Title: Hidden
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Hidden

 *  Resolved [Rub3X](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rub3x/)
 * (@rub3x)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden/)
 * Tobias,
 * I made a script which creates rows in the table and edits existing rows. It works
   fine, but when I open that table up in the WordPress administration panel and
   make a manual change to anything (or make no change at all) and click Save, the
   table breaks. As soon as I hit save it randomly hides 90% of the rows on the 
   table when the table is outputted. The only way I can fix this is to manually
   check each row and click the show button. I see no area in the SQL database where
   a row can be marked as hidden or shown, and I see no reason why clicking save
   within the WordPress admin would automatically hide 90% of rows.
 * Do you have any insight as to why this is happening?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden/#post-6826585)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * The reason for this likely is that either your script is not setting the visibility
   information correct (which is stored in the `wp_postmeta` DB table), or that 
   something is broken with that DB table.
 * I therefore suggest that you don’t directly edit the table data by manipulating
   the JSON data in the database, but that you instead use the TablePress functions
   for this, like `TablePress::$model_table->load()` and `->save()`.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Rub3X](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rub3x/)
 * (@rub3x)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden/#post-6826607)
 * Ah I see why it does it. I created the table manually with the default 5 rows
   5 columns or whatever it is. Then when my script populates the table it doesn’t
   add the additional 1s for each new row in post_meta. So the table itself has 
   50 rows while there’s only five 1s set in post_meta. So when you click save it
   must see there’s more rows in the table than there are in post_meta and flips
   them all to 0 by default.
 * By chance is there just a way to disable the show/hide row feature within the
   plugin?
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden/#post-6826793)
 * Hi,
 * yes, that’s exactly the reason. When modifying the table data, you will have 
   to change the visibility as well. Something quick like [https://github.com/TobiasBg/TablePress/blob/6b04e07a9c8c6e0d4262b7415f3d8c7ed28c080e/controllers/controller-admin.php#L1351](https://github.com/TobiasBg/TablePress/blob/6b04e07a9c8c6e0d4262b7415f3d8c7ed28c080e/controllers/controller-admin.php#L1351)
   might do it.
 * Turning off the functionality is not directly possible. You could however override
   the settings on the “Edit” screen. That is, a user would still be able to mark
   rows/columns as hidden, and they would appear with the red background color there,
   but TablePress would ignore that and still show all rows/columns. For that, you
   could hook into a filter and set all rows/columns to visible, e.g. with
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'tablepress_table_render_options', 'Rub3X_tablepress_show_all_cells', 10, 2 );
       function Rub3X_tablepress_show_all_cells( $render_options, $table ) {
          $render_options['show_rows'] = 'all';
          $render_options['show_columns'] = 'all';
          return $render_options;
       }
       ```
   
 * This will basically set the `show_rows` and `show_columns` Shortcode parameters
   for all tables, as mentioned on [https://tablepress.org/faq/documentation-shortcode-table/](https://tablepress.org/faq/documentation-shortcode-table/)
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Rub3X](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rub3x/)
 * (@rub3x)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden/#post-6826903)
 * Thank you, and thanks for your dedication to the community 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden/#post-6826915)
 * Hi,
 * no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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