{"id":365642,"date":"2025-10-09T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=365642"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:04:59","password":"","slug":"advanced-search-and-filter","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/docs\/advanced-search-and-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Search and Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Directorist provides an excellent interface to search all listings. You can display a beautiful search form for searching all listings very easily with a simple shortcode. However, Directorist has added an advanced filter to narrow down the result of listings on any listing archive page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advanced Search\/Filter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Directorist advanced filter lets your users search listings based on a large number of criteria like custom fields, tags, price range, etc. along with default text field, category, and location fields. You can also customize all the labels of the filter. You can also decide what fields to show in the filter from the Directorist settings page. We\u2019ve covered the <a href=\"https:\/\/directorist.com\/docs\/search-listing-page-setup\/#7-toc-title\">detailed configuration and setup process here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-48-1024x586.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-365681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-48-1024x586.png 1024w, https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-48-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-48-768x440.png 768w, https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-48-1536x879.png 1536w, https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-48-2048x1172.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where You Can Use Advanced Filters?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use advanced filters in different places. Here is the list of pages where you can use advanced filters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Listing Search Form Page where the shortcode&nbsp;<code>[directorist_search_listing]<\/code>&nbsp;is used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Listing Search Result Page where the shortcode&nbsp;<code>[directorist_search_result]<\/code>&nbsp;is used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Archive Page of All listings where the shortcode&nbsp;<code>[directorist_all_listing]<\/code>&nbsp;is used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Listing Single Category Archive page where the shortcode&nbsp;<code>[directorist_category]<\/code>&nbsp;is used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Listing Single Location Archive page where the shortcode&nbsp;<code>[directorist_location]<\/code>&nbsp;is used.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directorist provides an excellent interface to search all listings. You can display a beautiful search form for searching all listings very easily with a simple shortcode. However, Directorist has added an advanced filter to narrow down the result of listings on any listing archive page. 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