FacetWP – Pods Integration

Browse to Settings > FacetWP and create a new facet.

In the facet’s “Data source” dropdown, you’ll see a “Pods” header with all the fields you’ve created. Just choose one of these Pods fields.

To use Pods fields in the Listing Builder, in the “Display” tab, select the field from the Listing Builder’s item selection dropdown when adding a new item. In the “Query” tab, Pods fields can be chosen in the “Sort by” or “Narrow results by” dropdowns.

In a Sort facets “Sort options” setting, Pods custom fields can be selected as fields to sort by.

Finally, click on the “Query” tab to define which post type(s) to fetch, and other query-related settings.

Using taxonomy term custom fields as facet data source

With Pods, you can add custom fields to taxonomy terms. When you set such a custom term field as the data source in a facet, you will notice that the facet does not display any choices. This is because custom fields attached to taxonomy terms cannot be indexed directly by FacetWP.

However, with a bit of custom code, using a custom term field as data source is possible. See this section on the Advanced Custom Fields page. The instructions and custom code for Pods are exactly the same.