Title: Custom Search Builder
Author: Tobias Bäthge
Published: December 1, 2022
Last modified: May 14, 2025

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Show a search builder interface for filtering from groups and using conditions.

# Custom Search Builder

The Custom Search Builder feature module offers highly advanced filtering options
for site visitors.

## Feature description

Here’s an example. Click the “Add Condition” button to configure a filter. For example,
select “Year” in the “Data” field, “Less than” in the “Condition” dropdown, and 
type in “1996” in the “Value” field to only list people born before 1996.

  |  Name | Year | Country | Sport | Time | Rate | Fee |  
   |  Eric | 1986 | Sweden | Soccer | 05:25 | 40.4% | $7.14 |

[Use this feature with TablePress Max today](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md)

## Usage instructions

To use these features with your tables, activate the “Custom Search Builder” feature
module on the “Modules” screen of TablePress Max. Then, configure the desired options
in the “Custom Search Builder” section on the table’s “Edit” screen.

![Screenshot of the "Custom Search Builder" configuration section in the TablePress
Premium versions.](https://tablepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/datatables-
searchbuilder.png)

The “Custom Search Builder” configuration section in the TablePress Premium versions.

## Configuration parameters

To configure this module’s features, you can also use these [configuration parameters](https://tablepress.org/faq/configuration-parameter-reference/)
in the “TablePress Table” [block](https://tablepress.org/faq/documentation-tablepress-table-block/),
the Elementor widget, or in the [Shortcode](https://tablepress.org/faq/documentation-shortcode-table/)
that you are using to embed the table:

  |  Module | Slug |  | Configuration parameter | Name | Description | Type | Default value |  
   |  Custom Search Builder | datatables-searchbuilder |  | datatables_searchbuilder | Custom Search Builder | Whether to show a search builder interface for filtering from groups and using conditions. | boolean (`true` or `false`) | `false` |

The “Custom Search Builder” feature module is part of the [**TablePress Max plan**](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md).

**On this page**

 1. [Feature description](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-searchbuilder/#feature-description)
 2. [Usage instructions](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-searchbuilder/#instructions)
 3. [Configuration parameters](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-searchbuilder/#configuration)