How To Add Tables To WordPress Posts And Pages

Learn how to easily create and insert tables into your WordPress posts and pages with no coding skills required …

How To Insert Tables Into Pages And Posts In WordPress

The ability to easily add tables to your website can be really handy. Tables are great for sorting and presenting data to people in a format that can make your information easier to understand.

The WordPress visual editor offers many features, but there are some things that it won’t do by default, such as giving you the option to create tables without having to learn code.

Although you can create tables manually in WordPress if you have knowledge of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), for many non-technical WordPress users, this is not a feasible option.

Fortunately, WordPress plugins give users almost unlimited expansion capabilities, and adding tables to your content with the click of a mouse is no exception.

In this tutorial you will learn how to easily create and insert tables into your site’s pages without requiring knowledge of HTML or CSS or coding skills.

Adding Tables In WordPress

To create and add tables to your WordPress posts or pages without touching code, we’ll use a FREE plugin called TablePress.

TablePress – WP Plugin

How To Insert Tables Into WordPress Posts And Pages Easily Without Touching Code

TablePress is a powerful and time-saving WordPress plugin for creating, editing and managing tables in WordPress.

TablePress doesn’t require you to have any knowledge or skills coding HTML, CSS, etc. The plugin provides a simple user interface that lets you easily edit your table data. You can add any type of data, even formulas to your tables.

An additional JavaScript library can be used to add features like pagination, sorting, filtering, and more for your site visitors. You can easily insert tables into your content using shortcodes and display tables inside text widgets.

You can also import and export tables from/to CSV files (e.g. from Excel), HTML files, and JSON formats.

This plugin was developed by Tobias Bäthge and is licensed as Free Software under GNU General Public License 2 (GPL 2).

How To Use TablePress Plugin For WP – Tutorial

To create and manage tables in WordPress, install and activate the TablePress plugin.

You can download the plugin here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress

Or install it directly from your own WordPress Dashboard …

How To Easily Add Tables Into WordPress Posts And Pages Without Programming Skills

Once the plugin has been installed and activated, a new menu item will be added to your WP admin menu called TablePress

Creating And Inserting Tables  In WordPress

Click on TablePress and choose Plugin Options from the list of submenus …

How To Create And Add Tables To WordPress Easily

The “Plugin Options” page controls your plugin styling and display settings …

How To Create And Insert Tables Into Your Content Easily Without Touching Code

For example, in the “User Options” section, you can change where the TablePress menu entry appears on your WP admin menu.

By default, the menu item displays around the middle of your menu. If you plan to use this plugin often, then you can easily position the menu item near the top of the admin menu by selecting “Top-level (middle)” in the User Options > Admin menu entry dropdown menu …

How To Insert Tables Into Pages And Posts In WordPress

The TablePress menu entry will now appear closer to the top section of the menu …

How To Add Tables In WordPress Content

You can also specify other plugin options in the “Plugin Options” screen, such as table formatting styles, default language, etc. Leave all default options as they are if you don’t need to change things in this area.

With TablePress, you create edit and format your tables within the plugin area. Tables are then placed via a shortcode into your pages and posts. The table will then display or update after your post or page is published or updated.

The great thing about working directly from the plugin is that you can easily modify the information inside your tables without having to open any of your posts and pages. The plugin then updates all of your table data in all locations where the table has been added to your content.

To create a new table select TablePress > Add New Table

How To Create And Insert Tables Into Posts And Pages In WordPress

Type in a name, a description (optional), and the number of rows and columns you want for the new table into the “Add New Table” form in the Add New tab, then click on the Add Table button to create your new table. You can change the name, description and size of your tables at anytime…

How To Add Tables In WordPress Content

Once the new table has been created, it will be listed in the “All Tables” list and be assigned a unique Shortcode ID …

Creating And Inserting Tables Into Pages And Posts With WordPress

The TablePress shortcode allows you to easily add tables anywhere inside a post or page simply by inserting or copying and pasting the shortcode wherever you want your tables to display …

How To Create And Add Tables Into WordPress Posts And Pages

Once you have created a new table, adding content to it is very easy.

In the “Table Content” section, just click in the cell and type or paste your content. You can add text, images and HTML formatting to your content (e.g. add bold text, insert links, etc …)

How To Easily Create And Add Tables To Your Content

After your new table has been created, displays additional options for configuring your table.

For example, in the “Table Options” section you can specify the first row of your table to be the table header and the last row of the table to be the table footer, display alternate background colours on consecutive rows, highlight rows when a visitor hovers their mouse over the table, show the table name and description above or below the table, and more …

How To Create And Add Tables To WordPress

You can also modify your table information after it has been created in the “Table Manipulation” area. You can perform various table manipulations, such as inserting links or images, hiding, showing, inserting, deleting and cloning selected rows and columns, adding new columns and rows, combining cells, etc …

How To Easily Add Tables Into WordPress Pages And Posts

You can also enable JavaScript library features in your tables, such as allowing visitors to sort, filter and search your table content, change the number of table rows displayed on your site (and let visitors specify the number of rows displayed), display table information, etc …

How To Easily Insert Tables Into WordPress Pages And Posts Without Coding Skills

You can see how your table looks anytime, by clicking on the Preview button …

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A preview window will open in your screen allowing you to preview your table. Certain features like JavaScript options are disabled in preview mode, but will display once your table is published …

How To Insert Tables Into Your Content In WordPress

Click the Save Changes button when finished to save your new table data …

How To Create And Insert Tables Into Your Content Easily Without Programming Skills

After you have created one or more tables, you can view a list of all your tables by choosing TablePress > All Tables

How To Create And Add Tables In WordPress Pages And Posts

A list of all your tables will be displayed in this area. You can edit, see shortcodes, copy, export, delete and preview tables …

How To Create And Add Tables To WordPress Posts And Pages

Using The TablePress Shortcode

You embed tables into your pages and blog posts with the TablePress shortcode.

Get the shortcode for your tables by clicking on the Show Shortcode menu item below your table title to get the shortcode …

How To Add Tables In Posts And Pages In WordPress

The plugin also adds a shortcode menu icon to your WordPress content editor. This allows you to easily insert tables into your posts and pages while working on your content.

Place your cursor where you want the table to show then click the TablePress menu icon …

How To Create And Insert Tables Into Posts And Pages With WordPress

TablePress Menu Icon In WordPress Visual Editor Screen

Note: You can also add a table when working in the “Text” area of the WP editor …

How To Add Tables In Your Content Easily With No Coding Skills Required

TablePress Menu Icon In WordPress HTML Editor Screen

Clicking on the menu icon opens a window containing a list of your existing tables.

Select the table you want to add to the post or page and click Insert Shortcode

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Your TablePress shortcode will be added to your content …

How To Insert Tables Into Your Content In WordPress

Your table and table contents will display as soon as you publish your post or page …

Creating And Adding Tables In WordPress Posts And Pages

As stated earlier, one of the great things about this plugin is that you can change things after publishing the table without having to open your post or page. Tweak the content in the plugin area, then save your new table settings and refresh your content to view the updated content.

Another great time-saving feature of this plugin, is that if you plan to keep adding data to an existing table, you can simply export your current table, then add new information, make changes, etc. You can then re-import your exported file with the news changes and your table content will be automatically updated throughout your site.

To export an existing table, select TablePress > Export a Table in the main menu …

How To Create And Add Tables In Posts And Pages With WordPress

In the “Export Tables” section, choose the table(s) to export (you can select multiple tables by holding down the “Ctrl” key), then select the Export Format you want(e.g. CSV) and any other export options you’d like to make and click on the Export Table button to download the file to your hard drive …

Inserting Tables  In WordPress

After making changes and resaving the table file, you can then easily reimport your table into WordPress.

To import a table into WordPress from your hard drive, go to your menu and choose TablePress > Import a Table

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TablePress can import tables from existing data, such as CSV file data, from a spreadsheet application, an HTML file, or its own format. You can also import existing tables from the WP-Table Reloaded plugin

To import a table, select and enter the source in the “Import Tables” area. You can import multiple tables from a ZIP file and select whether to import a table as a new table or to replace an existing table.

Inserting Tables Into Posts And Pages With WordPress

For more information about TablePress, including where to access the plugin documentation for additional features, get technical support for the plugin, contact the plugin developer, etc., click on the “About Tab” in the plugin admin section, or select TablePress > About TablePress

Adding Tables In Posts And Pages In WordPress

As you can see, TablePress is quite a powerful and feature-rich free plugin will help you easily create and add tables into your site content.

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