Pre-filtering results on a View

There are two ways to pre-filter your View results:

1. By using parameters from the [gravityview] shortcode

The [gravityview] shortcode contains two parameters that can be used to filter your View: search_valueand search_field.

Pros: Ability to change the value used to filter results just by changing the search_value parameter. This way, you will need to create only one View configuration without filters that you can embed on multiple pages, using different filters.

Cons: You can only filter by one value at a time. To filter by multiple values, you will need to use the Advanced Filter extension (see below).

[gravityview id="12" search_field="3" search_value="Alabama"]

To learn more about how to pre-filter results using these two parameters ( search_field and search_value ), check out this article: Using the [gravityview] Shortcode.

2. By using the Advanced Filters extension

If you have our Advanced Filter extension installed, you'll see this new section on your View Settings metabox:

Screenshot of Advanced Filter extension filters filtering by logged-in status and the first name of a field.

You can configure multiple filters to precisely specify the entries you want displayed.

Pros: You can specify several different rules to narrow down your results.

Cons: The rules will to the entire View, so if you need to filter by different conditions, you'll need to create other Views for each purpose.