Hello Sina

Thanks for reaching out to us about this.

You can freely attempt these changes yourself. I've forwarded the question to our development team, and I'll get back to you as soon as I hear back from them.

Hello again Sina

Only server-side tables have ajax (manual tables and SQL query based tables). All other tables don't have ajax, and you can check this in the browser's inspect-console, in the network tab.

The plugin is based on Datatables jQuery plugin, and this is their built-in option.

Thank you for your suggestions:

"In the settings of each table we can choose whether the search structure is Ajax or not"

This can't be done because tables with over 2.000 rows are automatically switched to server-side tables, and ajax will be used.

If you have a table with less than 2.000 rows, you can turn off server-side, and you'll have a global search without ajax. This is for SQL query based tables. If you have a manual table, you can go to its Editing tab above the table, and copy the table's MySQL table name for editing. Then, you can create an SQL query based table from that MySQL table name, and turn off server-side for that table as well (if it has less than 2.000 rows).

"In the settings you allow us to create a time delay, for example the request is sent to the server after n second"

This wasn't possible before, but in the new version of Datatables, there's a property searchDelay, which is still not perfect because it works after the second input.

You can try using a hook.

 function extendJSONDescription($tableDescription, $tableId, $wpDataTable)
{ // $tableDescription is the PHP StdObj which contains all the necessary fields for initializing the table
 // $tableId is the table identifier from the MySQL table (wp_wpdatatables)
 // $wpDataTable in main object with all table and column properties
 // Check is it server side table if ($wpDataTable->serverSide()){
 //Default valuesfor searchDelay // Instant - for client-side processing // 400mS - for server-side processing // values is in milliseconds, we insert 5000, but you will set for your needs $tableDescription->dataTableParams->searchDelay = 5000;
 }
 return $tableDescription;
}
add_filter('wpdatatables_filter_table_description', 'extendJSONDescription', 10, 3);

We will take this into consideration in the next period to see what can be done about this.

Please tell me, why did you open the ticket in the pre-purchase section, and not in the wpDataTables section, since it's obvious you have the full version of the plugin?

Thank you for the screencast, Sina

I forwarded it to our developer again, and I'll get back to you as soon as I have news.

Hello again Sina

You don't seem to have the latest version of the plugin. We've included a 500ms delay when user is done with the entry, and that was included in the last update; that's why you can't replicate the issue on our sandbox site.

Please update the plugin, and it should work fine after that.

Since you didn't answer my question before, I have to ask you again - please tell me why did you open the ticket in the pre-purchase section, and not in the wpDataTables section, since it's obvious you have the full version of the plugin?

Hi again Sina

I don't know if that code will work for you, since we'd need to install that old version in order to test it. Older versions of the plugin are not supported, and should only be used for testing purposes.

Early versions 3.X have some issues with WordPress 5.6, so you will need to update it to v3.3 as soon as possible to avoid any other issues with the plugin.