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title: Amenities or pet friendly filter not showing
description: "Your property search Filters panel has no Amenities or Pet Friendly section, so guests cannot filter by amenities. **Why this happens.** Two separate…"
url: "https://homerunner.io/docs/why-is-there-no-amenities-or-pet-friendly-section-in-my-property-search-filters/"
updated: "2026-10-26"
category: Theme and design
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# Amenities or pet friendly filter not showing

Your property search Filters panel has no Amenities or Pet Friendly section, so guests cannot filter by amenities.

**Why this happens.** Two separate settings control this section, and both must be in place. The amenity data on your listings is a third, independent thing and is usually already fine. If the section is not turned on, the entire Features & Amenities block is hidden no matter how your listings are tagged, and there is no warning anywhere in the admin to tell you so.

**What you can do.**

1. **Turn the section on.** In WordPress admin, go to **HomeRunner → Settings → Explorer** and find the **Additional Filter Fields** setting. This controls which sections appear inside the Filters panel. Make sure **Amenities** is ticked.
2. **Choose which amenities appear.** Under the same Explorer settings, there is a separate selection for which amenity terms are offered as filters. Only the amenities you pick here become checkboxes. Selecting them does nothing on its own until step 1 is also done.
3. **Clear your cache and check again.** If your host runs page caching, the search page can keep serving the old version after you save the setting. Load the page with a throwaway query string on the end, for example /properties/?x=1, to bypass the cache and confirm the section is now there. Then purge the cache so normal visitors see it too.

Once enabled, the section appears on every listing surface that carries the search form: the main properties page, region pages, city pages and collection pages.

**Note.** Amenities you select as filters show as checkboxes even when no listing currently carries them, and a guest who ticks one of those gets an empty result page. It is worth reviewing the selected list and removing any amenity that no listing uses yet.

Still stuck? [Contact the HomeRunner team](https://homerunner.io/contact/) with your site address and what you tried, and we take it from there.