Improvements for filterbar

[Nico]

Hi,
i purchased the filterbar 4.0 and it’s certainly is a usefull plugin.
For the next version i’ve some suggestions for improvement.

Suggestion 1: Overriding css en views
In your code you can override the css by placing it in a filterbar sub-directorie.
//Check for override stylesheet
$user_stylesheet_url = Tribe__Events__Templates::locate_stylesheet( ‘tribe-events/filterbar/filter-view.css’ );

However to override the views i need to place them in the subdirectorie filter-bar.
Can you fix this so it’s the same sub-directory for views and css?

Suggestion 2: H3 tags inside filterbar.
The titleheaders of the various filters are placed inside a H3-tag (See Tribe/filter.php).
This however makes a mesh of the SEO header-hierarchy of my page.
More info see eg. https://www.woorank.com/nl/p/headings-tags.

Can you please replace this H3 with another tag like a div?

Suggestion 3: Title of tab is set to undefined after filtering.
When i use the filterbar the title of my tab of my browser (firefox) is set to “undefined”.
Any ideas what’s the cause of this?

Suggestion 4: Horizontal Filtering
I want users to click as less as possible. Is it possible to hide the open and close span inside the h3-filtertitle and show the filters always open? For an example see https://code95.nl/agenda/

Thanks and keep up the good work.

[Geoff]

Hey Nico,

Thanks so much for the kind words and suggestions! I’m stoked to hear that you not only love using Filter Bar but care enough to dig deep into it and provide some stellar suggestions.

I would imagine that #1 can be achieved with our template override structure, particularly those for customizing calendar styles.

#2 sounds like an interesting idea. Admittedly, Filter Bar isn’t the most customizable plugin, so any ideas you have would be awesome to see on our feature request forum, if you would like to share them there.

#3 might either be a theme or plugin conflict. Do you happen to have Yoast SEO installed? I’ve seen conflicts in the (way) past reporting something similar and wonder if that could be the source. Then again, a conflict test is often the best approach for finding out.

#4 would take a fair level of custom development, I’m afraid. I bet it would be possible, though probably not without touching core file, which is something I would not recommend for the sake of future updates. Could be another good instance of sharing a feature request.

Thanks again for the writing in and sharing your thoughts! Is there anything else I can help you with, or does this help cover things for now?

Cheers!
Geoff

[Nico]

Added suggestion #1 and #2 to the request forum.

[Geoff]

You rock! Thanks so much dude, and thanks again for the feedback. 🙂

Geoff

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