Title: Column Filtering
Last modified: January 17, 2019

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# Column Filtering

 *  Resolved [amanfre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amanfre/)
 * (@amanfre)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-filtering-3/)
 * Hi Tobais,
 * I have two issues am trying to resolve, being;
 * 1. When using the column filter widget, the filter picks up each word in that
   column and provides the dropdown box. For some cells I have them empty and the
   dropdown selection with the filter is showing that empty space as a selection.
   How can I remove or exclude this ?
 * 2. I am using the row filtering extension and it works perfect in filtering the
   exact word, but because I have disabled datatables (as I wanted to exclude search
   and sorting on this table), Ive lost pagination in the process, but thought I
   had the right code. How can I enable the pagination in the below shortcode.
 * [table id=1 dataTables_paginate=true datatables_sort=false responsive=”scroll”
   filter=”Yes” filter_columns=8,10 /]
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-filtering-3/#post-11099287)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * 1. Unfortunately, I’m not aware of a way to achieve that, sorry 🙁 As I’m not
   the original developer of the JavaScript code behind the ColumnFilterWidgets 
   feature, I don’t know where exactly the code has to be modified here. Sorry.
 * 2. It should be sufficient to lower-case the Shortcode parameter for pagination:
 *     ```
       [table id=1 datatables_paginate=true datatables_sort=false responsive="scroll" filter="Yes" filter_columns=8,10 /]
       ```
   
 * (The “Use DataTables” checkbox on the table’s “Edit” screen should however be
   checked.)
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-filtering-3/#post-11099287)
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