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I have found the culprit! It was a setting I had never found in LastPass which autofilled the title field when I tried to create a new page. Deleting that in LastPass solved my problem. But thank you for your help which I very much appreciated.

Hey, Joey,

Thanks for the reply. I’ve loaded a cache plugin (Comet Cache Lite) without success. So I think I might now need to reinstall WordPress from scratch into an empty directory. I don’t want to start reloading all the media and text (there’s a lot of it) but wonder if saving and reinstating the wp-content folder might just retain whatever code might be the cause.

All and any advice gratefully received.

Hi, Tobias,

That is exactly it! Interesting thing about coders and coding is that the terms they use and not always entirely transparent to beginners like me! Hence I did not realise, foolishly, that it was the pagination option I needed to change. I’ve now done it and, of course, it’s successful.

But if you ever get a minute, and I realise that this is all fairly trivial stuff from a beginner, it would be interesting to know if I could change the other options in that select list: I don’t really see that I will ever need 100 rows visible at any time and I don’t really want to give that option to the visitor. But it isn’t urgent.

Best wishes,
Trevor

Hi, Tobias,

Sorry, but may I presume upon your help for one more tweak? I want to offer just 5 entries on the page to fit the screen better. I can see that it’s a “select/option value” list in the HTML but how can I add the line <option value=”5″>5</option> to the coding?

Best wishes,
Trevor
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Dear TobiasAha! And here is the result! A total of 2392 rows, all searchable! What a brilliant plugin!

https://www.trevorsweb.net/?page_id=838

Many, many thanks both for the plugin and for your patience and your help.

Yours sincerely,
Trevor

Hi. I see the problem. The data came originally from a Microsoft Access database via an export, and some text manipulation in Word which might be where the rogue quotation marks came from. I think I must now revisit the original and do it better! Thank you so much for your time and your courtesy. Yours, Trevor

Hello, Tobias,

I’m grateful for your prompt response. I wondered if it was the syntax of my file. The4 link is below.

Best wishes,
Trevor
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The csv file

Thank you, Tobias. Life was much less complicated when we didn’t worry about security settings, anti-virus, malware, bots and phishing scams… But meanwhile, exploring other similar plug-ins, I’m advised that they are not suitable for data running to 9,6669 items each with 7 sub-items, so I’m going to opt for a different mySQL approach instead. But I will of course go on using TablePress for the other tables in my site.

Thank you for your plug-in, thank you for your support, and thank you for your patience.

Yours,
Trevor
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Hello, Tobias,

I am grateful that you help me sort out my foolishness and not finding the advanced editor among the screen options. I wonder if I might pick your brains once more about a script error which has occurred when trying to preview a table. The table is quite large, some 9669 lines, which I suspect might be the root of the problem, bed I don’t know what the limits are for TablePress. The the script error is shown in the attached screen grab.

Yours sincerely,
Trevor

Hi, Tobias,

Not quite. I see the “Preview” button is both on the list of tables and when I have clicked on the edit table option. And when I click the preview button, a preview comes up but I can’t see how to edit it. I’ll put three printscreen images below to show you what happens.

Trevor

Hi, Tobias,

Thank you for your response. I apologise to not having responded in return as swiftly.

Mysteriously the advanced editor now appears in TablePress, but the preview of my tables have now disappeared. Since we last corresponded I have deactivated, uninstalled and then reinstalled TablePress. Any further assistance would be of great help.

Yours sincerely,
Trevor.

Thank you for your very detailed and helpful reply. You are absolutely right: I should bite the bullet and learn some PHP rather than rely on the “customise” facility on my themes. I’m also very grateful for the timely reminder to use a child theme for the sake of safety!

Anyway, I’m very happy to report that following an afternoon of simply playing around with various PHP files in my child theme, I have achieved the result I was looking for! I still need to do some CSS styling to make it look prettier, but I am a very happy chap right now!

So again, thank you very much indeed for your help which will extend far beyond this particular piece of PHP coding.

With very best wishes,
Trevor Jordan

Thank you for the prompt reply, Michelle. I looked at those two plugins but they list contributors and members rather than items found in my search, so my quest continues! I’ve learned a lot on this journey, but not yet enough!

Best wishes,
Trevor
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I have a similar problem with one of my two WP sites. One of them is fine: several themes available and useable. On the other site I can’t install a new theme (I’ve tried both Atahualpa and Erudite: both work fine on the other site) and get the “Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature” error.

Earlier I just go the endless “Unpacking…” message.

I’ve tried removing a file from wp_options as advised by the Atahualpa people: didn’t work.

I’ve put “AddType x-mapp-php5 .php” in an .htaccess file in the root of the site: doesn’t work.

I’ve tried installing the themes from the Dashboard (install themes and via upload) and via FTP… still no joy.

I’m using WP 3.0.1 and Windows 7.

Please, what else should I try?