If you are a WordPress user, you would probably know how tough it is to implement a table on WordPress, particularly exporting a table from Excel to your post, will be probably the toughest job that you will encounter that day. I have tried to add a table using Excel, Word, Live Writer and even through my Open Office products, but no use WordPress table formatting can make you go crazy if you are doing it manually.
Problems with table on WordPress
- Not enough support for Table Formatting.
- The alignment of the table will differ when pasted on WordPress.
- The table formatting is not allowed, you can have a single color table, but using tables with alternate colors on row, will take a lot of manual work to do.
- Tables width and column cannot be resized on WordPress, unless you edit the HTML code of the post, which is again so unfriendly.
Solution for better WordPress Table
The above mentioned problems can be solved by using a plugin called WordPress Table Reloaded, This plugin is one amongst the few plugins that can really save you from lot of manual work. The plugins can import tables from CSV or any other format and can convert them into a nice and stylish Javascript enabled table. Click to see a demo of WordPress Table Reloaded.
Wordpress Table Functions
Table Display Options
You can import a table from any format to this plugin
How to add the formatted table to post
After creating the table, inserting it into the post is very easy, Use the following syntax for inserting the table on the given location.
[table "<ID>" not found /]
Replace ID with the actual ID of the table, you can see them in the list table option as shown below.
List of Tables in Wp - Table Reloaded Plugin
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Very nifty for sites that make heavy use of tables. I use tables but they are not too complicated, but I will bookmark this one. Can the shortcode be used in the sidebar widget? I like to format images and text using tables and those can get complicated, often including links.
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Thanks mate, If you need to display posts in sidebar with images there are WordPress plugins to do that, But if you don’t prefer to use plugins, you can very well use the Php code in sidebar.php, there is no requirement of these tables on sidebar, Do let me know if you need the code, I will mail you
Cheers.
Thanks you so much for the post bro! i’ll try it out soon! With my current plugin i had a lot of problems creating tables! today also face a big problem!
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Sure Pubudu, Glad to have helped you
Glad to know about the plugin. Will try it soon with a post in my blog.
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Me too faced the Table issue in WP, will check this.
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Well I never used tables before but still m gonna Bookmark this page in case if might use.
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Sure mate, Glad to help you , Tables will be necessary in some day or the other, that time give a shot to this plugin, very much useful. Cheers. If you are interested in getting our feeds , subscribe to us at http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bytechip
Thanks for sharing this plugin with us
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I think I heard this plug-in name before too, but never tested it, it looks great! Downloaded this plugin, will try it soon.
I used to do it via hard-coded HTML! Now I have a plugin that will make it easier for me. Thanks
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The HTML tables are really time consuming mate, even if you get the code from front-page still the alignment sucks big time.
I’m using Windows love writer which let me create plugin from its option.. Using this plugin on my wordpress tutorial blog..
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You can use Akismet, Its a free plugin. Here is the link: http://akismet.com/
Love your table… thank you. Is there a way to format the text that I place in the table? … I’d like to do possibly some color and bold type if possible with in the table.
Thanks again
Hey you got to insert custom HTML Codes, along with the data, that will format the entries in table, If you want all the data to be formatted, edit the .CSS file in the plugin folder, Let me know if you need further help on this . Thanks for visiting ByteChip.com
This plugin my be what I was looking for. I have been looking around for a wordpress plug in that will make it easy to create or upload tables in a post. thanks
Good that the post was useful to you Sir. Thanks for visiting ByteChip.
Thanks for the plugin. I needed one plugin for my site. Thanks