Reverse sort?

I did use the code from all of those posts you sent the links to… it was already placed.

The sort column is still appearing despite me telling it to hide column 0 (since in a comment you said it starts at 0) for tables 5, 6, 7. All of that was directly copy and pasted, just changing table numbers.

The nowrap code which is needed for the second column… (column 1) for 5, 6, 7 is also no longer functioning.

Unfortunately, as someone on workman’s comp (215.19/week) who hasn’t been able to find paying work for 2.5 years (which is why I am doing the site to help get all my stuff together) I can’t afford to pay $80 a year to find out why the code which should work to hide columns isn’t working and lines are not breaking.

I think at this point the truly easier thing to do would be to create more columns then sort by the second.

Going into the plugin there is a section called “Plugin Options.” There is a section called “Custom CSS.” That is where it is. The checkmark is checked. I hit save on it.

I do not know why, but sometimes it takes siteground anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours (sometimes a day even) to get some changes to reflect. The mysteries of siteground I guess. This is why it takes so long to fix any part of this site.

(The Astra free support people found this out too)

The part that is actually supposed to be doing the sorting ( “order”: [ [ 0, “desc” ] ] ) is in the Custom Commands part. That has never been anywhere else. It’s working fine on several tables. I just have to remember to change the column number if needed.

The part about how to hide things ( .tablepress-id-5 .column-0 {
display: none;
} as well as the no page break is in the plugin options. Putting that code in the custom commands part does not show any changes in the preview. And in other posts you implied it went in plugin options which since it looks like a different language, it would make sense.

Unfortunately, the only manual flush cache option for the host is when I install or deactivate a plugin. Otherwise I just wait. Like right now I made some changes to the teaching page to see if that looks any better and site ground is taking it’s time.

I added a column of content to split the dates into start/end and told it to sort by end date which is now the second column/column 1. The content hasn’t been refreshed to see that another column has been added but the commands from the Custom Command for sorting is now sorting by semester on the live site. The preview is correct but is it still going to look ok on the live site? Who knows… Sigh.

Sir….

I have been using your code and have been since we started this conversation. I, contrary to what my problems with this would suggest, actually was a web programmer for a number of years, building I don’t even know how many websites in the days of handcoding. I just did not want to handcode what is likely to eventually be 10-12 tables (I am at 7 right now) with up to 60+ rows. I don’t have time for that type of frustration anymore at my age especially with wordpress and plugins making it much easier to do.

You claim you can’t see the code that has been updating. That’s due to my host taking their sweet time updating, not that I am not doing it. The Astra people I spoke to over a few days ran into the same issue.

I have not been posting all of the code here since it is several lines. But I have now copy and pasted this all in full into the clinical page’s custom command code and NOTHING has changed in the preview. Nothing. No column has sorted from what it was before. Nothing has been hidden. Exactly nothing has changed, for better or for worse. At least if there was a change of some type (of any type actually), it would be easy to debug if that is not what was desired.

As far as in the CSS portion, the first column IS listed as column 1 for all of the ones. It has been listed for days like that. Only in the custom portion on the edit page did I start at zero.

Once the teaching page (which I am trying to fix this the old fashioned way by just adding more columns, then sort on the second) updates and still looks good on desktop, I might just flip everything that way which will also deal with the wrapping issue. It will just stay looking more circa mid-1990s than I would have hoped.