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Greg Schaub

Built from the ground up based upon the latest technology and designed to support WordPress’ vision for the platform’s 
future, Dynamic Tables is a new WordPress block plugin to create and manage information that is best organized 
as a table. The block is designed to be easily configured and highly responsive.
Dynamic Tables was created on a solid technical framework with the objective of delivering a complete end-to-end 
block solution for creating beautiful tables that are easy to maintain. Additionally, this framework will provide a 
springboard to rapidly build upon this foundation to provide additional features. Some capabilities on the 
roadmap include: 
* Support for templates and cloning. Note that this support is not currently available. It is the first roadmap item. 
* Support for front end interactivity to sort and filter tables 
* Integrating Dynamic Tables with WordPress search 
* Allowing for specific content types and formats for all rows in a column (e.g, images, links, buttons, numeric formats, etc.) without the need to format each cell 
* Importing and exporting table data in common formats (e.g., csv, xlsx) 
* Enhanced responsive formatting for mobile devices 
* Front end editing
This is just a sample of the roadmap, some of which will be included in this free community edition while others will be available in a future premium version of Dynamic Tables.
<h3>Formatting Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Column & Row Actions
<ul>
<li>“Show table borders” creates a spreadsheet metaphore for intuitive column and row formatting. Toggle the boarders off when formats are set</li>
<li>Menu options to add or delete columns and rows</li>
<li>Fine grain control of column widths including support for:</li>
<li>Proportional or fix widths</li>
<li>Minimum and maximum widths so that text wraps appropriately, automatically adjusting row height</li>
<li>Supports both fixed (e.g., pixel) and inferred (e.g., character) sizing units</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Header
<ul>
<li>Optionally allow the first row to be a header</li>
<li>Optionally freeze headers with a vertical scrollbar</li>
<li>Support styling for the header row including borders and text alignment independently from table body rows</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Body Rows
<ul>
<li>Optionally display table grid licenses</li>
<li>Optionally display banded rows with styling for the band and text color</li>
<li>Allow for a horizontal scroll if table contents exceed the page width</li>
<li>Support styling for all body rows including borders and text alignment</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>All color styling comes pre-loaded with the current theme colors with support for custom colors as well</li>
<li>Optionally display or hide table title</li>
</ul>
<h3>Love You Inner Geek!</h3>
This information will be appealing to our techie friends, soothing their passion for embracing the technology. Dynamic Blocks has an 
architecture that is somewhat unique to the world of Gutenberg development in that the table definition and content are stored in 
custom WordPress database tables because we didn’t believe it structurally lent itself well to the Post data metaphore. These are 
the primary building blocks: 
* Table data and definitions are abstracted through a block entity types 
* Entities natively call RESTful api’s 
* There is an underlying WordPress REST API service that supports the loading and saving of table data 
* The service interacts with a highly abstracted SQL layer which leverages WordPress WPDB 
* The tables themselves leverage the newer CSS grid framework 
 * Much of the flexibility is derived from grid functinality that has been incorporated into mainstream web browsers as recently as 2024 
 * This framework provides responsiveness that doesn’t “break” table structure. Misalighed rows and columns, unexpected wrapping, and otherwise indecipherable tables have been beaten down. 
* The API architecture can theoretically support data stored in external files or web services. We’re considering these capabilities in our roadmap.

Dynamic Tables

Create highly responsive custom table blocks that are easily configured.

Tobias Bäthge

Boost your website with feature-rich tables that your visitors will love!
TablePress is the most popular and highest-rated WordPress table plugin.
<ul>
<li>Easily create, edit, and manage beautiful and modern data tables, no matter if small or large!</li>
<li>Add live sorting, pagination, searching, and more interactivity for your site’s visitors!</li>
<li>Use any type of data, insert images, links, and even math formulas!</li>
<li>Import and export tables from/to Excel, CSV, HTML, and JSON files or URLs.</li>
<li>Embed tables into posts, pages, or other site areas using the block editor, an Elementor widget, or Shortcodes.</li>
<li>All with no coding knowledge needed!</li>
</ul>
Even more great features for you and your site’s visitors and priority email support are available with a Premium license plan of TablePress. <a href="https://tablepress.org/premium/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=textlink&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Go check them out!</a>
<h4>More information</h4>
Visit <a href="https://tablepress.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">tablepress.org</a> for more information, take a look at <a href="https://tablepress.org/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">example tables</a>, or <a href="https://tablepress.org/demo/#try" rel="nofollow ugc">try TablePress on a free test site</a>. For latest news, <a href="https://twitter.com/TablePress" rel="nofollow ugc">follow @TablePress</a> on Twitter/X or subscribe to the <a href="https://tablepress.org/#newsletter" rel="nofollow ugc">TablePress Newsletter</a>.
<h3>How to use TablePress</h3>
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 or a widget in the Elementor page builder and select the desired table or use Shortcodes with other page builders.
Beginner-friendly step-by-step <a href="https://tablepress.org/tutorials/" rel="nofollow ugc">tutorials, guides, and how-tos</a> show how to achieve common and popular tasks with TablePress. 
Examples for common styling changes via “Custom CSS” code can be found on the <a href="https://tablepress.org/faq/" rel="nofollow ugc">TablePress FAQ page</a>. 
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. <a href="https://tablepress.org/premium/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=textlink&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Go check them out!</a>

TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy


Ich nutze das Plugin nun schon eine ganze Weil und bin immer wieder begeistert, wie einfach man damit Tabellen erstellen und einbetten kann. Dazu kommt, dass der Autor immer wieder neue Funktionen einbaut und das Plugin weiterhin kostenfrei bleibt.



I've been using the plugin for a while now and I'm still amazed at how easy it is to create and embed tables. In addition, the author keeps adding new features while the plugin remains free.






Best Plugin when it comes to tables


Working with TablePress has made it easier to manage data especially when working with hundreds of cells.



No way should one ever work with "plain HTML tables" again! :-)


Intuitive!


Developer solved all my problems, created individual code for my needs and explained everything thoroughly. Great job!


GREAT SUPPORT!!


TablePress 3.0 removed backward compatibility with free extensions. Now you need to use paid version in order for things to work. Someone skilled should fork this. 


Backward compatibility removed in favor of paid version

Embed beautiful, accessible, and interactive tables into your WordPress website’s posts and pages, without having to write code!

Dynamic Tables vs TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy