Advanced AJAX Product Filters vs Super Speedy Filters
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Overview of Advanced AJAX Product Filters
WOOF – WooCommerce Products Filter is a powerful product filtering plugin that lets visitors filter by category, attributes, tags, price, and custom taxonomies using AJAX without page reloads.
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How Super Speedy Filters differs from Advanced AJAX Product Filters
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.
How to choose between Advanced AJAX Product Filters and Super Speedy Filters?
For stores where page speed translates directly into revenue, the comparison between Advanced AJAX Product Filters and Super Speedy Filters is worth examining carefully. Super Speedy Filters's SQL-first design means performance is built into the architecture rather than bolted on afterwards. Every release is tested against a one-million-product WooCommerce catalogue, so performance scales with your store rather than against it. Try it on your staging environment using the free trial — you will see the difference immediately.
What do others say about Super Speedy Filters?
I came to this plugin because I needed an all-in-one solution for filtering on my client's webshop with custom taxonomies. I tried many other filtering plugins, but they were way too slow (Took 10+ sec to load the filtered products), or they were not able to display the custom taxonomies with the basic product categories. This plugin has it all, it's fast (makes a product filter under 2 sec on 3000+ products and 10000+ variations), and it has all the options to make the filter as you really want it. Works perfectly together with the Super Speedy Search plugin.
This is the third plugin i bought! Faster isn't close to how fast woo widgets load! Excellent plugin!!!
Hey Dave, this works quite well on soundorabilia.com. I have a slight issue though: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() On that location: wp-content/plugins/faster-woo-widgets/faster-woo-widgets.php:3992 fww_getseotitle() wp-content/plugins/faster-woo-widgets/faster-woo-widgets.php:4119 fww_set_title() wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:287 apply_filters('pre_get_document_title') wp-includes/general-template.php:1135 wp_get_document_title() wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/presenters/title-presenter.php:39 Yoast\W\S\P\Title_Presenter->get() wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/presenters/abstract-indexable-tag-presenter.php:35 Yoast\W\S\P\Abstract_Indexable_Tag_Presenter->present() wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/integrations/front-end-integration.php:267 Yoast\W\S\I\Front_End_Integration->present_head() wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:287 do_action('wpseo_head') wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/integrations/front-end-integration.php:242 Yoast\W\S\I\Front_End_Integration->call_wpseo_head() wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:287 do_action('wp_head') wp-includes/general-template.php:3006 wp_head() wp-content/themes/flatsome/header.php:10 load_template('wp-content/themes/flatsome/header.php') wp-includes/template.php:676 locate_template() wp-includes/general-template.php:48 get_header('shop') wp-content/themes/flatsome/woocommerce/archive-product.php:20 Cheers mate
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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