{"id":2350,"date":"2026-10-20T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/advanced-search-filter-dropdown\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:39:57","slug":"advanced-search-filter-dropdown","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/advanced-search\/advanced-search-filter-dropdown\/","title":{"rendered":"How to show an Advanced Search filter as a dropdown instead of behind the filter button"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In GeoDirectory Advanced Search, fields you add to the search form go into a filters panel. Visitors open it with the filter (cog) button next to the search button. To show a select or multiselect field as a dropdown in the search bar itself, move it to the main search bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Put the field in the main search bar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to Places &gt; Settings &gt; Search (or the Search tab of your own post type).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the field you want, for example your multiselect field.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turn on the option to show it in the main search bar, and set its position in the bar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Save the field.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the main bar every field shows as a single dropdown, the same style as the category dropdown. Select, multiselect, radio, checkbox, category, date, time, open hours, rating and distance fields can go in the bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Choose how a field looks in the filters panel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For fields that stay in the filters panel, the Input type setting decides how the options are shown: Dropdown, Checkboxes, Radio buttons or Links. Use Checkboxes if visitors should be able to tick more than one option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keep the filters panel open<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;d rather keep the fields in the filters panel but not hide them behind the button, edit your GD &gt; Search block or widget and set Open customize filters to Always open. To show only the filters, without the main bar, set Show to Advanced filters only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More detail is in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/advanced-search\/advanced-search-setup-guide\/\">Advanced Search setup guide<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/advanced-search\/how-to-add-a-filter-to-the-main-search-bar\/\">How to add a filter to the main search bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In GeoDirectory Advanced Search, fields you add to the search form go into a filters panel. Visitors open it with the filter (cog) button next to the search button. To show a select or multiselect field as a dropdown in the search bar itself, move it to the main search bar. Put the field in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[],"article\/categories":[213,400],"class_list":["post-2350","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_placecategory-extensions-features","gd_placecategory-advanced-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2350\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}