WC Lookup vs Super Speedy Filters
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Get Super Speedy Filters →Comparing WC Lookup with Super Speedy Filters? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.
Overview of WC Lookup
WC Lookup is a WooCommerce filtering and live search plugin that combines product filtering with real-time search functionality. It supports filtering by attributes, custom fields, price, and categories with AJAX-powered updates and a straightforward setup interface.
How Super Speedy Filters differs from WC Lookup
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:
Every filter click should feel immediate, even when the catalogue is large. Super Speedy Filters cuts expensive taxonomy work, updates products and filters together, and keeps crawler-heavy filter combinations away from WordPress.
WC Lookup combines filtering and search in a lightweight package, but its query approach still relies on standard WooCommerce database calls at request time. Super Speedy Filters uses dedicated, pre-indexed SQL tables to serve filter results at a consistent speed that standard query-time approaches simply cannot match as catalogue size grows.
How to choose between WC Lookup and Super Speedy Filters?
WC Lookup's combined filter and search functionality is useful for smaller stores, but the standard query-time approach will slow as your catalogue grows. Super Speedy Filters' SQL-first architecture and dedicated tables were designed for exactly that scaling challenge — tested against one-million products, free trial available.
What do others say about Super Speedy Filters?
I tested every filter plugin out there, all of them slowed down the site. Sound familiar? That’s when I found Super Speedy. With lightning-fast load times and outstanding support, any tweaks or fixes are implemented in no time. P.S. Know of any other plugins with live support on Discord? Any support that helps with Query Monitor and other plugins? Exactly. You're looking at your best option.
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!!!
Super Speedy Filters Knowledge Base
View full Knowledge Base →- Colour swatches
- Filters in the block editor
- Inline Product Filters
- SEO Overrides
- Stopping bots crawling your filters
- Using SEO Overrides in Super Speedy Filters
- Adjusting imports to work with Super Speedy Filters
- Auto Configure
- Controlling filters with an AI assistant
- How to upload and activate the Super Speedy Filters plugin
- PHP SEO Filters for Super Speedy Filters
- Removing the slow WooCommerce code
- Setting up a store with an AI assistant
- 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?
6.44.0 (6th August 2026)
- Fixed filtered pages on a Polylang or TranslatePress site in any language other than the default building their SEO title, breadcrumbs and SEO override match from an incomplete filter set, so a French page titled *Buy in Red Online* now reads *Buy Chairs in Red Online*
- Fixed an Exact SEO override written for a translated URL losing to a Contains override on Polylang and TranslatePress sites
- Filtered pages you allow to be indexed now carry correct `hreflang` tags on Polylang sites, listing the equivalent filtered URL in each language with a self-reference and `x-default`, the same as WPML
- Fixed every brand facet on a non-default-language archive being a dead link on Polylang sites, e.g. `/fr/product-category/chaises/fr/brand/ikea-fr/`
- Polylang Pro's translated slugs are now understood, so a French page at `/fr/categorie-produit/chaises/` builds its title, breadcrumbs and filter links from the right terms
- SSF's SEO wording now appears in Polylang under Languages then Translations, in the *Super Speedy Filters* group, including the title prefix and suffix, the connectors, the meta description wording, the browser title suffix, the paginated title text and the on sale prefix
- Every text field on a filter widget can now be translated per language in WPML String Translation or Polylang Translations: the search box placeholder, the clear filters and clear search labels, the group heading, the dropdown text, the required filters tooltip and the stock, on sale and postmeta toggle labels. One widget with translated strings, not one widget per language
- The *Show products on sale* and *Show in stock* wording on the Show Existing Filters widget is translatable too, defaults included
- Swatch colours and term thumbnails fall back to the default language's term, so a palette set once in English shows on every language
- All of SSF's text now uses one `super-speedy-filters` text domain, so a single `.mo` file or Loco Translate covers the plugin
- TranslatePress keeps its own hreflang tags on filtered pages, which are already correct
- Removed the `SSF_POLYLANG` constant and its wp-config setting, replaced by the language handling above, which needs no switch
- Tested up to WordPress 7.0
- The plugin header declares GPLv3 and WordPress 7.0, matching `readme.txt`
- Auto Configure now picks layout and placement on one step before Review, defaulting to a filter bar placed above your products; the one-button layout places itself the same way, and only the sidebar layout asks which sidebar or shortcode area to use
- The layout sets each filter's container, a filter bar makes every filter a popout button, a sidebar removes the containers, and the review previews show exactly what will be created
- Auto Configure defaults changed: hierarchical taxonomies get a list with large images one click away, taxonomies with term images get large image tiles, and taxonomies with colours get colour labels
- Auto Configure shows product counts only on the main hierarchy filter, every other filter it creates hides them
- Brand taxonomies are treated as flat even though WooCommerce registers them hierarchical, so brands with logos get the large image tiles
- On the review step, changing a setting keeps your scroll position, popout containers in the previews open on click, and the step circles at the top navigate back
- The scan summary now reads in groups, posts then taxonomies then terms, and counts the terms carrying colours and images rather than the taxonomies
- Auto Configure's admin script and stylesheet reload automatically after an update, no hard refresh needed
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