Coupon Filters
Overview
The Coupon Filters plugin for Clipper WordPress coupon theme will allow your users to filter coupons/deals on your taxonomy pages (stores, categories and tags) by another taxonomy (coupon type, categories or stores) via a sidebar widget.
The plugin will create an extra widget that can be placed in the “Store Sidebar” and “Coupon Sidebar” which will show a list of terms (example: Coupon Code, Promotion, Printable Coupon) within the selected taxonomy (example: Coupon Type) with checkboxes next to their names, and your users will be able to narrow down the coupon results by one or more terms.
The default filter taxonomy is “Coupon Type” since all major coupon sites like RetailMeNot, CouponDunia, CouponRaja.in and Coupons.com allow filtering by the type of offer/deal, but you can choose to filter by “Coupon Category” like on the popular GrabOn site or “Stores” as well. Now is your chance to get closer to those bigwigs in the business!
Note: The widget will only appear if the filter taxonomy is different from the main taxonomy on the page. So a category filter widget, will not appear on the category page, and likewise for stores. Currently, you can only filter by one taxonomy on a single page.
Key Features
- Filter by Offer Type, Categories or Stores
- AJAX based interface for smooth filtering
- Easy to configure sidebar widget
- Order the terms by name or count and set the number of terms to appear
- Remembers filters on page reload
Installation
- Download the Plugin zip file coupon-filters.zip.
- Open WP Admin dashboard -> Plugins -> Add new -> Upload
Upload and activate the Plugin from Plugins page. - Go to Appearance -> Widgets page.
- Add the “Coupon Filters” widget to “Store Sidebar” and/or “Coupon Sidebar”, select the taxonomy and set the order and number of terms you want displayed.
Support Policy
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Support FAQs
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Change log
2.0.1 Hotfix Release (21/07/2018)
FIXES:
- Fixed minor bugs and PHP notices
2.0.0 MAJOR UPDATE (02/01/2018)
CHANGES:
- Made compatible with Clipper 2.0.0.
1.0.1 Hotfix Release (24/04/2015)
FIXES:
- Escaped output of function add_query_arg() to prevent XSS security vulnerability
1.0.0 (29/03/2015)
Initial release version (at the time of Clipper 1.5.1)
Comments (22)
Hi can only use it in the sidebar or can i add it obove the coupon on store pages and is it possible to sort by Type just by pushing a button instead of click a box?
Thanks for the interest. Yes it is possible, but will require moderate PHP and good CSS skills.
You can use the base function “cfl_filter_markup()” to print the checkbox list anywhere, for example (enclose it in php tags)
The rest is just CSS, you can style the items to appear next to each other, hide the checkbox, and make the labels (text next to the checkbox) look like buttons because they are clickable.
Is this filter only available for store taxonomy, Or you sort offers on category pages too?
You can use the filter on category pages too, no problem.
Regards,
Mohsin
Great post.
I often shop online and would be very happy to get best discounts on my shopping. I found great discounts on paytm here xxxxxx
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In other words, I am a habitual spammer who likes to post links on any post I can find on the internet.
Can this plugin filter particular store’s categories ?
Yes, it can.
Hi,
Im using https instead of the http.
I got the following error and filter process is not working too. Actually filter process is working when I logged in as admin. after logout filter process is not working and got the js alert.
“Something went wrong. Please try refreshing the page.”
ajax response.
{“published”:””,”unreliable”:””,”success”:0,”message”:”Something went wrong. Please try refreshing the
page.”}
Im sure my coupons are published and not expired or unreliable.
Please help.
Thank you
Replied via email.
Thanks for your reply. I didn’t get any emails from you. Can you please send it again.
sumith.harshan[AT]gmail.com
Thank you again.
I had someone asking the same query through email. If it wasn’t you, please send an email on the address mentioned under the support tab. Please include your AppThemes username for verification.
How dealmaal.com is importing huge number of coupons. Is their any plugin?
No idea really. The best people to answer the question are the guys who run that site.
Hi I’ve just installed the plug in, but i can’t make the widget appear in the sidebar. Is it possible also put the filter on the top of the home page and category pages?
thanks,
Luca
Hi there,
Please email us with your support requests. You should be able to find our email address under the support tab.
Regards,
Mohsin
Hi,
I am using classipress.
I want to use filter on categories on a tag page.
Is it possible with this plugin?
Or is it hard to customize it, so a tag page can be filtered with checkboxes per category?
Hi there,
Thanks for the interest. The plugin only works with the Clipper theme, I think it wouldn’t be too difficult to customise it if you have PHP/WordPress skills.
Regards,
Mohsin
Hi Mohsin,
After visiting the demo site, I noticed the plugin creates a few dynamic URLs with parameters (?cfl_coupon_type=promotion).
I would like to know if the dynamic pages will be indexed by google, if so is there a way to avoid it? I am asking this because I don’t want duplicated content on my website.
Thank you.
Hi,
in the demo site your plugin filter unreliable Coupons.
But in my site it doesn’t . I tested with both version
Coupon filter 1.0.1 with Clipper v1.6.4 and another site with Coupon filter 2.0.0 and Clipper v2.0.
I sent you several emails.
Hi mohsin.
The plugin doesn’t filter correctly the coupons.
Can you update it to be compatible with the last version of clipper and wordpress.
Thank’s.
we are working on this one too.
HI,
Thanks for sharing such a good article. This will help New Bloggers Like me
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