Hello midfieldco.

Thank you for your interest in our plugin.

Sorry for the late response - we've had non-working days in our country due to the Easter holiday.

wpDataTables is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) concept based plugin. This means that the table should look the same both in back-end and in front-end. So, if you set the wdt_ID column to be hidden it will be hidden everywhere. You can, however, hide it using CSS on a specific page. It'd look something like this:

<style>
td.column-wdt_id {
display: none !important;
}
th.column-wdt_id {
display: none !important;
}
</style>
[wpdatatable id=1]

Can you tell me if you're using some readers for RSS?

As for the charts - that is default behavior of charts engine, but if you need some custom solution you can check in our documentation about wpDataCharts callbacks. 

• Every chart exposes several options that customize its look and feel. Charts usually support custom options appropriate to that visualization. wpdatachart callbacks  allows adding options that are available in Google Charts API, Highcharts API and Chart.js API. 

• All necessary resource are available in charts engines API (depends on which one you use). Every engine has different approach of charts settings. In wpdatachart callbacks you have to adopt those settings to wpdatachart object(you can take a look an example for each engine in our documentation and also in Support help center). Huge number of examples for any area of programming you can find on stackoverflow.com(typing your problem in google and of the end add site:stackoverflow.com and google will search only on that website) and also a lot of resource of examples of chart, chart settings and customization you can find on jsffidle. net(typing in google for example line chart highcharts jsffidle)
• Please note that using hooks or wpdatatable and wpdatachart callbacks requires certain level of programming skills and included support refers only to advises.

Best regards.