Michael Clark replied 2 months ago

Thanks, @Rob LeVine. I appreciate the suggestion. Datatables is indeed impressive. The UX I've designed had UI elements that are grid driven, not tabluar. I could absu=olutely change things up to use this, though, for sure.

Increasingly, I'm hitting a wall where I need to introduce more and more custom code to get the fundamental experience and functionality I require. Not a bd thing, but as a soloist, I have to consider the costs of maintaining, fixing, and scaling things. Hence why I was wondering if there was a simple, perhaps documented but not easy to get at way of handling this natively. Looks like custom search is the way, unless I build this outside of WP altogether and then make it an integration.

Michael Clark replied 2 months ago

Thanks, @Bobby Clapp. Appreciate the suggestion.

Bobby Clapp replied 2 months ago

Sure. Here is some quick pulled example I'm using for "grid" style stuff, if it might help you:

https://codepen.io/Dgodfather-Administrator/pen/xxNVQoX

Not perfect and not styled, but something you can use for guidance.

Michael Clark replied 2 months ago

Wow. Thanks, @Bobby Clapp! I'm not sure how to implement this, but if I figure it out how to do the buttons (simple css-styled Button Name , or an actual html button tag?) and if/how to do the onClick event, I'll definitely give this a shot!

Bobby Clapp replied 2 months ago

Give it a whirl. Sometimes people just need example code to play with. This is a bit overkill, because it has all of my CSS for my website, but you could break it down and manipulate it to work. I've just got some CSS styling an anchor to look like a button for the "filter buttons".