I am planning to use a 3rd party Image storage server, I want to enter the url of that image into the table column field cell, will that work and will I be able to create thumbnails?
Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologize for the delayed response as we have been experiencing an unusually high number of tickets. I am sorry that it has taken longer than usual to respond to your concern and your patience is highly appreciated.
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Yes. When we use an Image column, or a string column with HTML image tag,
in both cases, we can use any URL of images, they do not have to be on your server.
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The easiest way, if you only with to have one image URL per one cell,
then you can use our Image column type.
Rendering rules: If the content of the cells contains a combination of “two sticks” – || – everything to the left of this combination is used as a link to the thumbnail, and everything to the right as a link to the full image size.
Sometimes some issues may appear when you’re sorting on image columns, since it’s done alphabetically, and alphabetic sorting of HTML typically doesn’t make sense.
Please note that the plugin does not create thumbnails (at least for the moment), so you will need to take care of this yourself.
If you would like to open full-size images in lightbox, you can use a plugin for that, e.g. WP Lightbox 2 (please note that this is available for tables that aren’t editable)
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The only other way , is to use a String Type column,
and then you have to input custom HTML , and to wrap image links in HTML.
I am planning to use a 3rd party Image storage server, I want to enter the url of that image into the table column field cell, will that work and will I be able to create thumbnails?
Please guide on how it works in wpdatatables
Hi, Bimal
Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologize for the delayed response as we have been experiencing an unusually high number of tickets. I am sorry that it has taken longer than usual to respond to your concern and your patience is highly appreciated.
-
Yes. When we use an Image column, or a string column with HTML image tag,
in both cases, we can use any URL of images, they do not have to be on your server.
-
1.
The easiest way, if you only with to have one image URL per one cell,
then you can use our Image column type.
Rendering rules: If the content of the cells contains a combination of “two sticks” – || – everything to the left of this combination is used as a link to the thumbnail, and everything to the right as a link to the full image size.
Please check more details on how our image columns work here.
2.
The only other way , is to use a String Type column,
and then you have to input custom HTML , and to wrap image links in HTML.
Please check more on our string columns here.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
[email protected]
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