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Site Store Pro offers three distinct search and discovery features: an advanced filtering drawer on the shop page, a multi-content live search plugin you can embed anywhere, and a fully featured events calendar with ticket booking. Each works independently, and you can enable or embed them in any combination that fits your storefront.

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Advanced Shop Search Filtering Drawer

The advanced filtering drawer adds a slide-out panel to the /shop page that lets customers narrow results using multiple facets simultaneously. The drawer is off by default — you must enable it manually.

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Enabling the Filter Drawer

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Open Shop Display Settings

Navigate to Admin → Settings → Shop Display.
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Enable the Feature

Toggle Enable Advanced Shop Search Filtering Panel to on and save your settings.
Once enabled, a filter icon or panel trigger appears on the /shop page. Customers open the drawer to access:

Brand Filter

Multi-select checkboxes listing all active brands. Customers can select one or more brands to filter results.

Category Tree

A hierarchical category and subcategory tree selector. Expanding a parent category reveals its children for granular filtering.

Price Range Slider

A dual-handle interactive slider that lets customers set a minimum and maximum price range.

Variant Attribute Accordions

Dynamic accordions generated from your product variant JSON data — for example, Color, Size, and Material. Only attributes present in your active product catalogue appear.
Every selection in the filter drawer automatically synchronises to the page URL as query string parameters. This means customers can bookmark or share a filtered shop URL and return to the exact same filtered view.

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Multi-Content Live Search

The live search plugin delivers instant, real-time results across six content types as the customer types. It calls the internal endpoint /api/live-search-api?q=query and returns matches from: Add the plugin to any CMS page or layout block using its shortcode. Typically you place a mode=input embed where you want the search bar to appear, and a mode=results embed where you want results to render — though both can coexist on the same page.
Parameters:

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Events Calendar

The events calendar plugin renders your upcoming events in a fully interactive view with built-in ticket booking. Event data is managed at the product variant level — each event is represented as a product variant with a date, time, and capacity.

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Embedding the Calendar

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Layout Modes

A 7-column calendar grid showing the current month. Each date cell displays events scheduled for that day.

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Parameters

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Booking Flow

When a customer clicks any event, a glassmorphism modal opens displaying the event details and a Book Event Ticket link that initiates the checkout flow for that event’s product variant.

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Search Index Management

Site Store Pro automatically rebuilds the search index for products and CMS pages every time you save them. For most stores, no manual intervention is required.

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Locking Search Keywords

If you want to append custom search keywords to a product or CMS page without having them overwritten on the next save, enable the Lock Search Keywords option on that record. When locked, your manually entered keywords are preserved regardless of subsequent content changes.
The Artisan command php artisan search:rebuild-index forces a full index rebuild across all content. This is a developer-only tool — run it in a staging environment first and only use it in production when directed by your development team.