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  • Resolved stronghammer

    (@stronghammer)


    6 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Tobias,

    Your plugin has worked fantastically on my website. However, I’ve been struggling with two problems.

    The first is that WordPress slows down to a crawl when working on tables with over 2000 rows. Is there a way to import a table, but to not have it display live on the backend? It seems to work fine for my visitors, just not when I import the Excel document.

    The second question goes along with the first. How can I create a search form to pull only rows in the table that have the search query in them? I want to make a large table of genealogical information and allow my visitors to search it, much like this website: https://kolberg-koerlin.de/familienforschung/#suchmaske I have not been able to find a single plugin that does what their site does. I know they use both TablePress and TableMaster, but my WordPress version is not compatible with TableMaster and triggers a fatal error.

    Any advice you could provide would be appreciated. Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    Regarding the import: You could maybe try using the CSV format, as that can be processed a bit faster than Excel. Still, the data needs to be sent to the browser and evaluated there, which also takes time. You might therefore want to try other browsers as well.

    Regarding the filtering: I’m not aware of a directly usable solution for that, unfortunately. Your best chance probably is to develop a custom solution based on the API functions of the DataTables JavaScript library.

    Regards,
    Tobias

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