I’ll check this out, I haven’t done much with that plugin in a while. I’ll update the doc page accordingly too.
Thanks for letting us know!
The Free version of the plugin does not search custom fields, the Pro one does. Are you referring to their Pro version or the Free one?
Get more features with Search & Filter Pro
Search Custom Fields, Post Meta, Authors, Post Types, Post Dates, Taxonomies, Tags, Categories
from https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-filter/
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Jaso
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I tried both, Free & Pro, neither recognize PODS
I’ll look into some other options and get back to you.
Relevanssi is a good option which changes the default WordPress search field to search multiple fields with quick indexing. The free version includes most fields; paid version is for things like indexing content of PDFs and other attachments.
Facet WP is a very robust, paid, option for faceted search (checkboxes and dropdowns combined).
The two plugins work with Pods and in combination with each other.
Most other options I’ve seen for faceted-search tend to require configuring and offloading to third-party services for search indexing.
For Search and Filter Pro, I don’t have access to the plugin, but their documentation seems to indicate that a search field needs to be configured with a Query, Data Type, and Data Source:
