Filter with category (stacked) count
I'm starting on a new project in which i need a faceted search. I've added a screenshot of the filter. Is it possible (/easy) with low search to make this for a site that should have about 300.000 unique visitors a month?
Kind regards,
Rick
top to bottom there is a keyword filter, alphabetic or popular filter, category filter, brand filter (not visible in this view), budget filter
all with a live count of results
Replies
Low 28 May 2013 07:45
Almost possible. And "easy" is relative... :)
Building the filters is a definite yes. The only 'but' is, the entry counts next to the categories. Due to the nature of EE's channel entries module, that is not possible at the moment.
rickvandeven 28 May 2013 09:54
Are there any current developments that will make this possible in the near future?
So you say the filter is a definite yes. With this plugin i could make the filters, let them work together and do an update with ajax/jquery to show relevant results?
for the filters i can use categories / custom fields and make them work together?
And the site will still be fast?
Thanks for your reply!
Rick
Low 28 May 2013 10:00
There needs to be a change in EE's way of doing things for this to work, so it's mainly up to EllisLab to provide a better API for fetching channel entries.
Yes.
Yes, you can work with categories, or custom fields, or both. I'd recommend using categories where you can, as that makes creating several filters easier and somewhat faster as well.
That depends on lots of things, of course. But the queries generated by Low Search are fairly lightweight, and should impact performance minimally.