• Resolved VFHwebdev

    (@vfhwebdev)


    Hi,

    I’m using Tablepress to display a table with about 3,000 records. It works great on the front end. But managing that table is incredibly slow and taxing in the admin area.

    Doing things like showing or hiding columns, changing table options, etc. takes forever.

    So this is a feature request I guess. Could you paginate the results in the admin the way they are on the front end? Or put table settings and column management on a different page than the data?

    Thanks!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/

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  • Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    Yeah, I know what you mean, and I have experienced it myself. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a good solution yet, but I hope to be able to make this better when I rewrite the “Edit” screen in the future.
    Adding pagination is not possible right now, due to how the internal saving process for tables works.

    The problem usually is that the web browser has problems handling the large number of input fields. Some users have achieved a faster performance when using Internet Explorer here (yes, that’s surprising), which presumably has a better management of those input fields.

    A workaround would be to edit the table externally, e.g. in Excel, and then re-importing it from a CSV file, choosing to replace the existing table.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter VFHwebdev

    (@vfhwebdev)

    Yep, that’s what I always do for managing the data itself. But when I need to manage table settings, column visibility, etc. There’s no way to avoid it. It’d be great if those settings could be managed separate from the data. I’ll try using IE and see if it’s any better.

    Thanks for a great plugin!

    Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    yeah, that’s the drawback of this method. :-/ The workaround that I use for this is to delete the existing (large) table, and create a new (small) one. Then, adjust the settings/options and change the table ID as desired and finally import the CSV file again.

    Regards,
    Tobias

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