Column filtering

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

Unfortunately, I’ll have to disappoint you here. So far, I only developed a Row Filter Extension, and due to time constraints don’t have plans to add a Column Filtering Extension. Sorry 🙁

For that show_columns parameter: That works in the opposite way: It will only re-show columns that have been hidden before (either via Shortcode or on the “Edit” screen). It will however not hide the other columns automatically. So, you might want to try

[table id=1 row_hover=false hide_columns="all" show_columns="3,4" /]

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!

Best wishes,
Tobias

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Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

The best way to add this to all tables should be with some PHP code that uses the available plugin filter hooks.
For example, please try adding this to the “functions.php” file of your theme or a small new plugin file:

add_filter( 'tablepress_datatables_parameters', 'jacessario_turn_off_ordering', 10, 4 );
function jacessario_turn_off_ordering( $parameters, $table_id, $html_id, $js_options ) {
  $parameters['columnDefs'] = '"columnDefs": [{"orderable": false, "targets" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]}]';
  return $parameters;
}

Note that this requires that all of your tables have at least 11 columns! Otherwise, this will break the JavaScript functions for the tables.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

sure, you are very welcome!

Setting up the Column Filter Extension for all tables only requires a small change in the file tablepress-datatables-columnfilter/tablepress-datatables-columnfilter.php of the Extension. There, change line 42 to

$default_atts['datatables_columnfilter'] = 'true';

That will turn on the Extension for all tables automatically.

I don’t think that the script supports appearing at the top however, as that would interfere with the sorting.

Regards,
Tobias