Title: Export CSV – not filtering
Last modified: January 15, 2020

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# Export CSV – not filtering

 *  [lhycweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lhycweb/)
 * (@lhycweb)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-csv-not-filtering/)
 * Hi,
    I have set up Participants Database to manage a Members Database for my 
   sailing club. I have set up fields and successfully imported all the data that
   we were previously holding on spread sheets. Everything appears to working great
   and just what we were looking for. I can filter and sort the data in List Participants,
   but when I try and Export CSV the whole database exports, unsorted. From what
   I have read the output should also be sorted or filtered. Have I missed something?
 * Thanks
    David

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 *  Plugin Author [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-csv-not-filtering/#post-12329497)
 * This suggests that php sessions are not working on your site. I would suggest
   you contact your web host and ask them about cookie-based php sessions, see if
   there is anything special you need to do to get them working.
 * Another possibility is there is some kind of server caching that is preventing
   the export from getting the current filter settings.
 * This will affect other operations in the plugin so it’s important you get this
   working.
 *  Thread Starter [lhycweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lhycweb/)
 * (@lhycweb)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-csv-not-filtering/#post-12329595)
 * Thanks for your prompt reply. I will contact my host tomorrow, I’m in the UK 
   so out of hours now and support is only really for emergencies. I have Autoptimize
   running, but have just deactivated that to see if that is causing a cache problem,
   but it made no difference.
    Thanks again, I will update this with anything I 
   find. David
 *  Thread Starter [lhycweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lhycweb/)
 * (@lhycweb)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-csv-not-filtering/#post-12447801)
 * As an update to this, after a lot of head scratching and searching, I have discovered
   that the issue of filtering not working on the Exported CSV is a conflict with
   another plugin, User Submitted Post Pro (USP Pro). With USP Pro deactivated the
   Export CSV matches the filtered results and works fine. As soon as I activate
   USP Pro the problem returns except the last working filtered results are downloaded,
   rather than the entire database as I originally reported. To test this further
   I used a clean install of WP in a subdirectory of my site. The free version of
   USP does not have this effect on PDB. Have you got any ideas? I will raise a 
   similar request to the USP Pro plugin author. Thanks David
 *  Plugin Author [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-csv-not-filtering/#post-12448701)
 * The most likely explanation for this issue is that the other plugin is not allowing
   Participants Database to use the php sessions normally. This will likely show
   up in the error log as a session handler that could not be properly initialized.

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 * [export](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/export/)

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 * Last reply from: [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-csv-not-filtering/#post-12448701)
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