Hello there, hope all is well!

Premise/Context

1) We have a custom post Artists and a (custom post) Products (actually Woocommerce products).
We would like to Filter Products by Artists.

InitiallY, we looked at ways of making the custom post type Artists into a Custom Taxonomy for Products – very complicated and fragile.

So, we have three options :

We created product tags equal to the names of our artists. – this is ok, but it means we cannot use product tags for anything else. We can use your plugin though to filter.

OR

We create a new custom non hierarchical taxonomy (called Released By, with terms equal to our artist names. This works but we cannot filter products with it via your plugin

OR

We use ACF fields (select/checkbox/radio button etc) with choices and values equal to the total list of our artists, as suggested by yourselves. We have a problem with this: all our products are Variable. Our Variable products sit on the shop page and become hidden when filtered, replaced by the individual underlying variations (which appear when filtered, thanks to the plugin Show Single Variations by Iconic). When filtering via the ACF custom field created not product is therefore returned.

Two questions for you:

– would you create a further widget that allows to filter by custom taxonomies? (preferred choice)

– could you assist in making sure the variations appear when being filtered?