Show panes for filtering the columns.
This feature module is part of the TablePress Premium plans.
Search Panes offer visually attractive filtering options for site visitors.
Feature description
Here’s an example:
Last Name | First Name | Birthday | Company | Phone | ZIP code | Country | Balance | Points | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Banks | Travis | 05/04/1969 | Apple | 200-4324 | 64655 | Italy | $61.17 | 8 | 6.6 |
Cain | Lawrence | 05/16/1994 | IBM | 701-3108 | 98004 | United States | $54.81 | 5 | 2.5 |
Middleton | Dennis | 01/10/1992 | 580-9501 | 80913 | Spain | $24.83 | 4 | 5.2 | |
Valenzuela | Lunea | 01/09/1966 | Cisco | 970-8655 | 51606 | Germany | $74.07 | 7 | 3.7 |
Burgess | Quynn | 09/24/1988 | Mozilla | 430-8943 | 78965 | France | $16.13 | 8 | 2.9 |
Lott | Lillith | 12/10/1978 | Dell | 587-2289 | 88178 | Australia | $30.12 | 1 | 7.9 |
Freeman | Cheyenne | 01/28/1981 | LG | 396-5473 | 14711 | Germany | $49.82 | 1 | 6.0 |
Houston | Jorden | 05/03/1978 | Adobe | 970-1182 | 96036 | Canada | $47.31 | 2 | 1.5 |
Harris | Merritt | 12/29/1989 | Apple | 160-5977 | 25178 | United States | $77.33 | 6 | 0.1 |
Gregory | Brynn | 01/13/1994 | Adobe | 663-6039 | 91558 | Spain | $90.24 | 9 | 8.2 |
Curry | Mason | 03/15/1969 | Sony | 115-4778 | 87513 | Australia | $21.68 | 5 | 6.6 |
Holland | Alyssa | 06/25/1976 | Xerox | 704-4977 | 97921 | Canada | $50.31 | 7 | 9.5 |
Logan | Shay | 09/13/1968 | IBM | 687-6482 | 03023 | United States | $46.39 | 8 | 7.6 |
Moran | August | 07/04/1986 | Cisco | 651-1214 | 60737 | India | $22.64 | 1 | 7.5 |
Vasquez | Kelsey | 03/31/1968 | Samsung | 470-7358 | 79655 | Germany | $84.05 | 3 | 4.5 |
Stein | Lawrence | 10/15/1960 | Toshiba | 929-5407 | 36044 | Italy | $77.11 | 2 | 8.6 |
Battle | Wylie | 01/03/1988 | 368-2276 | 37585 | Australia | $46.37 | 10 | 2.8 | |
Booker | Logan | 12/16/1975 | Apple | 830-5701 | 22074 | United States | $40.71 | 1 | 9.0 |
Gilbert | Chaney | 06/06/1970 | Sony | 132-5560 | 89630 | Canada | $78.45 | 9 | 1.2 |
Buckley | Stone | 09/11/1980 | Cisco | 422-7998 | 74057 | United States | $30.01 | 2 | 7.9 |
Usage instructions
To use these features with your tables, activate the “Search Panes” feature module on the “Modules” screen of TablePress Pro or TablePress Max. Then, configure the desired options in the “Search Panes” 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 | Name | Description | Type | Default value | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Search Panes | datatables-searchpanes | datatables_searchpanes | boolean (true or false ) | false | |||
Search Panes | datatables-searchpanes | datatables_searchpanes_columns | string | "" (empty string) |
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