[Plugin: Tablepress] Questions

  • Hello, I have a couple of questions pertaining to the Tablepress plugin. I hope these are possible. If not, does anyone know of a table plugin where this is possible? I know I could probably have Excel spreadsheets for each of the things I’m asking, but I would hate to have to update the same thing on multiple spreadsheets and then upload them constantly. Thanks.

    Example of my table:
    Columns: First, Last, State, Age

    1. I want to be able to click a link on one of the cells such as state or age which takes me to every entry that has that has that state/age and excludes everything else. (Ex. Click on GA to bring up every entry that is from Georgia).

    2. I would like to have separate pages for each state while only having to update the master table. (Ex. Have a drop down menu somewhere where I can choose Georgia and it takes me to a page with all entries from the state of Georgia).

    3. I would like to have a page for each region. (Ex. Have a southeast table that linked each entry that included GA, FL, AL etc.) Again, I want to use the master table as opposed to multiple tables.

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  • This is similar to this thread here.

    Tablepress author suggests not using tablepress in favor of a standard table with some jquery.

    Check the last post in that thread about datatables.net.

    Hi,

    thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

    Just as OrgSpring mentions, this is not that easy, and it will require some extra work by you.
    Using a master table with all your information should not be a problem, and the best choice to narrow it down to the smaller tables (which are to be displayed on the single pages) should be to use the Filtering Extension from https://tablepress.org/extensions/row-filter/
    With that, you will get a new Shortcode parameter so that you can use different Shortcodes on the individual pages for each state/region (which you will have to create manually however).

    You could then manually create a drop down with some HTML code and use JavaScript to perform the redirect to the desired page after something is chosen from the drop down list.

    Regards,
    Tobias

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