[Plugin: WP-Table Reloaded] WP-Tables Search Function

Hello Tobias,

thank you for your great plugin. I follow the instructions you gave above in two demo sites. I have managed to work the filter select boxes properly to one here Demo1. In the second demo site Demo2 with the same code the filter select boxes works, but the search, sorting and the pagination do not load at the page.

Any help you can give would be appreciated.

Panos

Hi,

basically you are suffering from the same problem as here:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wp-table-reloaded-pagination-issue-with-in-place
Only, in your case, the problem is with the domain prefix www. and not the ending (.org).

This probably happens because of a conflict in the URLs that you use.
WordPress is configured to be at https://www.turbo-mechanika.com, while you called it without the www. prefix in the seocnd link. This unfortunately causes a JavaScript problem (see https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wp-table-reloaded-alternate-row-highlighting-not-working?replies=7 for technical details).

So, you will have to decide: Either use www. all the time, or never. Then WordPress needs to be configured accordingly (with the “Site URL” and “WordPress URL” parameters in the options).
I believe, you have configured the “WordPress URL” differently to the “Site URL” in the WordPress options, right?

Regards,
Tobias

I basically have the same issue that’s described in this thread but what I don’t understand is where to modify the code. You mention “Then change the last section of the code to…” but where does that code reside?

Hi,

with “last section of the code”, I mean the code for the actual filtering, from https://datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/api/multi_filter_select.html

Regards,
Tobias

Hi Tobias
Fantastic plugin, It really is a work of art.

Only one problem for me. All was working fine on a list of around 300 street names. Pagination and search were both working.

Logged in today no search function and no pagination. I changed the settings to display the full list. Still no pgination etc.
I then changed settings back to a shorter list of say 30 rows but table would not change back to this and stayed at full length.
Any ideas?

https://bisfhouse.com/register-of-all-bisf-house-locations-uk/

My best regards

Marc

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This may also help others as I have just found out what was stopping my Java search functions from working.

IF you have W3 Total Cache plugin installed on your wordpress site you must NOT select ENABLE MINIFY in the plugins settings menu as it will disable your java functions in WP-Tables-Reloaded

Hi,

thanks for posting your solution! Yes, indeed, at this time, minification and concatenation of the scripts via W3 Total Cache can cause trouble, unfortuantely.

It is the best choice to exclude the files from being processed by W3 Total Cache.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

I’m also struggling to get this type of filter working with my table. I’ve done all the things mentioned in this topic, but I have to admit that I am a beginner with wordpress, this plugin, datatables, Js(Query), HiFi, etc.
So I have looked all over the internet to find a proper tutorial, but I have not found anything so far.

My table can be found at https://www.kiesjesloep.nl. As you can see, the entire website is the default wordpress page, and also the table only contains one firm offering their boat for rent (at different capacities of people).

If anyone can help me, or point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it very much!

Kind regards,

T

Hi,

thanks for your post.

Unfortunately, at the moment, I’m very busy and don’t have the time to help with this in detail, i.e. by explaining it step by step or by assisting with getting it to work. Thanks for your understanding.

If you want to add custom JavaScript functionality through the DataTables API or its plugins, it is usually the best, to manually invoke the DataTables call on the table.
That means, that you should disable the usage of the DataTables library by WP-Table Reloaded (on the “Edit” screen of the table) and do the entire initialisation of the library by yourself (by placing the corresponding code in the footer of the page with the table, e.g. through a page template).
Basically this would then resemble the demo files from DataTables: WP-Table Reloaded then only brings the HTML of the table to your page, while you have entire manual control over the JavaScript features.
A good starting point might be https://datatables.net/blog/Getting_started_with_DataTables%3A_First_steps
Once this is working, you can go on by using the code for the multiple filter select.

Regards,
Tobias