically, you should use custom taxonomy. Sure you can apply it to meta fields, but you will need to customize the plugin.

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