server-side / ajax search

  • Hi Tobias,

    I have a potential requirement to use TablePress for quite a large table (1000+ rows, 30+ columns). We’ve done some testing and it works, just, but the initial loading of the page is quite slow as you can imagine.

    I know TablePress makes use of datatables to some extent, and I know datatables has the ability to perform server-side processing https://datatables.net/manual/server-side.

    So do you think, with a bit of development, tablepress could perform it’s search server-side and only output the rows needed on the page to fulfill the search query, as opposed to rendering the whole table every time?

    If you think there may be a way to achieve this, and could point us in the right direction, I’ll pass this on to my developers and contribute back anything we develop.

    Many thanks in advance,

    Stuart

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  • Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    I see what you mean, but unfortunately, it’s not directly possible to use this server-side feature with TablePress. You will need indeed need custom code. You could develop an AJAX handler, e.g. based on the WordPress admin-ajax.php feature set, which loads the table data (pretty much in the same way as the TablePress rendering functions do it), and then sends it to the browser.

    Regards,
    Tobias

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