Any way to display a random table?

Hi Carl,

thanks for your question!

Unfortunately, I don’t have a readily usable solution for that, but you can write a quick custom wrapper for the regular [table] Shortcode:

function tablepress_random_table_shortcode( $attributes ) {
	$table_ids = explode( ',', $attributes['from'] );
	$attributes['id'] = $table_ids[ array_rand( $table_ids ) ];
	unset( $attributes['from'] );
	return tablepress_get_table( $attributes );
}
if ( ! is_admin() ) {
	add_shortcode( 'random-table', 'tablepress_random_table_shortcode' );
}

Just paste that into your theme’s “functions.php” or into a small new plugin file.
After that, you can use a Shortcode like

[random-table from="1,4,6,7,9" /]

to show a random table from the set of the tables with the IDs 1, 4, 6, 7, and 9.

Regards,
Tobias

That totally worked! Thank you SOOOOO much Tobias for taking the time to write that. Above and beyond what I had hoped for. I was pulling my hair out for hours trying to figure out a way to do it. I have sent a donation.

I really appreciate it – you rock!!

Carl

Resolved.

Hi,

no problem, you are very welcome! ?? Good to hear that this helped!
And thanks for the donation, I really appreciate it!

Best wishes,
Tobias