I'm testing the WPDataTables plugin, and while it works well eventually, the page times out before it fully loads. I have the names of over 49,000 Americans held as prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II, and it's a 5 MB CSV. Is there a way to have a progress bar or a notice to WordPress that the page is loading so the end user doesn't think the page is unresponsive?
There should be a loading icon on the page while the table is loading. Do you not see it?
Either way, CSV is not a good choice with a table of this size.
By default, this format will work only up to a certain limit (no exact limit, but 3.000 – 5.000 cells is a good example). If you have a larger file, the page load time will increase.
However, with the new caching option that was implemented in wpDataTables 5.0, this issue is partially resolved for large tables linked to an existing data source.
I'm testing the WPDataTables plugin, and while it works well eventually, the page times out before it fully loads. I have the names of over 49,000 Americans held as prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II, and it's a 5 MB CSV. Is there a way to have a progress bar or a notice to WordPress that the page is loading so the end user doesn't think the page is unresponsive?
Hello Jason.
Thank you for reaching out to us.
There should be a loading icon on the page while the table is loading. Do you not see it?
Either way, CSV is not a good choice with a table of this size.
By default, this format will work only up to a certain limit (no exact limit, but 3.000 – 5.000 cells is a good example). If you have a larger file, the page load time will increase.
However, with the new caching option that was implemented in wpDataTables 5.0, this issue is partially resolved for large tables linked to an existing data source.
For really large data sets, it also makes sense to import the data to MySQL, you can use the “Create a table by importing data from data source” option to do this.
Kind Regards,
Aleksandar Vuković
[email protected]
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