Title: Filter functionality Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Filter functionality * Resolved [Karol Nowak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karol-nowak/) * (@karol-nowak) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/) * Hi Tobias * Fantastic plugin! I’m just wondering if you’d be able to develop such a functionality as “filter” in Excell 2010, where different columns can be filtered respectively? * Vielen Dank 🙂 Karol * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 37 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/page/2/?output_format=md) * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144484) * Hi Karol, * thanks for your post. * I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “filter” in this context. Do you have an example or screenshot, to make sure that we are on the same page? * Do you maybe mean something like on this website: [http://datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/api/multi_filter_select.html](http://datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/api/multi_filter_select.html) * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [Karol Nowak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karol-nowak/) * (@karol-nowak) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144487) * Hi Yes, that’s exactly what I am looking for. Menus preferably at the top. Now my the question would be: – how to implement it? Cheers Karol * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144493) * Hi Karol, * so, you’d like [http://datatables.net/extras/thirdparty/ColumnFilterWidgets/DataTables/extras/ColumnFilterWidgets/](http://datatables.net/extras/thirdparty/ColumnFilterWidgets/DataTables/extras/ColumnFilterWidgets/) better? * Unfortunately, implementing this is not that trivial. I’m planning on developing“ Plugin Extensions” for features like this, but that might still take some time. 🙁 Until then, it might be the best approach to not use the automatic integration of the DataTables JS library by TablePress, but to load it manually. In that approach, TablePress would deliver just the plain HTML table, without the JavaScript functionality. That would need to be added manually by doing some custom programming. Helpful resources would be [http://datatables.net/blog/Getting_started_with_DataTables%3A_First_steps](http://datatables.net/blog/Getting_started_with_DataTables%3A_First_steps) and maybe the WordPress HiFi plugin from [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hifi/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hifi/) that allows to add JavaScript to specific pages/posts. * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [Karol Nowak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karol-nowak/) * (@karol-nowak) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144498) * Thank You * Appreciate your help! Looking forward for plugin update, and in the meantime will try to play with the code 😉 * Karol * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144517) * Hi Karol, * that sounds like a good solution 🙂 * Best wishes, Tobias * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144663) * Hi, * I have this code ready now for TablePress 🙂 It is available as a TablePress Extension. I haven’t yet found the time to add it to the TablePress website, so it’s just available in the GitHub repository at [https://github.com/TobiasBg/TablePress-Extensions/tree/master/tablepress-datatables-multi-filter-select](https://github.com/TobiasBg/TablePress-Extensions/tree/master/tablepress-datatables-multi-filter-select) Basically, you will need these three file, but them into a subfolder “tablepress- datatables-multi-filter-select” and install that as a regular WordPress plugin. Then, just add a new parameter to your Shortcode, i.e. change something like * ``` [table id=1 /] ``` * to * ``` [table id=1 datatables_multi_filter_select=true /] ``` * to use this feature. * Regards, Tobias * [rvbhit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvbhit/) * (@rvbhit) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144670) * Hi Tobias, * Do you I need to uninstall Tablepress, put the new folder into the Tablepress folder on my server then reinstall the plugin? I tried zipping the folder you mentioned above and tried installing that as a plugin and it did not work. Am I missing a step? * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144671) * Hi, * no, nothing to uninstall here! The new plugin is a separate folder, that just needs to go into “wp-content/plugins” (so that you have both “tablepress” and“ tablepress-datatables-multi-filter-select” as folders in “wp-content/plugins”. After that, just activate the new “TablePress Extension” plugin in WordPress, and add that Shortcode parameter. * Regards, Tobias * [rvbhit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvbhit/) * (@rvbhit) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144672) * I tried that and the plugin doesn’t show up in WordPress to be activated. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144673) * Hi, * are you sure that you now have the folder “wp-content/plugins/tablepress-datatables- multi-filter-select” which has the three files “tablepress-datatables-multi-filter- select.php”, “multi-filter-select.min.js”, and “multi-filter-select.js” directly in it, without any other subfolders? After that, you will see the new plugin“ TablePress Extension: Individual Column Filtering (with dropdowns)” in your WordPress Plugins list. * Regards, Tobias * [rvbhit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvbhit/) * (@rvbhit) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144674) * Yes sir, I even restarted my server to make sure everything loaded. Just for you to see as well: [http://imgur.com/6oF3f](http://imgur.com/6oF3f) * [rvbhit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvbhit/) * (@rvbhit) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144675) * Correction, here’s the link: [http://imgur.com/a/zFXVe](http://imgur.com/a/zFXVe) * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144676) * Hi, * have you select the “All” tab at the top of the page? Just from your list of folders, the list of plugins should be much longer. Thus, this indicates, that you are currently only viewing the active plugins. * Regards, Tobias * [rvbhit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvbhit/) * (@rvbhit) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144677) * Nope, the all tab is selected, and I have 17 plugins activated. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/#post-3144678) * Hi, * ok, at this point, it might be a good idea if I take a direct look at your site. Could you therefore please contact me by email (the address is in the main plugin file “tablepress.php”). * Regards, Tobias Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 37 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Filter functionality’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/tablepress/assets/icon.svg?rev=3192944) * [TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/reviews/) * 37 replies * 7 participants * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-functionality/page/3/#post-3144795) * Status: resolved