The 403 Forbidden error is an HTTP status code which means that accessing the page or resource you were trying to reach is absolutely forbidden for some reason. Our suggestion is to check your server log and see if there are some errors and also if you have some security plugins please try to deactivate it and see if it will work after that. Also, check if the mod_security is turn-on on your server.

In order to show column filters in a table, you have “Render advanced filter” option where you can choose options “In the header” and “In the footer” on the wpDataTables Settings page.

If you need to show column filters outside of the table you can do that with option Filter in form. To use it you need to go to the “Sorting and Filtering” tab in the table settings, first enable “Advanced column filters”, and then enable the “Filter in form”.

“Advanced filter in a widget” (in WordPress sidebar) is one more way with which you can use column filters outside of the table. This way you can define the region of the page where to render the filtering form. More about this and about Advanced filters you can find on this link.

This can be changed from “Number format” drop-down menu in the wpDataTables Settings page.

Display date format of a date column can be changed in wpDataTables Settings page from “Date format” drop-down menu.

Display time format of a time column can be changed in wpDataTables Settings page from “Time format” drop-down menu.

In wpDataTables column settings for every column there are text fields “Cell content prefix” and “cell content suffix”.
Values from those text fields will be used for adding text before or/and after every cell content in a column.
This feature uses CSS for displaying entered text, therefore sorting of the columns will not be affected.

If you are using separate MySQL connection option to connect to MySQL database, you can test if connection can actually be established with “Test MySQL settings” button.
If connection can’t be established, first please make sure that all entered values needed for connection are correct.
Also make sure that MySQL server is allowing remote connections and that MySQL user that you are trying to connect with is allowed to connect from your sites host(IP address).

From 2.3 version of our plugin there is an option to add more than one separate database connection. Now every table can have its own separate database connection, so tables can pull data from multiple databases and servers.