UltraFilter vs Super Speedy Filters
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Get Super Speedy Filters →Comparing UltraFilter with Super Speedy Filters? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.
Overview of UltraFilter
UltraFilter is a product filtering plugin from Themify that provides AJAX-driven attribute, category, tag, and price filtering for WooCommerce. It is designed to integrate with Themify themes but is also compatible with other themes and uses a clean, straightforward setup.
How Super Speedy Filters differs from UltraFilter
All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and Super Speedy Filters is no different. Here is what sets it apart:
The SQL-first WooCommerce product filters plugin. Category, brand, attribute and custom taxonomy filters that stay fast whether you have 5,000 products or a million, with the best archive SEO control of any filter plugin we have tested.
- Instant AJAX filtering so shoppers keep browsing instead of bouncing
- Smart Variations – filter to ‘red’ and see the in-stock red variant, then click straight through to it
- Long-tail SEO URLs like /product-category/dogs/brand/dogsrus/colour/white/ to pull in Google traffic
- Colour, image and swatch filters, dropdowns, popouts, ranges and more
- Works with every builder – Elementor, Oxygen, Beaver Builder, Themify and the rest
Rated 5 out of 5 across 13 reviews, and backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee.
UltraFilter delivers clean AJAX filtering but uses standard WooCommerce query modifications under the hood, which limits performance on large catalogues. Super Speedy Filters pre-computes filter data into dedicated SQL tables, delivering consistently fast filter responses regardless of how large your product catalogue becomes.
How to choose between UltraFilter and Super Speedy Filters?
UltraFilter is a solid option within the Themify ecosystem, but catalogue size will eventually catch up with any plugin that relies on standard WooCommerce queries. Super Speedy Filters is built to handle scale — dedicated SQL tables, tested against one-million products, with a free trial available.
What do others say about Super Speedy Filters?
Best effing Woo filter on the planet. Period. All other filters turn to DB to get terms and stock levels. This is fine with small sites. 18k products. Sort by brand? Dynamically populated filters based on category contents? YITH, Themify etc – you know that it adds around 9 seconds to page load. Hell no. With SSF i can barely notice speed difference but filters work like they suppose to.
This plugin is absolutely amazing! There is no comparison to anything available on the market, whether free or paid. It transforms large WooCommerce stores, even those with 80K+ products, to perform like small, single-product stores. The results are displayed instantly. Very impressive!
I have used scalability pro, super speedy filters and super speedy search in multiple sites. All of them work great and boosted speed greatly! The support in Discord is fast and reliable, and bugs are fixed super fast. I'm so happy I have found these plugins! Thank you
Super Speedy Filters Knowledge Base
View full Knowledge Base →- Adjusting imports to work with Super Speedy Filters
- How to upload and activate the Super Speedy Filters plugin
- PHP SEO Filters for Super Speedy Filters
- Removing the slow WooCommerce code
- Adding description to category
- Confirming Brand landing page works
- Making sure categories appear in the shop archive
- Ordering by price with products that have no price
- Page-2 loading Page-1 products when there aren't enough products
- Radio Display Type buttons filling in
- Show/Hide search box
- Variable product – Color
Articles about Super Speedy Filters
View all articles →- Bug fix sprint
- Adding a custom taxonomy widget to Faster Woo Widgets
- December Development Update
- More beta updates available
- Faster Woo Widgets beta
- Dev Diary #7
- Dev Diary #6
- Dev Diary #4
- Dev diary #3
- Dev Diary #2
Super Speedy Filters compared versus other products
What's new in Super Speedy Filters?
6.36.1 (7th July 2026)
- Fixed the "Show but delay execution" filter still not loading on search results on some sites (typically HTTPS/staging). The lazy-load request used an absolute REST URL from `rest_url()`, which could come back as `http://` or a different host and be blocked by the browser before any request was sent, so nothing showed in the network tab. It now uses a root-relative URL that always matches the page's own scheme and host.
6.36 (4th July 2026)
- Improved delayed filters ("Show but delay execution") staying empty on search results pages. Two causes: the lazy-load request used a hard-coded /wp-json/ address that failed on sites using plain permalinks or forcing trailing slashes (the browser cached the redirect, so the request silently never completed), and the endpoint that builds the filter was re-deferring it instead of rendering its options. Filters now load correctly regardless of your permalink settings. If a filter was previously stuck empty, clear your page/object cache after updating.
6.35 (3rd July 2026)
- Fixed the per-filter "Show but delay execution" option on search results pages. Previously the deferred filter only ever populated when it was inside a popout/popover container; with "No container" (and minimizable/accordion) the filter box showed but its options never loaded. Now every container type works: filters in a container load when the shopper opens/hovers/expands them, and filters with no container load automatically just after the page finishes rendering. Updated the option's help tooltip to explain this and recommend (but not require) a container.
- Fixed filter counts falling back to the slower query path on stores that use Super Speedy Listings (formerly Super Speedy Archives) to build the object_ancestors table. SSF now recognises the Listings-built table for its fast filter-count path instead of only its own copy, via a shared readiness check (ssf_object_ancestors_ready()).
- Fixed `wp ssf rebuild` leaving the object-ancestors "table ready" status stuck showing "processing" on sites with a persistent object cache (Redis/Memcached). The rebuild now clears the cached status flags so the table is correctly reported as ready — previously this could mislead the admin notices and the automatic rebuild trigger until the cache expired.
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