Title: links active?
Last modified: January 27, 2024

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# links active?

 *  Resolved [scotisle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scotisle/)
 * (@scotisle)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-active/)
 * Hi, I’m a new user and I’m just getting started. I have over 46,000 records of
   POWs held by the Japanese. I’m wondering two things before buying – is there 
   a way to make the page load faster, and how can I have the “links” column turn
   into active links please? Thanks!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Flinks-active%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [wpDataTables](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdatatables/)
 * (@wpdatatables)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-active/#post-17383874)
 * Hello,
   1. When it comes to such a large DataSet, if you have more than around
   6 thousand rows, the only way to have better performance is to switch to SQL 
   based tables and our server-side processing;but that is not available in the 
   Lite version.
 * If you wish to learn more details about this, please open a ticket on our [main Support platform here](https://tmsplugins.ticksy.com/),
   and one of our Agents will respond as quickly as possible.
 * Premium products are not supported in these forums, as per [this comment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-not-logged-into-wordpress-backend/#post-15050671)
   by WordPress.org moderators.
 * Thank you for understanding. 
 * 2. When it comes to rendering links in our Plugin, we are not able to open your
   Page, but we can advise.
 * it depends if you have one link per cell, or if you have multiple links in the
   same cell.
 * If you have one link per cell,  perhaps the easiest way is to use our [URL Columns](https://wpdatatables.com/documentation/column-features/url-link-columns/).
 * They have specific rendering rules :
 * Rendering rules: If the content of the cells contains a combination of “two sticks”–
   || – everything to the left of this combination is used as an URL address for
   the link, and everything to the right as displayed text. For example:
 *     ```wp-block-code
       https://wpdatatables.com||Check out wpDataTables
       ```
   
 * will be rendered as:
   [Check out wpDataTables](https://wpdatatables.com/)
 * If the “||” combination is not found in the content, the entire content will 
   be used both for the link and as the display value. For example:
   [https://wpdatatables.com](https://wpdatatables.com/)
   will be rendered as:[https://wpdatatables.com](https://wpdatatables.com/)
 * –
 * 2.
 * Alternatively, you can use [String Columns](https://wpdatatables.com/documentation/column-features/string-columns/).
 * They can render custom HTML,  in that case, you would have to wrap the links 
   in the source data as HTML anchor tags, for example :
 *     ```wp-block-code
       <a href="https://www.w3schools.com">Visit W3Schools.com!</a>
       ```
   
 * will be rendered as hyperlink of displayed text : ” Visit W3Schools.com! “
 *  if you use String Columns, you will also be able to have multiple links in the
   same cell,  and combinations or images with links, etc ( if needed).
 * –
 * Let me know if that makes sense, and if you have any questions. Thanks

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-active/#post-17383874)
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