Advanced Pagination Settings

Customize the pagination settings of the table.

This feature module is part of the TablePress Premium plans.

The basic version of TablePress offers a helpful pagination feature. When this is enabled, the visitor can easier navigate in long tables with many rows. They will only see a few rows at a time and can then go to the next set of rows on the next table page, with arrow and number buttons.

Feature description

For many sites, a different type of pagination controls might be more suitable. The “Advanced Pagination Settings” features offers that. Below, you can find different possibilities. Note the highlighted pagination controls for each example table:

The “Advanced Pagination Settings” allow turning on “First” page and “Last” page buttons, so that the visitor can reach the start or end of a table quickly. See this example:

Name	Year	Country	Sport	Time	Rate	Fee
Eric	1986	Sweden	Soccer	05:25	40.4%	$7.14
Julia	1991	Germany	Basketball	04:45	20.3%	$2.90
Adam	2002	Indonesia	Golf	19:40	43.3%	$4.40

It is also possible to replace the number buttons with an input field, which even supports the up and down keys on the keyboard, like in this example table:

Name	Year	Country	Sport	Time	Rate	Fee
Eric	1986	Sweden	Soccer	05:25	40.4%	$7.14
Julia	1991	Germany	Basketball	04:45	20.3%	$2.90
Adam	2002	Indonesia	Golf	19:40	43.3%	$4.40

And for tables that take up more vertical space than the height of the screen, the “Scroll To Top” feature comes in handy: With this, when a site visitor uses the pagination controls, usually below the table, they will automatically be scrolled up to the top of the table. To try this, scroll down and use the pagination controls in this example table:

Name	Year	Country	Sport	Time	Rate	Fee
Eric	1986	Sweden	Soccer	05:25	40.4%	$7.14
Julia	1991	Germany	Basketball	04:45	20.3%	$2.90
Adam	2002	Indonesia	Golf	19:40	43.3%	$4.40
Kim	1986	Chile	Badminton	12:50	85.7%	$3.47
Jackson	1998	Australia	Baseball	06:09	66.7%	$6.85
Cade	1986	India	Badminton	19:43	42.4%	$3.22
Keaton	2003	Costa Rica	Basketball	10:31	40.0%	$5.88
Ray	1999	France	Gymnastics	18:08	59.5%	$1.10
Omar	1984	Brazil	Tennis	02:50	54.2%	$2.30
Maite	1986	Norway	Wrestling	15:09	29.5%	$3.91
Jeremy	1987	United States	Fencing	16:36	81.4%	$8.26
Libby	1989	Austria	Swimming	21:19	33.8%	$4.71
Kermit	1994	Ukraine	Volleyball	12:39	63.6%	$8.54
Madison	1988	United States	Boxing	13:37	26.7%	$7.09
Francis	1993	Chile	Volleyball	21:02	87.5%	$6.29

Usage instructions

To use these features with your tables, activate the “Advanced Pagination Settings” feature module on the “Modules” screen of TablePress Pro or TablePress Max. Then, configure the desired options in the “Advanced Pagination Settings” section on the table’s “Edit” screen.

Configuration parameters

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

Module	Slug	Configuration parameter	Type	Default value
Advanced Pagination Settings	datatables-pagination	`datatables_pagination_firstlast`	boolean (`true` or `false`)	`false`
Advanced Pagination Settings	datatables-pagination	`datatables_pagination_previousnext`	boolean (`true` or `false`)	`true`
Advanced Pagination Settings	datatables-pagination	`datatables_pagination_numbers`	boolean (`true` or `false`)	`true`
Advanced Pagination Settings	datatables-pagination	`datatables_pagination_input`	boolean (`true` or `false`)	`false`
Advanced Pagination Settings	datatables-pagination	`datatables_pagination_input_pageof`	boolean (`true` or `false`)	`true`
Advanced Pagination Settings	datatables-pagination	`datatables_pagination_buttons`	integer	`7`
Advanced Pagination Settings	datatables-pagination	`datatables_pagination_boundarynumbers`	boolean (`true` or `false`)	`true`
Advanced Pagination Settings	datatables-pagination	`datatables_pagination_scrolltotop`	boolean (`true` or `false`)	`false`
Advanced Pagination Settings	datatables-pagination	`datatables_pagination_scrolltotop_offset`	integer	`10`

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