Title: Incorrect Column Count Error
Last modified: December 17, 2024

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# Incorrect Column Count Error

 *  Resolved [RachelR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rrodda75/)
 * (@rrodda75)
 * [1 year, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-column-count-error/)
 * Hi there,
 * I am getting the following error display on my posts that include a tablepress
   table –
 * “DataTables warning: table id=tablepress-6 – Incorrect column count. For more
   information about this error, please see [https://datatables.net/tn/18&#8221](https://datatables.net/tn/18&#8221);
 * I don’t understand how to resolve the error – I have read other posts with the
   same issue but I’m not sure how to resolve for my site. It seems to happen for
   tables where I am linking to an image from my media library for some images.
 * Thanks,
 * Rachel
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fincorrect-column-count-error%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [1 year, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-column-count-error/#post-18202911)
 * Hi!
 * Thanks for your post and sorry for the trouble!
 * When checking your page, I can’t seem to reproduce this? The table looks fine
   to me and I don’t get an error message.
 * Did you maybe already find the cause for this? My guess would be broken HTML 
   code, e.g. due to missing quotation marks `"`.
 * Best wishes,
   Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [RachelR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rrodda75/)
 * (@rrodda75)
 * [1 year, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-column-count-error/#post-18211488)
 * I changed the image files related to this rows with the issue and it resolved
   the error. It wasn’t happy including images that I had included from my media
   library – I have now included an external url link for the image and it is fine.
   I don’t know why that would be the case – but the error is gone for now.
 * Thanks, Rachel
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [1 year, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-column-count-error/#post-18212005)
 * Hi Rachel,
 * Thanks for trying this! Yes, this confirms that something was wrong with the 
   HTML code for the images then, coming from the media library.
 * Good to hear that the error is gone now! 🙂
 * Best wishes,
   Tobias

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