Title: [Plugin: Tablepress] Questions
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# [Plugin: Tablepress] Questions

 *  [goinwhere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goinwhere/)
 * (@goinwhere)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-questions/)
 * Hello, I have a couple of questions pertaining to the Tablepress plugin. I hope
   these are possible. If not, does anyone know of a table plugin where this is 
   possible? I know I could probably have Excel spreadsheets for each of the things
   I’m asking, but I would hate to have to update the same thing on multiple spreadsheets
   and then upload them constantly. Thanks.
 * Example of my table:
    Columns: First, Last, State, Age
 * 1. I want to be able to click a link on one of the cells such as state or age
   which takes me to every entry that has that has that state/age and excludes everything
   else. (Ex. Click on GA to bring up every entry that is from Georgia).
 * 2. I would like to have separate pages for each state while only having to update
   the master table. (Ex. Have a drop down menu somewhere where I can choose Georgia
   and it takes me to a page with all entries from the state of Georgia).
 * 3. I would like to have a page for each region. (Ex. Have a southeast table that
   linked each entry that included GA, FL, AL etc.) Again, I want to use the master
   table as opposed to multiple tables.

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 *  [OrgSpring](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orgspring/)
 * (@orgspring)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-questions/#post-5136014)
 * This is similar to [this thread here](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-retrieve-usermeta-data-or-userdata-into-table?replies=2).
 * Tablepress author suggests not using tablepress in favor of a standard table 
   with some jquery.
 * Check the last post in that thread about datatables.net.
 *  [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-questions/#post-5136049)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * Just as OrgSpring mentions, this is not that easy, and it will require some extra
   work by you.
    Using a master table with all your information should not be a 
   problem, and the best choice to narrow it down to the smaller tables (which are
   to be displayed on the single pages) should be to use the Filtering Extension
   from [http://tablepress.org/extensions/row-filter/](http://tablepress.org/extensions/row-filter/)
   With that, you will get a new Shortcode parameter so that you can use different
   Shortcodes on the individual pages for each state/region (which you will have
   to create manually however).
 * You could then manually create a drop down with some HTML code and use JavaScript
   to perform the redirect to the desired page after something is chosen from the
   drop down list.
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-questions/#post-5136049)
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