Title: TablePress will not save data
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# TablePress will not save data

 *  Resolved [akj3143](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akj3143/)
 * (@akj3143)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-will-not-save-data/)
 * I can successfully import a table to Tablepress but when I try to edit the table
   and save it, but when I try to edit it to make changes, it seems to hang. Trying
   to remove text in the description row can take several minutes as it is extremely
   slow. Then when it is changed the following message appears:
 * Saving failed: AJAX call successful, internal saving process failed. Try again
   while holding down the “Shift” key.
 * It won’t work even holding down the shift key. I thought it might be the size
   of the table, but even a table with six rows will not save. I contacted our host
   and he is as puzzled as we are as to why it will not save. He tried several different
   solutions, emptying the cache, turning off security, and none of them work.
 * My site is not on line yet, so I cannot include a link to the site.
 * [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 ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-will-not-save-data/#post-7433488)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * I assume that something is interfering with the internal save process here.
    
   Can you therefore please try again after temporarily deactivating all other plugins
   and after switchting to a WordPress default theme like Twenty Sixteen? That way,
   we can find what’s causing this.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [akj3143](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akj3143/)
 * (@akj3143)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-will-not-save-data/#post-7433536)
 * I did find a solution to the problem. After reading through previous posts on
   this same subject, it said that the problem was solved by making sure there was
   text in the description area.
 * I also found that one of my tables had too many columns.
 * Once I removed the table with the large number of columns and added descriptors
   to the other tables, I was able to save the tables.
 * But that leaves the question, if a table is too large, what is too large? And
   if one table is too large, why does it cause a problem with every other table
   not being able to be saved?
 * Are there a specific number of columns and rows that are allowed in a table?
 * Thank you for your assistance and suggestions. I did not deactivate plugins and
   change the theme, I deleted the large table and that found the first half of 
   the problem. Reading previous posts gave me the second half to fix this issue.
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-will-not-save-data/#post-7433540)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for the update! Those are nice findings!
 * Yes, this could indeed been caused by the description being empty then. I had
   ruled that out initially, because you had talked about the description field 
   being used. Sorry for that wrong interpretation.
    Basically, this is caused by
   some server configuration that is not passing the description field as “empty”,
   but merely as “non-existant”. :-/ So, using an arbitrary description should work
   around this.
 * For the table size: There’s no limit for the number of rows or columns in TablePress.
   However, there are limits on the server, e.g. the PHP Memory or the size of a
   transfered variable in an HTTP request. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to put
   that into numbers, as each server is different.
    A good starting point is to 
   increase the PHP Memory Limit, by increasing the value of the `WP_MEMORY_LIMIT`
   constant in the wp-config.php file, e.g. to `512M`, via the instructions from
   [https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP](https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP)
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-will-not-save-data/#post-7433540)
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