Table doesn't show up

  • Resolved bloggingdan

    (@bloggingdan)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    Greetings. I’m working on a site for a client, and need a styled collapsible table. I’m pretty sure TablePress is the solution, but when I import the table and insert the shortcode, the table doesn’t show up. I tried on another site, and it works just fine.

    The site is running the theme Vulcan, version 2.6.

    The page generates this source code where the table should be:

    <div class=”table-“></div>

    The site where it shows up generates this source code where the table is:

    <div class=”post-entry”>
    <table id=”tablepress-1″ class=”tablepress tablepress-id-1″>

    Followed by the code for the table.

    Is Vulcan simply incompatible with TablePress? Any idea how to get this to show up?

    Thanks,
    Dan

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/tablepress/

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  • Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Dan,

    thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

    This indicates that either the theme or another plugin also come with a [table] Shortcode, and that gets evaluated first. (There are several themes that do this.)
    To work around this, you could change the Shortcode that TablePress uses, e.g. to [tp-table]. For that, please take a look at this TablePress Extension: http://tablepress.org/extensions/table-shortcode/

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter bloggingdan

    (@bloggingdan)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks so much. That solved the issue!

    Thread Starter bloggingdan

    (@bloggingdan)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Once more question, if I can (sorry about this; the client’s coder is extremely busy, so I’m trying to muddle through): I thought I could use TablePress Extension: Row Details to make the table collapsible so that we could have rows with category headings that a site visitor could click on to reveal rows with different products in that category.

    So, for instance, the Category would be Row 1. Rows 2-7 would be hidden unless someone clicked on Row 1.

    Then a similar set-up for Row 8 and Rows 9-12, etc.

    Is there a way to do that for someone with limited coding experience?

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    good to hear that the table now shows up!

    Regarding the new question: That’s not how the “Row Details” Extension works, unfortunately. It can only show extra information about that particular row, but it will not hide other rows until it’s clicked. (One could create the impression of that behavior by putting smaller tables into the bigger table, but’s kind of ugly and messy.)
    Instead of using a table plugin for this, have you thought about a regular “accordion” plugin that offers something like sections that can be expanded on the page?

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter bloggingdan

    (@bloggingdan)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    I will look into that. Would a plug-in like that play nicely with TablePress, or would I have to input the table manually?

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    yes, the combination should work. You could for example create a separate table for each category and use those in the individual sections.

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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