my changes are not saving

Hi, Gina.

Thanks for getting in touch and for using our plugin. We’ve tested it to be compatible up until WordPress 5.2.1, so that wouldn’t be causing the issue.

Assuming you’re using the correct shortcode or one that used to work and display your posts table correctly, the issue could be due to some form of caching, either on your web browser, on-site via a caching plugin, or on the web server via caching software or a caching service.

Please try a hard refresh of your browser (Ctrl + F5 on Windows, Cmd + Shift + R on a Mac), and/or clearing the cache of your any caching plugins or servcie (e.g. Cloudflare) that you might have. Then check if the issue persists.

I hope this helps. Please let me know how it goes. I’ll mark this as resolved for now.

Best regards,
Edge

Hi! Thanks for your quick response. It looks like I had a conflict between the short code I entered and the default settings in the actual plugin settings. I had to make that change in the short code, so it works now.

One thing I was wondering is that, when I arrange the columns differently, it reformats the table. I had it as title, content, category and all three fit. But when I arrange it to be category, title, content then it totally reformats it and makes category a “+” and you have to click it to see the category. For my purposes, I want the users to be able to see the category so that they know their search terms are taking them in the right direction. It doesn’t really make sense that the same three categories in a different order wouldn’t fit equally in the page width. So, I made the page wider, but I don’t like the way that looks as much as the more narrow format.

Any advice?

Hi again, Gina.

You are most welcome. Likewise, thanks for your feedback. I’m glad you figured that out.

Note that the options that you include in the shortcode will override any of their counterparts in the plugin settings (which are applied globally or site-wide). The options in the shortcode take importance over the ones in the plugin settings.

About the other issue, unlike the Posts Table Pro version that has Mobile visibility & responsive options that you can use to set which columns to remain visible in which responsive mode/view, the free version makes use of automatic column widths and column priorities in the default column order of: title,content,date,author,category.

When the table can’t fit all the data within the space available (for example, on mobile devices) a “plus” icon appears to the left of each row to allow the user to show or expand the full content.

Since the category column is of a lower priority, displaying it first in the table will cause it to be displayed as collapsed, to ensure that the higher priority columns will have enough space to be displayed.

I hope this makes sense and helps.

Cheers,
Edge