Better Navigation of Tables in WordPress Control Panel

  • Resolved Lukosius

    (@lukosius)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    Hi there,

    Firstly I must thank you for Tablepress. It is a fantastic plugin and I wouldn’t be able to complete some of my websites without it.

    I am updating a website for a sporting organisation and the website will be very stats-based, hence my need for tables. By the time I finish there will be somewhere between 700 and 800 tables in use on this particular website.

    My question is in regards to viewing the tables in the WordPress Control Panel. As it is right now, when I click on ‘Tablepress’ it just lists all the tables by default (ID) order.

    Of course when I have 100’s and 100’s of them, this will be a very painful exercise.

    Is there any way the tables can be grouped in subfolders (or similar) to enable easier navigation in the control panel? A little bit like some of the ‘Tree Page View’ plugins you have for the pages themselves.

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  • Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

    Unfortunately, I don’t think that the List of Tables will change in the near future. The reason for that is that TablePress is using the default list functionality that WordPress uses here, to be as close to the native user interface as possible.

    However, maybe one workaround for you might be to use a “pseudo-category” based on the table ID: As table IDs don’t have to be numbers, but can be strings (with the letters a-z, A-Z, the number 0-9, and the hyphen - and underscore _ allowed), you could add a “categorizing prefix” to your table IDs, to get tables like

    roster-2011
roster-2012
roster-2013
stats-2011
stats-2012
stats-2013
standings-2011
standings-2012
standings-2013

    or similar.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Lukosius

    (@lukosius)

    Ok, that makes sense.

    I had already started grouping ID numbers in a similar way, but was unaware I could use strings instead of numbers, which may work better.

    Thank you.

    Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    no problem, you are very welcome! ?? Good to hear that this helped!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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