[Plugin: WP-Table Reloaded] Web scraper-generated numbers screwing up my sort?

Hi,

thanks for your question.

Unfortunately, your link does not work for me, as it does not seem to be a published page and thus is only available to users that are logged in.
Can you create a test page that is publicly available?

Regards,
Tobias

Tobias, certainly. The link is now published publicly.
Sorry about that.

Phil

Hi Phil,

thanks for that, now I was able to take a look at your site.

The problem is coming from the web scraper plugin. It is not just printing out that number, but also a surrounding HTML comment, like this:

<!--
 Start of web scrap dump (created by wp-web-scraper)
 Source URL: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/avwcgroup/
 CSS Selector: li:eq(12)
-->
229
<!--End of web scrap dump-->

This unfortunately messes up the DataTables JavaScript library (which does the sorting). DataTables expects a plain number, but due to the HTML comment, the cell content is actually a string. And strings are sorted differently, compared to numbers.

So, if somehow possible (worst case: changes in the source code), you should modify the web scraper plugin to only print out the number, without any surrounding string characters.

Regards,
Tobias

Thanks Tobias! Extremely helpful as always.

Tobias, I messed with the source code and it’s fixed.

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Hi Phil,

great to hear that this worked! Thanks for the confirmation!

Best wishes,
Tobias