Filters and Blocks: Data and Counting

— title: Filter Editor Filters: Data and Counting Options description: Manual Reference for count, empty value, sorting, and term limit options. doc_type: reference section: Filter Editor audience: Store owners, catalog managers, developers, and support manual_reference: true parent_page: reference/filter-editor-filters-blocks.md option_count: 5 updated: 2026-05-24 source_refs: – _docs/Final/options/fe-tab2-filters.md – _docs/Final/html/05_tab2.html ai_summary: Covers count display, empty values, term sorting, numeric sorting, and term limits. status: needs-verification —

This page covers Data And Counting options for individual filter blocks in the Filter Editor. Use it with the Filters and Blocks index when navigating the full block-level Reference.

Data And Counting

Show Count

• Public label: Show Count
• Location: Filter Editor > Filters / Blocks > Data & Counting
• Type: Toggle
• Default value: On in the current HTML example; source table leaves it unset.
• Shown when: Block type supports term or range counts and the block is not in menu mode.
• Availability: Free
• What it does: Shows the number of matching products beside each value.
• When to use: Enable counts when shoppers benefit from seeing which values have enough results.
• Side effects / performance notes: Live counts can add work on large catalogs, especially when many values recalculate after each selection.
• Related options: Hide Counts After Filtering, Recount Products, Count Parent With Children, Count Calculation Mode.

Hide Empty

• Public label: Hide Empty
• Location: Filter Editor > Filters / Blocks > Data & Counting
• Type: Toggle
• Default value: On in the current HTML example; source table leaves it unset.
• Shown when: The block supports empty-value hiding and Always Show All Terms and menu mode are off.
• Availability: Free
• What it does: Hides values that have zero matching products on initial page load.
• When to use: Keep it on when you want to prevent dead-end clicks from the start.
• Side effects / performance notes: If a value is expected but invisible, check whether it has matching products or whether this setting is hiding it.
• Related options: Hide Empty After Filtering, Always Show All Terms, Adaptive Filtering.

Sort By

• Public label: Sort By
• Location: Filter Editor > Filters / Blocks > Data & Counting
• Type: Select
• Default value: Name
• Shown when: The block has a sortable list of values.
• Availability: Free
• What it does: Sets the order of values inside the block, such as by name, count, custom order, or ID.
• When to use: Use Name for familiar alphabetical lists, Count for popularity-style ordering, and Custom when the store needs editorial ordering.
• Side effects / performance notes: Custom Sort Order overrides this setting.
• Related options: Custom Sort Order, Sort as Numbers.

Sort as Numbers

• Public label: Sort as Numbers
• Location: Filter Editor > Filters / Blocks > Data & Counting
• Type: Toggle
• Default value: Off
• Shown when: The block has sortable text values.
• Availability: Pro
• What it does: Sorts numeric-looking labels as numbers, so values like 1, 2, and 10 appear in numeric order.
• When to use: Enable it for sizes, volumes, lengths, or other numeric attributes stored as labels.
• Side effects / performance notes: It changes sorting semantics only; it does not change the labels themselves.
• Related options: Sort By.

Max Terms Show

• Public label: Max Terms Show
• Location: Filter Editor > Filters / Blocks > Data & Counting
• Type: Number
• Default value: Empty; 0 means show all.
• Shown when: The block has a list of values.
• Availability: Pro
• What it does: Limits how many values are visible before the remaining values are placed behind a show-more control.
• When to use: Use it for long lists that would otherwise dominate the page.
• Side effects / performance notes: This controls visible list length; it is different from virtualization, which controls rendering cost.
• Related options: Search in Filter, Max Height, Show More / Show Less labels.