Title: Using Row Filtering Extension.
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Using Row Filtering Extension.

 *  Resolved [James Barr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/james-barr/)
 * (@james-barr)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-row-filtering-extension/)
 * Hi Tobias,
    Thank you for a great plugin. I am currently using the Row filtering
   to create categories for my song list, therefor I only need to use the one table
   data set. My site is under development by me at: [http://dev.atomicband.com.au/?page_id=169](http://dev.atomicband.com.au/?page_id=169)
 * I have created individual pages for each shortcode with rows filter except the“
   All songs page” which is just the standard shortcode, but I can easily create
   another column with row filter and tag all the songs.
    ie: page 1 – [table id
   =1 /] page 2 – [table id=1 filter=”2000tonow” /] page 3 – [table id=1 filter=”
   90s” /] etc…
 * The table has all these categories as columns that are matched to each song. 
   I just hide them so they don’t show up on the webpages.
 * I have created a menu links bar to go to each page. 8 in total.
    It seems quite
   extreme to have to go to a new page for every category I need when its using 
   the same data table set but just changing the filter set.
 * Is there a more efficient way of doing this.
 * It adds a lot of extra time to load each page, plus when on an iPad or iPhone
   and you are listening to the mp3 player while looking through the list, when 
   you change categories it turns off the player. Plus on those devices its slowing
   down the browsing experience especially if its a slow connection.
 * There must be some simple bit of code that on the menu link tells the filter 
   what to display.
 * Im hoping you have an answer or could point me to someone that would know how
   to do this, I’m sure it would be very useful to other people.
 * Warm regards
 * James
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 *  Thread Starter [James Barr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/james-barr/)
 * (@james-barr)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-row-filtering-extension/#post-7223170)
 * UPDATE:
    Apologies. I did a further search and found that my next port of call
   has been answered. Use the “Shortcode Filter from GET parameter” Extension.
 * This does almost exactly what I’m after.
 * I have now engaged my site to have multiple custom menu links on my songfest 
   page with the filter extension which use the one main page with the single data
   table.
    The only problem at the moment is it loads a new page overtime, even 
   though its the same page with a row filter, this triggers my mp3 to turn off 
   on iOS devices and makes my sidebar Facebook feed restart also.
 * Are there other options that can do the same thing except maybe a link on that
   page sends the GET info inside the same page to localise the filter like it does
   with the search. Therefor it wouldn’t set off anything else on the page as mentioned
   earlier?
 * I have an idea, would it work for instance how when you can do on page linking
   to certain spots/locations down the page, creating shortcut links. Would this
   stop the whole page from reloading? If so, how would I do that exactly?
 * Cheers
 * James
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-row-filtering-extension/#post-7223265)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble as well as for the late reply.
   I’ve been on holidays and therefore couldn’t reply earlier.
 * Sorry, for this sort of filtering, full page reloads are necessary, so there’s
   not direct way around that. You could however perform the filtering using the
   regular DataTables search. For that, the TablePress Extension at [https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-button-filter/](https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-button-filter/)
   might be good starting point.
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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