Embed CloudTables directly in WordPress

CloudTables provides the tools needed to let you create complex database applications in moment and then embed them directly into your own site to provide your users with a seamless design. This plug-in is provided to make the embedding of CloudTables into a WordPress site just the matter of a few clicks!

Use

Block Editor

If you use WordPress’ block editor, you will find a ‘CloudTables’ option in the ‘Layout’ section. Select that for where you wish the CloudTable to appear. You will see the CloudTables logo in the block and in the block inspector a dropdown option list from which you can select the data set you wish to display at that point.

Short code

For those that prefer to use a short code, please use: [cloudtable id="..."] where the id attribute is the id of the data set you wish to embed. This can be found on the ‘Data’ tab of your data set in the CloudTables application.

From your WordPress dashboard

1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’.
2. Search for ‘CloudTables’ and install.

From WordPress.org

1. Download the CloudTables plugin for WordPress.
2. Upload the ‘cloudtables’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favourite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…).

= Post-install

1. Activate CloudTables from your Plugins page.
2. In ‘Settings > CloudTables’ enter the details to connect to your CloudTables server see:
   • Hosted (cloudtables.com) documentation
   • Self-hosted documentation

1.3.0 – 14 November 2022

• Add Ajax access request option to allow for WordPress caching plug-ins which could store the access token and serve to multiple people.
• Auto detect common caching plug-ins.

1.2.0 – 18 August 2022

• Add support for self-hosted CloudTables installs
• Conditions option in block editor

1.1.0 – 19 May 2022

• Add support for conditions in short tag

1.0.0 – 22 May 2020

• Initial release