Automatic Filter

Sometimes it can be useful to initialize the “Search” field above a table with a filter word, for example to highlight a certain row in a table. The advantage of this method over the Row Filtering module is that the visitor can change the filter word, to e.g. see all entries in the table.

Usage instructions

To use these features with your tables, activate the “Automatic Filter” feature module on the “Modules” screen of TablePress Pro or TablePress Max. Then, configure the desired options in the “Automatic Filtering” section of the “Settings” sidebar of the table’s “TablePress table” block when editing the post or page with the table, or use the configuration parameters from below.

Alternatively, use the Shortcode

[table id=123 datatables_auto_filter=test /]Code language: plaintext (plaintext)

to have the table filtered for test when the page is loaded. Change the 123 to your table’s ID.

Or, you could use

[table id=123 datatables_auto_filter_url_parameter=table_filter /]Code language: plaintext (plaintext)

to enable URLs like

https://example.com/page-with-table/?table_filter=wordCode language: plaintext (plaintext)

so that the filter term will be extracted from the URL parameter table_filter.

Configuration parameters

To configure this module’s features, you can also use these configuration parameters in the “TablePress Table” block, the Elementor widget, or in the Shortcode that you are using to embed the table: