Tablepress table not showing preview

[yeang.chng73Participant]

Hi there,

I am using Tablepress for tables, and i activated the Index engine to include that in Ajax Pro search results.

However, when I search, the page “Test Table” shows up but no description preview of the content shows.

You can try searching with the keyword “Claison”. The preview results correctly show for a different page with the same data(Phone-EMMC), but not done through the Tablepress plugin.

If you go to the tablepress page, the text is white on a whiteish background so it’s hard to see. I need to fix the CSS but all the data is there.

[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

Hi,

If I understand correctly, you want to display some of the tablepress table data within the live search preview?
Well, the plugin by default gets only the unexecuted shortcode contents, but you can try changing that here. That does not mean, it will work properly or at all though – as many shortcodes, including the tablepress plugin are designed to work on a single page context.

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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[yeang.chng73Participant]

Hi Ernest!

Thank you for your quick support. Yes, exactly, I want to display some of the tablepress table data around the search hit term in the live search preview. The idea here is that the table is for phone numbers, and if the information needed shows up on the live preview, users will not even have to click through to the actual table page.

I tried the option you ask, and did an index rebuild, and all it did was give the shortcode as the preview. See attached screenshot:

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[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

That means the shortcode is probably not registered at that time of execution. Maybe a solution with a custom code may work, but I cannot guarantee that either.

Try adding this custom code to the functions.php in your theme/child theme directory. Before editing, please make sure to have a full site back-up just in case!

add_filter( 'asp_results', 'asp_force_execute_shortcodes', 10, 1 );
function asp_force_execute_shortcodes( $results ) {
	foreach ($results as $k=>&$r) {
		if ( isset($r->post_type) ) {
			$r->content = apply_filters('the_content', get_post_field('post_content', $r->id));
		}
	}

	return $results;
}

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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[yeang.chng73Participant]

Hi Ernest,

Thanks for this code. However, it expanded the search for the page without tables, but for the page with Tablepress table it didn’t do anything:

See screenshot attached.

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[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

In that case I’m afraid this is probably not possible. The tablepress shortcode is very likely not registered in that context of execution. Maybe one last chance via forceful shortcode execution with this code:

add_filter( 'asp_results', 'asp_force_execute_shortcodes', 10, 1 );
function asp_force_execute_shortcodes( $results ) {
	foreach ($results as $k=>&$r) {
		if ( isset($r->post_type) ) {
			$r->content = do_shortcode(apply_filters('the_content', get_post_field('post_content', $r->id)));
		}
	}

	return $results;
}

But very likely this variation will not change anythig, if the shortcode does not exist yet.

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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