Fri 31 Jul 2009
WP-Table Reloaded
Posted by TobiasBg under Announcements , Plugins[7] Comments
(23 votes, average: 4.09 out of 5)
Loading ...WP-Table Reloaded has been replaced by TablePress!
For more information, please see the official TablePress website at tablepress.org and the plugin’s page in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data. You can include the tables into your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode or a template tag function. Tables can be imported and exported from/to CSV, XML and HTML.
WP-Table Reloaded allows you the following (not necessarily a complete list):
- manage tables in your WP admin area
- show them in your posts, on pages or in text widgets using a shortcode or anywhere else in your theme using a template tag function
- possible table features include (may be enabled for each table individually)
- first row will be table header (HTML tag <th>)
- alternating row colors
- print table’s name above the table
- print table’s description under the table
- use Tablesorter-JavaScript to allow sorting of table data
- individual styling of your table via CSS style-sheet possible (this may be used for different column widths or text-alignment)
- functions in the backend include:
- add tables (by manual input)
- import a table (from CSV, XML or HTML files, URLs or direct input)
- export/save/backup a table to these formats
- import tables from old WP-Table plugin (if found)
- edit the table data and structure (add/insert/delete/move/swap columns/rows, sort columns)
- easily add links or images to your table (from the Media Library)
- copy/duplicate and delete tables
- easily insert a table in to your posts/pages using a button in the editor toolbar
A lot more information, screenshots, a demo, other instructions and the download are available on the plugin website at http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress/plugins/wp-table-reloaded/.
WP-Table Reloaded has been replaced by TablePress!
For more information, please see the official TablePress website at tablepress.org and the plugin’s page in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
(23 votes, average: 4.09 out of 5) Loading ...
This plugin doesn’t meet the plugin rules:
It’s been released in april already.
I was/am a big fan of the original plugin by Alex Boelinger, but since Tobias Baethge has taken over development, it has gone from strength to strength. Haven’t tried out the latest version yet but some of the new features look wonderful.
Love this plugin – this is a new website and we’ve just switched to using the WordPress platform. This table functionality removed one of the obstacles to using WordPress. It’s made my life so much easier.
Great Plugin, except that if you’re not very familiar with css you can’t style each cell differently, ie. one cell bold, another larger, etc. I would also like to ad a contact form in one cell (via mm forms) but it displays the shortcode and not the form. Thanks for any help you could offer…
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Hi Amanda,
thanks for the comment!
You are right, CSS is needed for styling table cells, currently. Not everyone wants a different styling though, so the “Edit table” screen would unnecessarily get “crowded”. And CSS is needed to style a theme, so it’s kind of the same approach.
As for the forms: WP-Table Reloaded completely supports shortcodes within a cell (just try it by inserting a table into another one). I don’t know, why the plugin you mention is not working, but most probably it is, because the shortcode is not implemented correctly (e.g. because the plugin uses its own replacing algorithm and not the one WP provides). There’s nothing that I can do in that case. You might want to contact the author of the forms plugin.
Best wishes!
Tobias
WP-Table Reloaded is a very useful plugin for publishing any kind of table but its author is also amazing.
I needed help and opened a thread on the WP forum. In less than an hour I had a reply from Tobias Bäthge, the author.
I thought I was lucky but when I checked his tracklist, I found he always managed to answer in about 1 or 2 hours.(!)
For sure this guy doesn’t save his energy to keep its plugin running as well as users happy to get some help.
I even contacted him by mail for a specific request and had a very clear and explicit answer in about 1 hour.
Not so common today, this is why I decided to mention it here.
Roger