Title: URL Parameter Filter Issues
Last modified: March 4, 2021

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# URL Parameter Filter Issues

 *  Resolved [jkatinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkatinger/)
 * (@jkatinger)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-parameter-filter-issues/)
 * Hello Tobias,
 * Thank you for this awesome plugin! It’s been great for my project thus far, but
   I’m running into an issue getting the filtering by URL parameter to work.
 * The table in question is located here:
    [https://toflyandfight.com/357th-tribute/group-mission-list/](https://toflyandfight.com/357th-tribute/group-mission-list/)
 * I’d like to auto-filter this table upon page render via linking to it like so:
   
   [https://toflyandfight.com/357th-tribute/group-mission-list/?table_filter=anderson](https://toflyandfight.com/357th-tribute/group-mission-list/?table_filter=anderson)
 * I currently have the TablePress plugin and these extensions installed and activated:
   –
   tablepress-datatables-auto-filter – tablepress-row-filter – tablepress-shortcode-
   filter-get-parameter
 * I’ve read several similar tickets to mine that are all closed, but I’m still 
   not understanding why my parameter filtered URL doesn’t work. Any help you could
   offer would be greatly appreciated.
 * Thanks,
    Josh
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Furl-parameter-filter-issues%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)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-parameter-filter-issues/#post-14132566)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * First, please make sure that you made this modification: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-filtering-by-url-parameter/#post-10149102](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-filtering-by-url-parameter/#post-10149102)
 * Then, please check if the Shortcode on that page is
 *     ```
       [table_filter id=8 /]
       ```
   
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [jkatinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkatinger/)
 * (@jkatinger)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-parameter-filter-issues/#post-14134101)
 * The Shortcode was the issue! Not sure why that didn’t make sense last night. 
   I did not need to make the code change recommended here to get this to work, 
   but is this something I should do for security reasons?
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-parameter-filter-issues/#post-14135843)
 * Hi,
 * good to hear that it works now!
 * No, you don’t need to make that code change (and even then it would not be related
   to security at all). It would just alter the used filtering mechanism. Instead
   of using the static filtering (that you are using now), you could use the JavaScript
   filtering (via the search field above the table). That way, the visitor could
   still change the filter term even though one was predefined in the URL parameter.
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-parameter-filter-issues/#post-14135843)
 * Status: resolved