Conflicting extensions and some extensions not working

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

Sorry, I have no clue about what the issue with WordPress SEO might be here. I’d need to see this on a test page, to find out more, if possible.

For the Extensions: Yeah, unfortunately, not all of them are compatible with each other, because the change the same piece of JavaScript code internally.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a solution to this at the moment, as that would require writing custom Extensions that integrate several JS addons for DataTables into one Extension.

The Column Filter Widgets Extension is probably not working as expected because the Filtering/Searching is not enabled for this table (on the “Edit” screen). That’s however required. (You could then however hide the actual search field with some CSS, if that’s undesired.)

Regards,
Tobias

Hi Tobias,

Thank you for your quick reply. Of course you can see this on a test page, do you want a login for that?

Too bad those extensions conflict indeed. I was hoping I did something wrong :).

I’ve tried the column filter widget. And that one works indeed. The normal column filter doesn’t work at all, but as I have to choose I’ll choose the colvis for now.

Let me know what you need for testing that SEO plugin.

Best regards,

Thies

Hi,

yeah, the conflict with those JS Extensions is unfortunate, but I don’t have a solution for that at the moment ??

For looking into that SEO plugin issue, I’d like to take a direct look at this on your site. Could you therefore please create a temporary admin account for me and send me the details via email (the address is in the main plugin file “tablepress.php”)? That way, I can investigate this directly. Thanks!

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

thanks for the account details! I was able to look into this and can confirm the problem. Basically, the reason for this is that the [table] Shortcode is evaluated twice when WordPress SEO is activated. During this second evaluation, TablePress enqueues the FixedColumns JS code. However, WordPress SEO throws away the second set of evaluated Shortcodes, so that the JS breaks because the required HTML elements are not in the page.
After looking around, I found that this is controlled by the “Add Open Graph meta data” feature that WordPress SEO offers. When that is turned off (as I have done right now), everything works fine.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi Tobias,

Thanks for you help. It works great now.

One other question. Is it possible to change the button text from the colvis extension in show / hide supplier?

I found de button text in the .js file, but if I change it nothing happens.

Cheers,

Thies

Hi,

yes, it should be possible to change that in the .js file. Note that there are two JS files (one is minified) where this has to be changed. Also, as your site is using mod_pagespeed for caching, you might have to clear that cache.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi again,

actually, it might be easier to change in a “Custom Command” on the “Edit” screen of the table:

"colVis": { "buttonText": "Change columns" }

Regards,
Tobias

Great! Thank you for that.

solved ??

Hi,

no problem, you are very welcome! ?? Good to hear that this helped!

Best wishes,
Tobias

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