Title: Tablepress DataTables ColumnFilterWidgets
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Tablepress DataTables ColumnFilterWidgets

 *  Resolved [aishfak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aishfak/)
 * (@aishfak)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-datatables-columnfilterwidgets/)
 * Hi,
    You plugin is really great and it’s addon column filter widgets also good
   but is there a way the ColumnFilterWidgets only show the dropdown value which
   we somehow add inside || or “” etc.
 * did you understand what i mean ? Like currently it get the column from column
   automatically and show it as dropdown but what i want for example if we have 
   two value in column eg we have follow in column
 * Woodsman
    -Bearded Bastard Now i want dropdown only show Woodsman. Is that something
   possible to do ? Thanks.
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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-datatables-columnfilterwidgets/#post-7170889)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * Sorry, showing only partial content of a cell is not possible, from what I know.
   Your best option here should be to add another but hidden column with just the
   desired contents. Then, you could show the dropdown for that (hidden) column,
   but hide the dropdown for the actual column, by adding the parameter `datatables_columnfilterwidgets_exclude_columns
   ="2"` (with the correct column) to the Shortcode.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [aishfak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aishfak/)
 * (@aishfak)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-datatables-columnfilterwidgets/#post-7170915)
 * Hello Tobias,
 * Thanks for quick reply. It’s sad to hear that we can show partial content of 
   the column into drop-down. As for as your solution i like it but does drop-down
   will show if we set column hidden ?? Ok i will try that but i think it will not
   work like that.
 * Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [aishfak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aishfak/)
 * (@aishfak)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-datatables-columnfilterwidgets/#post-7170916)
 * Tobias i just try to add another column and set it hide and it’s not showing 
   dropdown 🙁 The hidden feature hide both column and dropdown. Is there a way 
   we can only hide the column not the dropdown ? I must appreciate your help thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [aishfak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aishfak/)
 * (@aishfak)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-datatables-columnfilterwidgets/#post-7170924)
 * hahaha I find a way to do that. I make another column and just hide it using 
   css Thanks Tobias for idea.
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-datatables-columnfilterwidgets/#post-7170971)
 * Hi,
 * yes, the column needs to be hidden via CSS. Sorry for not mentioning that. Great
   to hear that you found this though, and that it’s working now 🙂
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-datatables-columnfilterwidgets/#post-7170971)
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