TablePress is the most popular and highest rated WordPress table plugin. It allows you to easily create and manage beautiful tables on your website. You can embed the tables into posts, pages, or other site areas using a block in the block editor. Table data can be edited in a spreadsheet-like interface, without any coding. Tables can contain any type of data, even math formulas that will be evaluated. Additional features like sorting, pagination, and filtering make it easy for site visitors to interact with the table data. Tables can be imported and exported from/to Excel, CSV, HTML, and JSON files.
Even more great features for you and your site’s visitors and priority email support are available with a Premium license plan of TablePress. Go check them out!
More information
Visit the plugin website at tablepress.org for more information, take a look at example tables, or check out TablePress on a free test site. For latest news, follow @TablePress on Twitter.
Usage
After installing the plugin, you can create and manage tables on the “TablePress” screen in the WordPress Dashboard.
To insert a table into a post or page, add a “TablePress table” block in the block editor and select the desired table.
Examples for common styling changes via “Custom CSS” code can be found on the TablePress FAQ page.
You may also add certain features (like sorting, pagination, filtering, alternating row colors, row highlighting, print name and/or description, …) by enabling the corresponding checkboxes on a table’s “Edit” screen.
Even more great features for you and your site’s visitors and priority email support are available with a Premium license plan of TablePress. Go check them out!
License
This plugin is Free Software, released and licensed under the GPL, version 2. You may use it free of charge for any purpose.
This plugin provides 1 block.
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TablePress table
Embed a TablePress table.
The easiest way to install TablePress is via your WordPress Dashboard:
- Go to the “Plugins” screen, click “Add New”, and search for “TablePress” in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
- Click “Install Now” and after that’s complete, click “Activate”.
- Create and manage tables by going to the “TablePress” screen in the admin menu.
- To insert a table into a post or page, add a “TablePress table” block in the block editor and select the desired table.
- You can change the table styling by using CSS code, which can be entered into the “Custom CSS” textarea on the “Plugin Options” screen.
Manual installation works just as for other WordPress plugins:
- Download and extract the ZIP file.
- Move the folder “tablepress” to the “wp-content/plugins/” directory of your WordPress installation, e.g. via FTP.
- Activate the plugin “TablePress” on the “Plugins” screen of your WordPress Dashboard.
- Create and manage tables by going to the “TablePress” screen in the admin menu.
- To insert a table into a post or page, add a “TablePress table” block in the block editor and select the desired table.
- You can change the table styling by using CSS code, which can be entered into the “Custom CSS” textarea on the “Plugin Options” screen.
Where can I find answers to Frequently Asked Questions?
Many questions, regarding different features or styling, have been answered on the FAQ page on the plugin website.
Support?
Premium Support
Users with a valid TablePress Premium license plan are eligible for Priority Email Support, directly from the plugin developer! Find out more!
Community Support for users of the Free version
For support questions, bug reports, or feature requests, please use the WordPress Support Forums. Please search through the forums first, and only create a new topic if you don’t find an existing answer. Thank you!
Requirements?
In short: WordPress 5.8 or higher, while the latest version of WordPress is always recommended.
Languages and Localization?
TablePress uses the “Translate WordPress” platform. Please see the sidebar on the TablePress page in the WordPress Plugin Directory for available translations.
To make TablePress available in your language, go to the TablePress translations page, log in with a free wordpress.org account and start translating.
Development
You can follow the development of TablePress more closely in its official GitHub repository.
Where can I get more information?
Visit the plugin website at tablepress.org for the latest information on TablePress or follow @TablePress on Twitter.
“TablePress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Recent changes are shown below. For earlier changes, please see the changelog history.
Version 2.0
Besides a fresh and modern look of the TablePress screens, here are the highlights:
Completely new “Edit” screen for tables
- TablePress now has an even more spreadsheet-like user interface that makes working with large tables a breeze.
- Editing will be much faster: A right-click context menu allows for quick access to the table manipulation tools.
- A keyboard shortcut for saving changes will save a lot of scrolling.
Block editor support instead of having to deal with Shortcodes
- The new “TablePress table” block will give you a preview of the table when inserting it into a post or page, for a more intuitive embedding of tables. You won’t even have to remember the table ID, as a table search is included.
- And if you want, converting existing Shortcodes is just two clicks away.
Easier styling of tables with CSS variables
- You can now use CSS variables instead of complex CSS selectors for quicker and easier styling changes, in particular of table colors.
- The CSS selectors in the default CSS have been simplified for higher compatibility with more themes.
Importing tables is easier and more powerful than ever
- Simply drag&drop files to import them — even multiple files at once, even of different formats!
- No more need to choose the import file format: The auto detection will know if it’s a CSV, Excel, HTML, or JSON file.
- In addition, more file formats are recognized, like the LibreOffice ODS format.
- The Excel import is much more powerful: For example, clickable links and simple styling will be recognized and imported!
- The Replace/Append select box also has a live-search with autocomplete now, making finding the right table much faster.
New formula calculation engine
- TablePress now understands many more formulas, just as you know them from Excel!
- The formulas even support text strings now, which enables many new ways of automatically creating table content.
- When exporting tables, potentially dangerous formulas will be escaped, to increase protection against CSV injection attacks.
Premium versions
- Even more great features for you and your site’s visitors and priority email support are available with a Premium license plan of TablePress. Go check them out!
Behind the scenes
- Cleaned up and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation.
- Updated external libraries to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes.
- Automated code compatibility checks and build tools simplify chores for easier development.
- Support for PHP 8.1 and PHP 8.2.
- TablePress 2.0 requires WordPress 5.8.
Version 1.14
- Full compatibility with WordPress 5.8.
- Enhancement: Make behavior of bulk action selectors on the “All tables” screen more user-friendly.
- Enhancement: Apply and enforce more granular coding standards for better code maintainability.
- Enhancement: Allow import files with an .xlsm file extension, in addition to .xlsx files.
- Enhancement: Add more options (filter and action hooks) for external integration of custom code.
- Bugfix: Fix handling of the help box on the “Edit” screen when it’s opened again after closing it.
- Bugfix: Properly return modified table data when external code integrates into TablePress.
- Bugfix: Correctly localize dates in files names of downloaded export files.
- Bugfix: Fix typos in the code for math formula parsing that could lead to error messages in rare cases.
- Updated external libraries (DataTables, SimpleXLSX, Build tools).
- Some internal changes for better stability, translations, and documentation.
