Title: Search function questions Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Search function questions * Resolved [LindaEve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lindaeve/) * (@lindaeve) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/) * Hi Tobias! * I have a table press table that is shown on many pages in many ways using various filtering options (examples: [http://ccl.rutgers.edu/index.php/ictcore/cheminformatics/](http://ccl.rutgers.edu/index.php/ictcore/cheminformatics/) and [http://ccl.rutgers.edu/index.php/ictcore/comptox/](http://ccl.rutgers.edu/index.php/ictcore/comptox/)). I would like to show the entire table in a new page and include the search function. But I don’t see a way to include search in just one page, without including it on all the other pages (where I don’t want it). Is there a shortcode to include or exclude search? * Another idea I had is to have the search on a page with the table completely blank, but using the search it brings up a filtered version. Is there any way to do that? * Thanks! Linda * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Thread Starter [LindaEve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lindaeve/) * (@lindaeve) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/#post-3675314) * Never mind the first question because I found the short code and got that working. * Still trying to see if the second question is doable. * Thanks! Linda * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/#post-3675382) * Hi Linda, * thanks for your questions! Good to hear that you were already able to solve the first one! * For that second question: I do have a quite new solution for this, but it’s not that nice (in terms of flexibility and configuration) yet, so I can not guarantee that it will be useful. Please download and install the Extension from [http://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-inverted-filter/](http://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-inverted-filter/) * To use it, you will have the edit the contained PHP file: Line 22 contains an array of the page names (called “slugs”, which is the last part in the page’s URL, e.g. `comptox` in [http://ccl.rutgers.edu/index.php/ictcore/comptox/](http://ccl.rutgers.edu/index.php/ictcore/comptox/)), so you’ll have to adjust that. Then, this “inverted filter” function will be turned on for all tables on the page that use the filtering (i.e. there’s no per-table activation possible, but only a per-page activation). * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [LindaEve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lindaeve/) * (@lindaeve) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/#post-3675385) * Tobias, thanks for this possible solution and I will def. try it. * Enjoy your weekend! * Linda * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/#post-3675386) * Hi Linda, * you are very welcome! Let me know how things go! * A nice weekend to you, too! Tobias * Thread Starter [LindaEve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lindaeve/) * (@lindaeve) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/#post-3675497) * Tobias, thanks – just tried this and it works very well. It’s not pretty, but it does what I need! If you want to see the page it’s here: [http://ccl.rutgers.edu/index.php/ictcore/search-tools/](http://ccl.rutgers.edu/index.php/ictcore/search-tools/) * Thanks again, Linda * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/#post-3675498) * Hi Linda, * yes, it would be nicer to hide the head row as well. Is that what you mean? Let me see if I can find a solution for that. * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [LindaEve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lindaeve/) * (@lindaeve) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/#post-3675499) * Yeah, if I could have nothing but the search box it would be just about perfect( no head row, no “No matching records found”). * Thanks! Linda * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/#post-3675500) * Hi Linda, * I’ve now added some code to the Extension that will hide the table (i.e. the head row and the “No matching records found.” text), if the search field is empty. * To use that, just download a fresh copy from the link above and re-install it( with the necessary modifications to that array). * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [LindaEve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lindaeve/) * (@lindaeve) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/#post-3675501) * Well, looks like we owe you another espresso… * Thanks so much Tobias! * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/#post-3675502) * Hi Linda, * great to hear that this helps! And thanks a lot for that coffee, I really appreciate it! 🙂 * Best wishes, Tobias Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Search function questions’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/tablepress/assets/icon.svg?rev=3192944) * [TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/reviews/) * 10 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-questions/#post-3675502) * Status: resolved