Plugin – How to create tables in wordpress blog post?
Tables are a good part of a post if you want to show some score card, earning charts or something else. And creating charts and tables in Microsoft office tools and integrating them to wordpress is just hard for everyone. And for wordpress blogs, there is a plugin for that.
It is wp-table plugin for wordpress blogs. It helps in integrating multiple tables into a post, and customizing the tables in every way as you like.
This plugin creates and manages tables for wordpress. So you can post i.e. sport results in a fixed table format. You don’t need to enter tables anymore in the plain text mode and the WYSIWYG editor didn’t damage the table layout. The table layout can be changed via a css file and you can import a csv file as table.
There are many settings where you can -
- Add or remove columns and rows
- Customize the stylesheet and fix the size of table
- Colors can be changed from the Manage > Tables panel
- Can make multiple tables and use in a single post
- Have the option of sorting the list in table with some order
There are many options that you would come across when playing around with the plugin.
How to install the plugin?
Copy all files in the plugin folder “wp-table” . Activate the plugin and start under Manage -> Tables to edit your first table. The plugin creates automatic one sample table in you wordpress database. If you would like to edit online the CSS file, set the write permission for wp-table.css .
Edit everything through the Manage > tables section and then every table will be given an ID. In the blog post, use this code -
[TABLE=ID]
Replace ID with the number or your desired table, and its set.
Check the plugin homepage to download.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
this is interesting, thanks for sharing. I am still new in wp.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Hi there,
This is my first visit. I love your blog, full of information.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
cool plugin
never knew
Thanks for the info
October 16th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Although I hate websites like MySpace that design their entire site around tables, there are definitely times when it’s appropriate to use tables within the body of a post, so I’ll definitely be bookmarking this plugin.
October 16th, 2008 at 4:44 am
oh I like to ask you if you know about contact form plugin. I have my friend do all he can to help me. But the contact form in my heart random still not working.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Interesting plugin…… may require at some time or the other..
October 16th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Beautiful plugin there chetan, just got it in the right time as i wanted to make a table for my dental blog.
October 18th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Thanks for the sharing, its a nice plugin. WordPress is improving by the time to time.
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I have so much to learn.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
This is so cool.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
I hope it’s possible in Blogger blogs too.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
@BM I thought you are using wp?
October 24th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
@BM I wish its for blogspot blog too.
January 11th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Hey great post I enjoyed reading that. Would this be suitable as a football table solution? I am currently building a community football website for the local team and am having trouble finding a pluggin that would automatically reposition teams on the table when scores are put in. Does anything like this exist? thanks
February 13th, 2009 at 4:14 am
This is what I’m looking for, Thank you for the Articles. I haven’t try it yet but I hope I could post plus a table in my post.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I am still confused on how to insert the tag into a post. The instructions say Go to your post an enter the tag [TABLE=ID]. I know the ID is just the number of the table. My question is how do I insert that into the post. When I put that code into the source part of the blog, nothing happens. Thanks.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Just what I needed today. Thanks for posting this!
November 7th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Thanx a lot, very useful plugin!
February 9th, 2010 at 11:12 am
It’s unbelievable WP hasn’t created a such feature. Thanks to your blog, I found waht I was looking for (tables in WP).
April 8th, 2010 at 11:11 am
If i have a long table so how i create a next and back button in the end of the table?
i mean in the same page the table very long but i want to create the table in 10 layers only and in the end Next button..
can you help?
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:30 am
where do you find the “wp-table” folder. I use the INove theme. Do you instructions work with this theme?