Simon

DB Sync for Microsoft Excel is a powerful admin tool for syncing WordPress database tables with Excel files. Import <code>.xlsx</code> files, export tables, restore backups, and edit data live — all directly from the WP dashboard.
Perfect for site administrators, developers, and data-heavy use cases. No external services. No manual SQL. Just Excel and WordPress — in sync.
<h4>🔑 Key Features</h4>
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<li>Excel import – Upload <code>.xlsx</code> files to update existing tables. Preview and confirm before saving.</li>
<li>Excel export – Download one or multiple tables as Excel files, bundled in a single ZIP.</li>
<li>Live editing – Browse tables, edit cells inline, save changes instantly or cancel them.</li>
<li>Backups & restore – Automatically back up tables before imports. Restore or delete backups as needed.</li>
<li>Action logging – All data-changing operations are logged with timestamps.</li>
<li>Lightweight & secure – No external API connections. Everything runs locally inside WordPress.</li>
</ul>

DB Sync for Microsoft Excel


Makes it easy to sync Excel files with the database without messing with phpMyAdmin. Import, export, even edit live — all from the dashboard. Works smoothly.


Super useful plugin.

Sync database tables with Excel for easy import/export, backups, and live editing directly from the WordPress dashboard.

Jonas Hjalmarsson

Two different shortcodes; <code>[csvsearch]</code> enables search in csv-file uploaded to the Media-library. Enter the URL in the shortcode to add a searchbox that will find matches in that file with a jquery-ajax-call and presents each row with the format specified. <code>[filtersearch]</code> enabled a filter search box to a page that filter contents instant with jquery. You can set the element to filter within and other settings through the shortcode attributes.
<h4>[csvsearch]</h4>
Add csv file search functionallity to any post or widget with the shortcode 
 [csvsearch src=”https://path_to/content/file.csv”]
With this shortcode a search button will be generated and will by instant-ajax-search search through the csv-file in the src attribute and return the rows found matching the search input.
<a href="https://jonashjalmarsson.se/csv-and-html-search-filter-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check blog post at jonashjalmarsson.se for live samples.</a>
Settings:
There are some settings to control the search and output.
<ul>
<li>
src Enter the path to the file to search, the file is uploaded through the Media archive as with any other file. Find the URL and enter it in this attribute.
</li>
<li>
format How each line in the output will be formatted. 
Use {b} to render etc. All { and } will be replaced with < and >. 
Use {0}, {1} etc. to place the columns where you want in the output line. 
Default is: <code>{b}{0}{/b}, {1}, {2}{br/}</code> 
column1 (in bold), column2, column3 end with line-break.
</li>
<li>
searchtext Text that will be shown in search button. Default is in swedish: ‘Sök’.
</li>
<li>
charset Default charset is ‘iso-8859-1’. Can be set to any charset available through this attribute.
</li>
<li>
instantsearch Should instant search be enabled. I.e. dropdown results when entering text. Default is ‘false’.
</li>
<li>
instantformat Format for instant search. Default is ‘{0}’.
</li>
<li>
dataidformat Which column contains ID. Is used when click on dropdown. Default is ‘{0}’.
</li>
<li>
csv_separator Set column delimiter to use. , or ; is normally used depending on csv type. Default is ‘;’
</li>
<li>
nothing_found_message Set your own message when there are no hits in search. Default is ‘Nothing found when searching for: ‘
</li>
<li>
exact_match Set to true to only match exact matches, case sensitive. Default is ‘false’
</li>
<li>
placeholder_text Set a text to be seen as placeholder for the search. Will be replaced when a search is made. Default is none.
</li>
<li>
only_search_in_column Only search in one specific column. Enter 0 if you only want to search in first column. Remove this argument or add -1 to search in all columns. Default is -1
</li>
<li>
show_header_row Show first row as a header row by setting to true. Default is ‘false’
</li>
<li>
headerformat Combine with show_header_row to set format for header row. See format above to see more info.
</li>
<li>
ignore_default_header_style Set to true to ignore default style for header row. Default is ‘false’.
</li>
<li>
skip_file_check Skip the file check. Use when file check not working properly, for exampel when WP installed in sub directory.
</li>
<li>
set_focus_on_load Set to true to focus input element on page load, set false if not to focus. Default is ‘false’.
</li>
</ul>
Screenshot 1 shortcode: 
 [csvsearch format=”{0} | {1} | {3}{br/}” src=”/files/2016/07/sizedata.csv”/] 
Which means showing first, second and fourth column from the file with a separator between and line break at the end.
<h4>[filtersearch]</h4>
Add filter/search functionallity to any post or widget with the shortcode 
 [filtersearch]
With this shortcode a filter input will be generated and will instant filter the content in the page or post. You will be able to select if all page will be filtered or just some of the elements.
Settings:
There are some settings to control the filter.
<ul>
<li>
search_element Select within which html-element the content should be filtered. Should be entered as ‘element.classname’ (i.e. table.content or .content) in any form combining element, id and/or classname.
</li>
<li>
show_header_in_table Set to true if the first row in table is a title and always should be visible. Only affects when filtering tables.
</li>
<li>
text Replace the standard text placed in front of search box.
</li>
<li>
clear_icon_class Class to use to show ‘clear’-icon. Default is ‘delete-icon’.
</li>
<li>
clear_text Text to show in the clear button, useful instead of icon. Default is empty.
</li>
<li>
set_focus_on_load Set to true to focus input element on page load, set false if not to focus. Default is ‘true’.
</li>
</ul>
Screenshot 2 shortcode: 
 [filtersearch text=”Sök hämtningsdag för din ort” search_element=”table” show_header_in_table=”false”]

HTML filter and csv-file search

Easy way to enable jquery HTML filter or a CSV-file-search to a webpage. Use the shortcodes [csvsearch] and [filtersearch] to enable.

DB Sync for Microsoft Excel vs HTML filter and csv-file search