Highly recommended
I think this is the best filter plugin. Highly recommended
Simple & Very effectie
As the title says.
Free Features Are Very Limited
Using the filter we created on a single page shouldn’t be a big deal.
ercangulcay
November 17, 2025
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2 replies
Disable filter links for crawlers
Detailed Review: “Disable filter links for crawlers” – A Game-Changer for Crawl Budget & SEO Efficiency I wanted to leave a detailed breakdown of the new “Disable filter links for crawlers” feature, as it addresses one of the most critical structural problems for large WooCommerce stores and high-facet catalogs. The Problem It SolvesIn typical WooCommerce stores using faceted navigation, every filter combination generates a distinct URL. Even if these pages have dynamic noindex tags, or lack active SEO rules, standard crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, and modern AI bots/crawlers) still see physical links on every page. They follow every AND / OR combination endlessly. In my case, this created an inflation of 700,000+ garbage URLs queued for crawling. While these pages offered zero SEO value, crawlers spent massive amounts of resources scanning them, draining the site’s overall crawl budget and putting unnecessary stress on the database. How This Feature WorksWhen enabled, the plugin intelligently alters how filter elements are presented to search bots and AI crawlers versus real users: For real visitors: Seamless UX remains identical. Navigation, AJAX loading, and filtering work without any compromise. For search crawlers: Only URLs with active, custom SEO rules (index, follow) remain as crawlable standard HTML links (). Deep junction links (AND/OR logic) and index-restricted pages without SEO rules no longer contain crawlable href targets for bots. Key Benefits & Real-World ImpactCrawl Budget Optimization: Googlebot stops wasting request quotas on low-value/no-index filter pages. Faster Indexation of Key Pages: Search engines divert 100% of their scanning capacity toward high-value landing pages, active SEO filter pages, and main product categories. Database & Server Load Reduction: Prevents continuous background execution of heavy SQL queries triggered whenever bots hit complex non-indexed filter URLs. Clean Search Engine Diagnostics: Prevents Google Search Console from bloating with hundreds of thousands of URLs under the “Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag” report, keeping your indexing reports clear, actionable, and manageable. SummaryThis feature turns Filter Everything from a basic AJAX filtering tool into an enterprise-grade SEO platform for WooCommerce. If you manage a site with hundreds or thousands of products and attributes, enabling “Disable filter links for crawlers” is an absolute must. Highly recommended!
yuriykargin
September 2, 2026
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2 replies
Excellent Support!
Very nice plugin
Free Features Are Very Limited
Using the filter we created on a single page shouldn’t be a big deal.
ercangulcay
August 27, 2026
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4 replies
Disable filter links for crawlers
Detailed Review: “Disable filter links for crawlers” – A Game-Changer for Crawl Budget & SEO Efficiency I wanted to leave a detailed breakdown of the new “Disable filter links for crawlers” feature, as it addresses one of the most critical structural problems for large WooCommerce stores and high-facet catalogs. The Problem It SolvesIn typical WooCommerce stores using faceted navigation, every filter combination generates a distinct URL. Even if these pages have dynamic noindex tags, or lack active SEO rules, standard crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, and modern AI bots/crawlers) still see physical links on every page. They follow every AND / OR combination endlessly. In my case, this created an inflation of 700,000+ garbage URLs queued for crawling. While these pages offered zero SEO value, crawlers spent massive amounts of resources scanning them, draining the site’s overall crawl budget and putting unnecessary stress on the database. How This Feature WorksWhen enabled, the plugin intelligently alters how filter elements are presented to search bots and AI crawlers versus real users: For real visitors: Seamless UX remains identical. Navigation, AJAX loading, and filtering work without any compromise. For search crawlers: Only URLs with active, custom SEO rules (index, follow) remain as crawlable standard HTML links (). Deep junction links (AND/OR logic) and index-restricted pages without SEO rules no longer contain crawlable href targets for bots. Key Benefits & Real-World ImpactCrawl Budget Optimization: Googlebot stops wasting request quotas on low-value/no-index filter pages. Faster Indexation of Key Pages: Search engines divert 100% of their scanning capacity toward high-value landing pages, active SEO filter pages, and main product categories. Database & Server Load Reduction: Prevents continuous background execution of heavy SQL queries triggered whenever bots hit complex non-indexed filter URLs. Clean Search Engine Diagnostics: Prevents Google Search Console from bloating with hundreds of thousands of URLs under the “Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag” report, keeping your indexing reports clear, actionable, and manageable. SummaryThis feature turns Filter Everything from a basic AJAX filtering tool into an enterprise-grade SEO platform for WooCommerce. If you manage a site with hundreds or thousands of products and attributes, enabling “Disable filter links for crawlers” is an absolute must. Highly recommended!
yuriykargin
September 2, 2026
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2 replies
Excellent Support!
Very nice plugin
Free Features Are Very Limited
Using the filter we created on a single page shouldn’t be a big deal.
ercangulcay
August 27, 2026
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4 replies
Use With Caution – Server load problems with free version
Serious crawler and server overload problems with the free version I have used the free version of this plugin for approx 12–18 months and until recently it did what I needed. The free plugin creates an almost unlimited number of filter URL combinations and due to the increase in AI and automated web crawlers, once crawlers discover the filter URLs they absolutely hammer the site causing server overload / 508 errors and generally makes the website unusable. I have spent the last 3–4 weeks trying to control this through Cloudflare security and rate limiting rules while still allowing legitimate search engines and real customers to use the filters normally. It has not been easy as blocking the filter URL patterns also interferes with genuine customers using multiple filter options. Blocking bots also interferes with legitimate Google indexing damaging SEO. For anyone that doesnt maintain their own site it could become VERY costly to get a developer to fix the damage the free plugin seems to be causing due to the filter URLs. The worst part is that removing the plugin does not solve the problem. Once crawlers have discovered the URLs, they just dont stop! The plugin itself was quite good until this issue started. In its current form I would not recommend the free version unless the developer provides an effective way to prevent crawlers from discovering and repeatedly crawling these filter combinations without breaking the filters for genuine visitors. For me, this has resulted in weeks of unnecessary work, server overload, a website that only works about 30% of the time due to 508 errors and problems with legitimate crawling of the site. This is all directly caused by the free plugin, although the developer does offer a “solution” if you pay for the pro version. Personally I think the free version should have the fix aswell as the way it is now is no good for anyone. If a fix is provided then the plugin is generally good for filtering. Without the fix it creates more problems than it solves.There has also been some other posts in the support forum reporting the same issues.
boosted24
August 19, 2026
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1 reply
Free Features Are Very Limited
Using the filter we created on a single page shouldn’t be a big deal.
ercangulcay
November 17, 2025
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2 replies
Practically useless free version. Does not work with singular pages.
When one looks at the screenshots, the filtering mechanisms offered by this plugin looks excellent. But it is not possible to test them in the free version. Free version only works on archive functions thus I could not really try it out with my own page design. Unfortunately the free/pro comparison chart on their .pro site does not mention this. That would save me time as I would not even try. I wish the free version worked with singleton pages at least with some limited functionality. As it is now, this plugin in Wordpress.org seems to be just a placeholder/redirect page for the pro version. I cannot think of anyone really using the free version in non-amateur site. On the bright side, the price and the terms of the pro version seem to be fair, though one problem remains; you have to buy it before you can even verify it works for your site. Though the .pro site not having any mention of Gutenberg block compatibilty made me feel maybe this plugin works better with the legacy stuff like Elementor. But in any case, it looks good…
