Gideonengel

I have the same issue. Did you resolve this?

Regards

• This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by Gideonengel.

Hi Tobias. Thank you for an amazing plugin. For newbies like myself it is much appreciated.

However with regards to the above question on filtering a table based on the user logged in I am not successful as no filtering is done. Where am I making a mistake? I have a table in which I have a column named Alias (which corresponds to the user name, which has no role). Here is my adaptation from tablepress-shortcode-filter-get-parameter.php :

          <?php
/*
Plugin Name: TablePress Extension: Shortcode Filter from GET parameter
Plugin URI: https://tablepress.org/extensions/shortcode-filter-get-parameter/
Description: Custom Extension for TablePress to use the Row Filter extension with a filter term from a $_GET parameter
Version: 1.0
Author: Tobias Bäthge
Author URI: https://tobias.baethge.com/
*/

/*
 * The Shortcode: [table_filter id=123 /]
 * will be filtered for http://example.com/?table_filter=myfilterword
 */

function tablepress_filter_shortcode( $attributes, $content ) {
	if ( ! empty( $_GET['table_filter'] ) ) {
		$filter_term = $_GET['table_filter'];
		/*
		 * Only allow characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and spaces in the filter term.
		 * This regular expression needs to be extended if other characters shall be allowed.
		 */
		$filter_term = wp_get_current_user();
		$attributes['filter'] = $filter_term;
	}
	return tablepress_get_table( $attributes );
}

if ( ! is_admin() ) {
	add_shortcode( 'table_filter', 'tablepress_filter_shortcode' );
}

In my page I have the following shortcode : [table id=1 ?table_filter=$($alias) /]

Where am I going wrong? By the way I am working with XAMPP as a localhost.

Regards

• This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by Gideonengel.

Hi Tobias. Thank you for your prompt reply. You are one of the best plugin-authors with regards to support. I’ve made a small donation.
My situation is as follows : I am total newby, with no coding knowledge.
I am using a localhost (XAMPP), and will be doing so until my website is ready to go live (2 months from now?).So unfortunately I cannot give you a link.
So with regards to the ColumnFilterWidget : I have tried different themes (twenty eleven,twelve and thirteen) with no luck. The dropdown boxes do appear and are populated with data. But when I choose a value the filter does not work, still showing all values in the table.
I’ve googled a bit – could it it be a XAMPP, jQuery issue?
Best wishes

Being a new to WP I lost you in step 3. I have create a new file called “Login” using Advanced Code editor. I cannot see the file (I’m using the Twenty Twelve template) to paste the code into.
I can see the file was created in my /wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/ folder, but it is not a php file. I am using XAMPP as a localhost.

Thank you in advance