Title: disable buttons
Last modified: August 8, 2017

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# disable buttons

 *  Resolved [mosegard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mosegard/)
 * (@mosegard)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-buttons/)
 * I am trying to remove all buttons from the datatables part of the plugin, but
   no luck (I just want the paging, nothing else). I know I am supposed to use the
   shortcode datatables_buttons, but I can figure out how.
 * I have tried variations of both lists of button names, false etc. – but nothing
   seems to do anything.
 * [gdoc key=”[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ID/edit#gid=0&#8243](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ID/edit#gid=0&#8243);
   use_cache=”no” datatables_searching=false datatables_order=false datatables_buttons
   =”” ]
 * Strange thing is, if I try datatables_buttons=”csv” (or anything else in strings)
   then the first button “column visibility” disappears
 * Great plugin by the way, love it!
    Regards. Jesper

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 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-buttons/#post-9392731)
 * You actually want `datatables_dom`, not `datatables_buttons`. See [the DataTables documentation](https://datatables.net/reference/option/dom).
 *  Thread Starter [mosegard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mosegard/)
 * (@mosegard)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-buttons/#post-9392767)
 * Thank you!
 * For future reference, this gives the effect I wanted;
 * [gdoc key=”[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ID/edit#gid=0&#8243](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ID/edit#gid=0&#8243);
   use_cache=”no” datatables_dom=”lrtip” datatables_order=false ]
 * i.e. no b for button 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-buttons/#post-9392808)
 * Cool. Just a note, unless your Sheet is pretty small _and will always remain 
   small_, turning off the cache is a bad idea. That shortcode attribute is intended
   for development; turning it off means that _every time_ you load the page, your
   server asks Google for the Sheet’s data. In other words, the visitor is stuck
   waiting for Google to answer the query from your website before your website 
   even answers the visitor’s query, and this feels as slow as it sounds.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-buttons/#post-9392808)
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