TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy

Description

Boost your website with feature-rich tables that your visitors will love!

TablePress is the most popular and highest-rated WordPress table plugin.

• Easily create, edit, and manage beautiful and modern data tables, no matter if small or large!
• Add live sorting, pagination, searching, and more interactivity for your site’s visitors!
• Use any type of data, insert images, links, and even math formulas!
• Import and export tables from/to Excel, CSV, HTML, and JSON files or URLs.
• Embed tables into posts, pages, or other site areas using the block editor or Shortcodes.
• All with no coding knowledge needed!

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 tablepress.org for more information, take a look at example tables, or try TablePress on a free test site. For latest news, follow @TablePress on Twitter/X or subscribe to the TablePress Newsletter.

How to use TablePress

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 or use Shortcodes with common page builders.

Beginner-friendly step-by-step tutorials, guides, and how-tos show how to achieve common and popular tasks with TablePress.
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!

Screenshots

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

• TablePress table Embed a TablePress table.

Installation

The easiest way to install TablePress is via your WordPress Dashboard:

1. Go to the “Plugins” screen, click “Add New”, and search for “TablePress” in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
2. Click “Install Now” and after that’s complete, click “Activate”.
3. Create and manage tables by going to the “TablePress” screen in the admin menu.
4. To insert a table into a post or page, add a “TablePress table” block in the block editor and select the desired table or use Shortcodes with common page builders.

Manual installation works just as for other WordPress plugins:

1. Download the TablePress ZIP file and extract it on your computer.
2. Move the folder “tablepress” to the “wp-content/plugins/” directory of your WordPress installation, e.g. via FTP.
3. Activate “TablePress” on the “Plugins” screen of your WordPress Dashboard.
4. Create and manage tables by going to the “TablePress” screen in the admin menu.
5. To insert a table into a post or page, add a “TablePress table” block in the block editor and select the desired table or use Shortcodes with common page builders.

FAQ

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 TablePress website.

Support?

Premium Support

Users with an active 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 6.0 or higher, while the latest version of WordPress is always recommended. In addition, the server must be running PHP 7.2 or newer.

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 www.ads-software.com account and start translating.

Development

You can follow the development of TablePress more closely in its official GitHub repository.

Where do I report security issues?

Please report security issues and bugs found in the source code of TablePress through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the TablePress developer.

Where can I get more information?

Visit the plugin website at tablepress.org for the latest news on TablePress, follow @TablePress on Twitter/X, or subscribe to the TablePress Newsletter.

Reviews

Very useful, easy too use, great support

horst627 September 11, 2024

I used the plugin from the very beginning for my Travelblog and it helped me creating easy tables without any CSS knowledge. Tobias is very supportive and overall the plugin is just great and easy to use!

Very good extension, practical and functional.

sernaterki77 September 11, 2024

I appreciate the ease of creating effective tables in a page or WordPress article. I recommend it

Charging for responsiveness?

cigiloviccom September 10, 2024

Update: Thank you Tobias for letting me know that I can still use horizontal scrolling, I have updated my review, I strongly believe TablePress is the best out there and I appreciate you keep esential features for small website owners who are struggling with Google updates. Thanks! My First Review: I heavily work with product comparison charts, tables as well as many informative tables. I used to use strict HTML with responsive CSS added. However, since these tables had grown so big in numbers, it was really difficult to manage and modify them. I switched to TablePress and managed to import all my tables using HTML markup. It took a couple of minutes to import and add a shortcode into my pages. With the excellent extensions, you can even paginate tables and enable search which is crazy!!! More importantly, it’s all free and Tobias is always up for helping us. Definitely deserves donations and all support! Many thanks Tobias! Osman

No added value in the Lite version – costs lifetime

R. R. Kendlbacher September 10, 2024 1 reply

By and large, I agree with the critical comments on the TablePress plugin. Why do you need a plugin if most of it has to be implemented with CSS? The limitations in the Lite version are so extensive that it is not practical to use it, the example of color has already been mentioned. The price of the premium version, on the other hand, does not justify the range of functions, especially with this really poor documentation. The intrusive advertising constantly rubs the user’s nose in this feeling of frustration at the limitations. Two separate versions would be better because they would be less frustrating. Then you delete faster. TablePress is a good example of a bait-and-switch offer. Overall, this is a bad development for WordPress. People are now tired of these offers – they don’t deliver what they promise, you have to familiarize yourself with them only to realize that the effort doesn’t justify the result, you lose time. The pricing at TablePress is simply outrageous for small non-profit projects without an agency connect I hope I find something better, otherwise I’ll end up programming my own tables. I use Avada, I wanted to save myself extensive templates. I’m faster with Avada’s on-board tools, TablePress Lite is a shot from the back to the chest with Avada.

Simple but powerful

coriolis_too September 10, 2024

If you need to display tabular data, this plugin is simple enough to setup in a few minutes but you can enhance your output and display as you need. Great tool, thanks

Tobias logged into my site, which uses the free version of Tablepress, and solve

jenesistem September 5, 2024

【Tobias logged into my site, which uses the free version of Tablepress, and solved the problem.】I updated my woocommerce site to php8, and an error message appeared on the page with the tablepress shortcode. I emailed Tobias directly and asked for advice, and he helped me log in to the site and resolve the error. I did not purchase the paid version. Tobias is a great guy who provides solid support to free version users. The free version of Tablepress is a very good plugin.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

Changes in recent versions are shown below. For earlier changes, please see the changelog history.

Version 2.4.2 (September 10, 2024)

• Bugfix: The “TablePress table” block in the WordPress Block Editor will properly show the table preview again.
• Bugfix: Control elements like the Search again remain in place, when using the “Scroll” mode of the “Responsive Tables” feature module. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
• Bugfix: When the “Responsive Tables” feature module’s “Flip” is used, a “Fixed Header” row will be hidden. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
• Cleaned up and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation.

Version 2.4.1 (August 13, 2024)

• Bugfix: The table width is correct again, when using the “Scroll” mode of the “Responsive Tables” feature module. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
• Bugfix: The “Responsive Tables” feature module’s “Stack” mode now properly handles tables with combined cells. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
• Bugfix: An edge case problem in the “Row Order” feature module’s multi-column sorting was fixed. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
• Bugfix: In the table import engine, compatibility issues with older versions of PHP were fixed.
• Enhancement: The settings of the “Server-side Processing” and the “Automatic Filtering” feature modules are now compatible. (TablePress Max only.)
• Cleaned up and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation.
• Several external code libraries and build tools have been updated to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes.

Version 2.4 (July 16, 2024)

New and improved features

• A new “Fuzzy Search” feature module allows the visitor to find similar and not just exact search matches. This is useful when e.g. searching for words with the same pronunciation but different spelling. (TablePress Max only.)
• The “Column Filter Dropdowns” feature module now allows specifying which columns should get a dropdown, and it’s possible to change their order! (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
• Similarly, the “Search Panes” feature module now allows specifying which columns should get a search pane. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
• The “Fixed Columns” feature module now also allows the visitor to scroll left and right by clicking arrow buttons (see below for more). (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
• The “Row Order” feature module now allows ordering a table by multiple columns at the same time! (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
• The “Server-side Processing” feature module can automatically refresh the shown data after a configured interval, so that the visitor will always see the latest data. (TablePress Max only.)
• The “Row Order” and “Server-side Processing” feature modules now sort non-numeric columns “naturally” and case-insensitive. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
• The “REST API” feature module now supports pagination and ordering request parameters and sends corresponding HTTP headers for easier integration. (TablePress Max only.)

The “Responsive Tables” and “Fixed Columns” premium modules offer more possibilities

• The “Scroll” mode’s arrow buttons now stick to the top of the page, making them easier to use in long tables.
• In addition, they will now only be shown if a table actually needs horizontal scrolling!
• They also scroll the table in the expected direction now.
• And even better: These scroll arrow buttons are now also available when using the “Fixed Columns” feature module!
• When using the “Scroll” mode, the table name, description, and control elements like the Search now remain in place.
• In the “Flip” mode, the sorting arrows are now properly rotated.
• The “Stack” no longer conflicts with the “Fixed Columns” feature.
• The Safari browser on iOS will no longer unexpectedly change font sizes.

Miscellaneous changes

• TablePress warns that certain activated but retired TablePress Extensions will stop working with TablePress 3.0, later this year.
• TablePress actively prevents conflicts with overwritten menu items in the dashboard’s admin menu.
• The user interface experience on the “Edit” screen was improved.
• The size of “Custom CSS” code will be reduced even further, if the code has comments.
• The “Automatic Table Export” feature module now properly detects automatic periodic table imports. (TablePress Max only.)
• The “Automatic Periodic Table Import” feature module’s configuration screen now has better spacing. (TablePress Max only.)
• The “Server-side Processing” feature module checks for potential conflicts with incompatible features. (TablePress Max only.)

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.

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!