Hello Kyle

I am sorry to disappoint you, but unfortunately something like this is not possible with the plugin's built-in features.

Table filters work only on their tables, and the charts created from that table. There's no way to use one "master" filter for all charts.

Hi again Kyle

You're right - "Follow table filtering" will work for the visible rows, and if you filter the table, but the generated chart will be generated based on what is currently displayed in the table on front-end.

I'd recommend updating to the latest version of wpDataTables (3.0.1), but that will not resolve the issue, and the range picker would not work (we have a bug in there somewhere). Our developers are working on resolving that, but until then I don't have any code to send that would fix the issue for you.

What you can do, in this particular case, though, would be to create an SQL query based table where you would add a WHERE condition, to pull only those rows.

For example, if in the "Name" column you have "Mike", "Dave", "John", "Lucy", "Mary", and you only want rows from a few names, you'd create a query like:

SELECT * FROM myTable
WHERE name = 'Mike' and name = 'John' and name = 'Mary'

That would create a table showing only those 3 rows, and then you would be able to create a chart from that table. Filtering from the original table would not work on that chart, though.