Title: DataTables Warning
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# DataTables Warning

 *  Resolved [zech46](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zech46/)
 * (@zech46)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datatables-warning-1/)
 * I am receiving this error on any of the tables that are being displayed.
 * Datatables warning (table id = ‘tablepress-18″): Cannot reintialise Data Table.
   
   To retrieve the Data Tables object for this table, pass nop arguments or see 
   the docs for bRetrieve and bDestroy.
 * User can click OK and view the tables.
    But what is causing this, never had this
   issue before.
 * Thank you.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datatables-warning-1/#post-3806047)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * I don’t really know what could be causing this, but if you post a link to the
   page with the table where this happens, I’ll gladly take a direct look!
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [zech46](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zech46/)
 * (@zech46)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datatables-warning-1/#post-3806067)
 * Tobias
 * Here is the link.
    [http://pctweaking.com/?page_id=207](http://pctweaking.com/?page_id=207)
 * When you click OK in the error box, it clears and you can continue to view the
   table. Happens on all my tables, on this site.
    I never had this problem before,
   only noticed this past week.
 * Thank you for your time.
 *  Thread Starter [zech46](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zech46/)
 * (@zech46)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datatables-warning-1/#post-3806068)
 * Tobias
 * I forgot to mention.
    My host server recently updated: MySQL from version 5.1
   to version 5.5 as well as the Apache and PHP 5.3 releases.
 * I don’t know if this is an issue.
 * Gerald
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datatables-warning-1/#post-3806086)
 * Hi Gerald,
 * thanks for the link!
 * From what I can see, the JavaScript that loads the DataTables functions is called
   twice on your site, and that leads to this error.
 * One possible reason might be that your theme loads the footer code twice. To 
   check that, please check if the file “footer.php” of your theme contains a line
   like
 *     ```
       wp_footer();
       ```
   
 * more than once.
 * Another quick test would be to temporarily switch to the WordPress default theme
   TwentyTwelve, to see if the error message comes up there. If not, we know that
   the issue is in your theme. If yes, there’s probably a conflict with another 
   plugin somewhere.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [zech46](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zech46/)
 * (@zech46)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datatables-warning-1/#post-3806120)
 * Thanks for the support Tobias,
 * Yes, I had Inadvertently inserted <?php wp_footer(); ?> twice when I was editing
   my footer.php file. So just deleted the extra <?php wp_footer(); ?>.
    No more
   js error box. I wish all my tech issues was as simple as that.
 * I really enjoy using TablePress.
 * Gerald
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datatables-warning-1/#post-3806122)
 * Hi Gerald,
 * very nice! Great to hear that this indeed fixed the issue! 🙂
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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