Filter by category so that only those locations are shown on a leaflet map?

[IFRANL (Ita Pronk)]

I created a custom post type for dealers. Via a loop through these custom post types, I can display those dealers on a Leaflet map. There are 4 categories of products that dealers can sell. Some dealers sell 1 type of product, some sell 2 or more.
Now I would like that at the front end the visitor can check 1 or more products (categories), after which only those dealers who offer those category products will be shown.

What is the smartest way to do this with Loops & Logic and Tangible Blocks?

(PS: I also looked at Control blocks, but understand that this is only for the backend).

I hope someone can help me on my way, many thanks in advance! And if there are any additional questions, feel free to ask!

Cheers,
Ita

[benjamin (Benjamin Tracy)]

This thread might be useful for you:

User post filter based on tag etc

Hi Phil, at the moment L&L doesn’t include a native way to build faceted searching/filtering. You’re right that the pagination option uses ajax to modify what’s being displayed after the page has loaded which I believe is the same process used by most faceted search/filter plugins. While there isn’t currently native functionality for this, we’ve used L&L on some of our own site builds to create something like this using FacetWP, which we’ve roughly documented here. Basically, you’re using FacetW…

Basically, the two approaches I’ve seen people use on this forum involve either using FacetWP (requires some PHP tinkering) or creating links that have URL query parameters like mysite.com/?category=type1 and then using the Url tag’s query attribute to modify your L&L template based on the value of the parameter in the current URL.

I hope that’s helpful for you!

[IFRANL (Ita Pronk)]

Hi Benjamin, thank you so much, with your instruction it did indeed work! Now I still have to figure out how to make everything show at the start

Thanks so much!
Ita