Hi, Mark 

Thanks for reaching out to us.

I am sorry, but I am not sure at all that I have correctly understood your goal here.

It seems that you wish to set up an "exact match" for the filter, so that it only loads the rows where the value is exactly as searched for in the filter,   and not to allow other "partial results",  where it might be additional values together in a cell.

If that Is what you need, you can simply enable this , in Column settings/Filtering/Exact filtering :

Let me know if that solved what you need;

or maybe if i completely misunderstood, could you elaborate in more detail, with an example - perhaps with additional screenshots, or a short video?

Thank you

Hi, Mark

I think i understood now, thank you for this clarification.

So, basically, if you search for "Soccer and Basketball",  in the multiselectbox,

you want to get only the resulting cells that contain both soccer and basketball together in cells;

but to exclude the cells where there is only Soccer or only Basketball?

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You can try this custom workaround to change the filtering logic from "OR" to "AND" , 

i believe that should help.

- Since here you are using "server-side processing" for your tables ( Manual table),

 you can edit a piece of the code in this file path :

 "   wp-content/plugins/wpdatatables/source/class.wpdatatable.php   "

Find this line

$search .= " OR ";

and overwrite it with this

$search .= " AND ";

Let me know if that works as a solution for you?

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And just to note, this code would get overwritten during updates, so you would have to repeat this at every update of the plugin.

Thank you

Hi, Mark 

Sorry for the delayed response.

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You're welcome, i am happy to help.

If i understand, you have edited the code, and it's working as it should? ( Just checking, it should be).

If you wish to see a built-in option to select the way how the filtering behaves, you can make a suggestion for our developers,

and they will do their best to create an option in the future.

Please feel free to search on our suggestions page, 

 to see if someone may be already suggested this feature. If you can't see it, feel free to add your suggestion there,  and as more people vote, the feature will move higher on the priority list.

You can certainly follow our changeLog page if you'd like ( it is also available in the plugin dashboard), where we state any changes/new features/bug fixes during updates;

and our newsletter, so you're informed about new features, bug fixes, freebies, etc.

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For the time being, though,  you will have to repeat this process at every Update,  because this code will be overwritten with the default one.

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Let me know if you have any additional questions on this. Thank you