Hi manfulsurefire,
Thank you for your purchase.

Can you try to insert \ before the apostrophe like this "18/8 Fine Men\'s Salon". Do the same in VAR1 input field and also in shortcode and let me know is it working.

Hi manfulsurefire,

Can you please tell me did you insert that string also in input for VAR1 placeholder.(attachment)

Hi manfulsurefire,

Sorry for late response. 

We are located in Serbia and our working time is from 10:00 to 17:00 CET. business days.

Yes I reproduce it in our local environment. I will forward this to my team to investigate and figure out what cause the issue and fix it for next update. Thank you for reporting this.

Best regards.

Hi manfulsurefire,

We will try to be as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.

Best regards.

Hi manfulsurefire,

Yes there is quick fix that I can send you if you want, but we are still testing to check out is everything is working fine.

Hi manfulsurefire,

In file wp-content/plugins/wpdatatables/source/class.wdttools.php around line 113 you will find this code:

// Shortcode VAR1
if (strpos($string, '%VAR1%') !== false) {    $string = str_replace('%VAR1%', $wdtVar1, $string);
}
// Shortcode VAR2
if (strpos($string, '%VAR2%') !== false) {    $string = str_replace('%VAR2%', $wdtVar2, $string);
}
// Shortcode VAR3
if (strpos($string, '%VAR3%') !== false) {    $string = str_replace('%VAR3%', $wdtVar3, $string);
}

and you have to replace it with this one:

// Shortcode VAR1
if (strpos($string, '%VAR1%') !== false) {    $string = str_replace('%VAR1%', addslashes($wdtVar1), $string);
}
// Shortcode VAR2
if (strpos($string, '%VAR2%') !== false) {    $string = str_replace('%VAR2%', addslashes($wdtVar2), $string);
}
// Shortcode VAR3
if (strpos($string, '%VAR3%') !== false) {    $string = str_replace('%VAR3%', addslashes($wdtVar3), $string);
}

Now you can insert in short code [wpdatatable id=1 VAR1="18/8 Fine Men's Salon" ] and filtering will work properly. This will be included in next update so you don't have to worry about changing code again.

Best regards

Hi manfulsurefire,

I am glad that is working fine.

About the second question:

When you have questions or issues which are not related to the title of the active ticket can you please open a new one and we will help you there. In that way, issues and questions which are related to different subjects will be in different tickets so other customers can find it easily. Our policy is to have one issue or question per ticket because of the reasons that is describe already.

Thank you for understanding.