Range List

A facet type for creating a list of filterable number ranges. It can be used for prices, weights, square meters, or any other numerical value.

The facet can be displayed in several UI types like checkboxes, radio buttons, a dropdown, or as an fSelect facet type.

Available options

Name	Description
Data source	Where the value lives (taxonomy, custom field, post attribute). The facet expects a numeric value.
Ranges	To set up this facet type, create a number of ranges with min and max values. Each range will correspond to a facet choice. See the explanation below.
UI type	The UI type of this facet: Radio – Displays as a Radio facet, with an “Any” choice (if not empty). fSelect – Displays as a single-select or multi-select fSelect facet, with an “Any” choice. Dropdown – Displays as a Dropdown facet, with an “Any” choice. Checkboxes – Displays as a Checkboxes facet, without an “Any” choice.
Default label	This setting is only visible for UI types “Radio”, “fSelect”, and “Dropdown”. It sets the text of the “Any” choice: For the “Radio” UI type it enables an “Any” choice above the other radio buttons and sets its text. Leave it blank to remove the “Any” option. For the “fSelect” UI type it sets the text of the default first “Any” dropdown choice. To set a fixed “selected” label, see this explanation on the fSelect facet page. For the “Dropdown” UI type it sets the text of the default first “Any” choice. Note: this label is translatable with the facetwp_i18n hook.
Multi-select	This setting is only visible for UI type “fSelect”. If enabled, the facet will accept multiple selections, and will display a checkbox-style UI.
Facet logic	This setting is only visible for UI types “fSelect” and “Checkboxes”. For the “fSelect” type it is only relevant if it is set to multi-select. The setting determines the logic used between choices within the facet. Assume a facet with the choices “Apple”, “Banana”, and “Pear”: AND (match all) – if you select “Apple”, the choices “Banana” and “Pear” will disappear (or become ghosts if “Show ghosts” is enabled). Only results matching “Apple” will remain. OR (match any) – if you select “Apple”, the choices “Banana” and “Pear” will remain. If you select both “Apple” and “Banana”, results matching either will remain.
Show ghosts	Show choices that would return zero results? This setting is only visible for the UI types “Radio”, “fSelect”, and “Checkboxes”. If enabled, facet choices (created with the facet’s “Ranges” setting) that would return zero results are still shown, but dimmed and not clickable. If disabled, facet choices that have no associated posts will be hidden. See the explanation below.

Create ranges

To set up this facet type, use the Ranges setting to create a number of ranges with min and max values. Each range will correspond to a facet choice. For each choice, enter a custom label:

The final output of the above settings will look like the image on the right.

As shown in the above gif, if you leave the “Min” value blank in a row, the “Min” value of that field is set to the “Max” value of the previous row. Leaving “Min” blank on the first row sets that min value to 0. And leaving the “Max” value blank in the last row will be interpreted as there being no max value, meaning “and up”.

Starting with version 0.9 of the add-on, you can also use 0 (or any other number value) in the “Min” fields, to create overlapping ranges.

Note that “Max” values are interpreted as “up to and including” and “Min” values as “from and including”. So in the above example, a post with a value of 10000 will be included in both the first and the second facet choice.

Starting with version 1.0 of the add-on, the Ranges setting also accepts and properly works with decimal numbers for the Min/Max range values. When using decimals, use dots, not commas. Don’t use thousands separators, spaces or other characters.

Here is a video walkthrough of setting up a Range List facet:

What are ghosts?

Ghosts are facet choices that do appear in the unfiltered results, but disappear after being filtered out. If a facet choice has no associated posts, then it will never appear.

When “Show ghosts” is enabled, after filtering, facet choices that would return zero results are still shown, but dimmed and not clickable.

Note that if you set the “Facet logic” setting to “OR (match any)”, there will never be ghosts caused by selections made within the facet itself. If the Facet logic setting is set to “AND (match all)”, the facet will show ghosts caused by selections made within the facet itself. In both situations, the facet will show ghosts caused by selections made in other facets.

With “Show ghost” enabled, you can also (intentionally) create ranges that have zero results before filtering, which is slightly different from the behaviour of other facet types’ ghosts, which only show up after filtering. These ghosts will always appear, also if the “Facet logic” setting is set to “OR (match any)”.

Hide counts

How to hide the counts for the Range List facet, depends on the UI type setting:

UI type set to “None”, “Radio” or “Checkboxes”

Add the following CSS into your theme’s style.css. Be aware that this also hides the counts for all facets of type Checkboxes, Radio and Hierarchy.

How to use custom CSS?
CSS code can be placed in your (child) theme's style.css file. Alternatively, you can add it manually between <style> tags in the <head> section, in your (child) theme's header.php file. You can also load it with a hook in your (child) theme's functions.php file, or in the Custom Hooks add-on. To load the code only on pages with facets, use the facetwp_scripts hook. To load it on all pages, use wp_head or wp_footer.  Or you can use a code snippets plugin. More info
.facetwp-counter {
  display: none;
}

If you need to be specific about which (type of) facet to hide the counts for, use any of the following styles:

How to use custom CSS?
CSS code can be placed in your (child) theme's style.css file. Alternatively, you can add it manually between <style> tags in the <head> section, in your (child) theme's header.php file. You can also load it with a hook in your (child) theme's functions.php file, or in the Custom Hooks add-on. To load the code only on pages with facets, use the facetwp_scripts hook. To load it on all pages, use wp_head or wp_footer.  Or you can use a code snippets plugin. More info
/* Hide counts in all facets with a radio UI (Range List facet in UI modes "None" or "Radio", Radio facet)  */
.facetwp-radio .facetwp-counter {
  display: none;
}

/* Hide counts in all facets with a checkboxes UI (Range List facet in UI mode "Checkboxes", Checkboxes facet)  */
.facetwp-checkbox .facetwp-counter {
  display: none;
}

/* Hide counts in all Range List facets in UI mode "None", "Radio" or "Checkboxes" */
[data-type="range_list"] .facetwp-counter {
  display: none;
}

/* Hide counts in a specific Range List facet in UI mode "None", "Radio" or "Checkboxes" */
.facetwp-facet-yourfacetname .facetwp-counter {
  display: none;
}

UI type set to “Dropdown” or “fSelect”

To hide counts from all facets of a type that use a dropdown UI (all Range List facets in dropdown or fSelect UI mode, Dropdown facets, fSelect facets, and Hierarchy Select facets), add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

How to use custom PHP code?
PHP code can be added to your (child) theme's functions.php file. Alternatively, you can use the Custom Hooks add-on, or a code snippets plugin. More info
add_filter( 'facetwp_facet_dropdown_show_counts', '__return_false' );

If you want to hide counts from specific facets with a dropdown UI, then use this instead:

How to use custom PHP code?
PHP code can be added to your (child) theme's functions.php file. Alternatively, you can use the Custom Hooks add-on, or a code snippets plugin. More info
add_filter( 'facetwp_facet_dropdown_show_counts', function( $return, $params ) {
  if ( 'your_facet_name' == $params['facet']['name'] ) {
    $return = false;
  }
  return $return;
}, 10, 2 );

Translate range labels

To translate range labels, you can use the facetwp_facet_display_value hook. This example is for when you are using WPML (use line 7 instead of line 4 for Polylang):

How to use custom PHP code?
PHP code can be added to your (child) theme's functions.php file. Alternatively, you can use the Custom Hooks add-on, or a code snippets plugin. More info
add_filter( 'facetwp_facet_display_value', function( $label, $params ) {

  // Get current language for WPML:
  $lang = ( !empty( FWP()->facet->http_params['lang'] ) ) ? FWP()->facet->http_params['lang'] : apply_filters( 'wpml_current_language', null );
 
  // Get current language for Polylang:
  // $lang = ( !empty( FWP()->facet->http_params['lang'] ) ) ? FWP()->facet->http_params['lang'] : pll_current_language(); 

  switch ( $lang ) {
    case 'nl' :
      if ( '€ 100 and up' == $label ) {
        $label = '€ 100 en hoger';
      }
      break;
    case 'fr':
      if ('€ 100 and up' == $label) {
        $label = '€ 100 et plus';
      }
      break;
  }
  return $label;
}, 20, 2 );

Alternatively, you can change facet choices into translatable strings with the facetwp_facet_render_args hook.

Create an age bracket facet

The Range List facet is the perfect facet type to create an age-bracket facet. If you have the age value as an actual number value in a custom field, then just select that field as the facet’s data source.

But what if you don’t have the age, but (birth) dates (stored as YYYY-MM-DD values)? Add the following snippet to your (child) theme’s functions.php. It calculates the age from the (birth) date, and then stores the age value in the facet’s technical facet_value (as shown in the URL) and the facet_display_value (as shown in the facet range choices).

Make sure to re-index after adding this snippet or making changes to it.

How to use custom PHP code?
PHP code can be added to your (child) theme's functions.php file. Alternatively, you can use the Custom Hooks add-on, or a code snippets plugin. More info
add_filter( 'facetwp_index_row', function( $params, $class ) {
  if ( 'my_facet_name' == $params['facet_name'] ) { // Replace "my_facet_name" to the name of your date-based facet

    $raw_value = $params['facet_value']; // (birth) date needs to be in YYYY-MM-DD format

    $birthdate = new DateTime( $raw_value );
    $now = new DateTime('now');
    $interval = $birthdate->diff( $now );
    $age = $interval->y; // age in years
    
    $params['facet_value'] = $age;
    $params['facet_display_value'] = $age;

  }
  return $params;
}, 10, 2 );

See also

• The Radio facet type
• The Dropdown facet type
• The fSelect facet type
• The Checkboxes facet type
• Using the facetwp_i18n hook to translate facet labels and strings
• The facetwp_facet_display_value hook
• Using FacetWP with WPML or Polylang
• Indexing
• The facetwp_index_row hook