Table plugin for wordpress – Websimon Tables
Websimon Tables is a wordpress plugin to create and design tables. You can choose between 10 readymade skins or design your own custom html table design.
>>>Download Websimon Tables from wordpress.org
Latest update: 2013-01-01, Version 1.3.3
Read blog post about version 1.3.3 (2013-01-02)
Create and design tables in wordpress
The reasons to why I created websimon tables are many but the most important one is that I wanted a fast way to create and manage good looking tables on my wordpress sites. There are som really good and advanced table plugins out there but I haven´t found any that has the design abilitys I wanted. In this plugin you will find 10 readymade skins (see examples below) and the functionality to create your unique custom design for each of your tables. Well, that is what this table plugin does.
Table examples
A kind of grey table with "download button" pics
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Go to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Go to |
| One | Two | Three | Four |  |
| One | Two | Three | Four | |
| One | Two | Three | Four | |
| One | Two | Three | Four | |
A financial looking table
| 1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter |
|---|---|
| 1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter |
| Very good | Investing |
| Good marketing | Bad Marketing |
A red table with custom width
| Love | Hate |
|---|---|
| Roses | Anger |
| Kindness | War |
A dark blue table with lots of information imported via .csv
| Name | websimon tables | information | time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | websimon tables | information | time |
| Christin | 80 | 1 | 120 |
| Ben | 79 | 2 | 130 |
| James | 78 | 3 | 140 |
| Olivia | 77 | 4 | 150 |
| Simon | 76 | 5 | 160 |
| Sofia | 75 | 6 | 170 |
| John | 74 | 7 | 180 |
| Barack | 73 | 8 | 190 |
| George | 72 | 9 | 200 |
| Andrew | 71 | 10 | 210 |
| Rebecca | 70 | 11 | 220 |
| Lady Gaga | 69 | 12 | 230 |
| Beyonce | 68 | 13 | 240 |
| Bruce | 67 | 14 | 250 |
| Usain Bolt | 66 | 15 | 260 |
| Tim | 65 | 16 | 270 |
| Jessica | 64 | 17 | 280 |
| Jennie | 63 | 18 | 290 |
Screenshots of websimon tables admin pages
 Edit the table content (click for larger pic) |
 Edit the basic settings (click for larger pic) |
 Edit the custom design (click for larger pic) |
Features
- Create and manage tables and css from your wordpress admin pages.
- Create as many tables as you want to.
- Import and Export via .csv
- Shortcode to display tables in posts or pages.
- php Script to display tables directly from your code.
- Font size header and body.
- Line height header and body
- Horizontal and vertical text-align
- fixed width or 100%
- Custom cell padding
- Custom column width
- 10 Readymade skins.
- A custom design skin where you can design your table exactly as you want to.
Installation
- Upload the entire websimon tables folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
- You will find the admin page in "tools"
FaQ - Ask a question
Q: Is it possible with shortcodes inside of the table?
A: Currently there are no support for shortcodes inside of a table. In version 1.3.3
Q: How do you insert the table into a page?
A: You insert the table into your page by using the shortcode available in the plugins adminpages. The shortcode can look like this: [ws_table id="1"]. Just paste this code directly in the text editor for posts or pages.
Q: How do I put a textlink in my table?
A: To add a link in the table content just use html code to display the link: <a href="link-destination" alt="my link">Link Text</a>.
Q: If I want to use text or an image in the table, how do I edit to add a hyperlink to either?
A: To add a picture in the table content just use html code to display the image: <img width="100px" src="image-source.jpg" />. To use the image as an link use <a href="link-destination"><img width="100px" src="image-source.jpg" /></a>.
Q: How do I duplicate/copy a table?
A: This feature will be added to the next update. In version 1.02
Q: How do I insert or move Columns/Rows in a table?
A: Right now it is hard work to do that In version 1.1.1
(Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V) I´ll add a function for that in an update later this spring.
Q: Is it possible to change the table name?
A: No not yet. I´m planning to make an update for that in coming releases! In version 1.1.1
Q: Is it possible to sort table content based on for example points or alphabetically?
A: No not yet. I´m planning to make an update for that in coming releases!
Q: Is there a rowspan/colspan functionality?
A: No not yet. I´m planning to make an update for that in coming releases!
Q: Is it possible to change the order of det rows?
A: Yes but only by changing the content in the table cells, I´ll add a function for that in an update later this spring. In version 1.1.1
Changelog
- 2012-04-20 Version 1.3.2 is released with
- Bugfix with link to table css
- 2012-04-13 Version 1.3.1 is released with
- Same as 1.1.2 and 1.1.1 (which was a major update) but this update had to be done so that the update notification is sent out to all users.
- 2012-04-12 Version 1.1.2 is released with
- Bugfix - Fixes issue with some files and pictures not including correctly.
- 2012-04-11 Version 1.1.1 is released with
- New Feature - Its now possible to change the table name.
- New Feature - You can now disable the table header.
- New Feature - Its now possible to empty a tables content without changing the structure and design.
- New Feature - You can move rows up and down.
- New Feature - You can move columns left and right
- New Feature - You can add rows and columns inside of a table
- New Feature - You can delete rows and columns inside of a table
- New Feature - Added some more textfields with the shortcodes for faster access.
- New Feature - There is now an unique css class for each row if you want to design each row separately.
- Bugfix - Fixed the issue that made the colorpicker not working.
- 2012-02-18 Version 1.02 is released with:
- New Feature - You are now able to copy a table
- New feature - You are now able to add a picture in the table headline/table footer
- Bugfix - Fixed custom column width on custom skin
- 2012-01-19 Version 1.01 is released with:
- Small fixes with uninstall routines. Now the plugin table and the related options is deleted when plugin is deleted.
- Added som more save buttons when editing table content for tables with lots of information.
- 2011-12-30 Version 1.0 is released
In the future?
Hopefully you will find this free table plugin useful to create better webpages. If you want to encourage me to continue to develop this plugin you are most welcome to donate a few bucks (10$) to me via paypal. 
Looks great. Is there any chance you can add the ability to sort by column headings with a single click?
Thank you Mark, I´ll add that feature in my ”future table development list”. I will continue to work on this plugin and maybe I´ll add that type of ability in the future.
Thanks for this great WordPress Tables plugin.
Its proably the best WordPress Tables plugin. Or it will soon be if you
continue working and xpanding on it.
Why dont you charge 5 dollars for this or add a donate button
on your website. This just to ensure that you dont suddenly drop further development.
Hansi
Thanx Hansi! I´ve added a donate button on this page and in the plugins admin pages. I hope some people will donate a few bucks to encourage me to continue develop and update this table plugin
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Is there a way to make the first column also ‘table headlines’? I want the first column in each row to match the headlines at the top.
Thanks!
Hi Christina,
At the moment there are no automatic ways for you to make the first column of the table the same as the table headlines. The way to do it right now is to manually copy the headline text into the first column content. I´ll consider this to future updates.
Hi Simon, awesome plugin! Once a table is made how do you put make the words on the table hyperlinked to other pages in one’s site?
Thanks!
Hi Dave, you have to use html code (tag a) to link to your wordpress pages (see FaQ above). There are no similar way to link to pages that exists in the wordpress post text editor.
Thanks Simon, I got it working. Awesome plugin.
Thanx Simon this is \[ Awesome plugin ]/
Please add option to hide table headlines same footer option.
Best Regards
Thank you for this great plugin, but unfortunately it does not work with me! The shotcode field is always empty and nothing appears to me but the PHP code, which is
Note that I filled the table fields, and did everything required to create a table, but still no shortcode appears to me.
I would appreciate any help in this regard.
Thank you
I think I got it. Adding special characters to the table name will cause this problem. I made a new table with just the alphabet characters, and it worked great. Thank you.
Hi, thanks for input, I´ll check it out and see if I can create tables with special chars in the name
Great plugin! Is it possible to add shortcode to the fields so that you can combine cells in a row – something like #colspan# ?
Hi Jess, currently there are no colspan or rowspan functionality in this plugin. There has been som questions about that and I´ll ceirtenly consider adding that functionality in the future.
Has anyone seen issues with table styles not showing in IE 9?
SOLVED … There was a conflict with another table plugin. Works great now!
Very nice plugin. The readymade skins are very useful. I’ll be waiting for colspan and rowspan functionality
You’re rock, Simon!
Thank you, I will look into rowspan/colspan in the future.
Love the plugin. A donation is on the way.
Suggestions for new features:
• Sortable columns
• Ability to insert new rows in specific locations
I’m creating tables to track numerically-labeled data that is updated frequently. Having the ability to re-sort the data in descending values or to add a row in a specific location is critical. Otherwise, I have to manually create new tables every time the data is updated.
Hi, thanks for your suggestions, I will work on those kinds of features in the future
yes, you know i’ve been looking for something like this for a very long tyme, Now i dont have to snap my table from Microsoft-word anymore . Thanks 1 moretime
Great plugin, easy to use and plenty of styling options. Donation sent, worth the money.
Thanks alot, it encourages me to continue develop the plugin!
I cant get the rows?columns to show? worked at first install – now I cant get any lines or color. Heelp!
Hi Nate, Have you tried to update the plugin to the latest version, I hope that can help you.
Thanks for a great plugin Simon – I am going to use it to create feature boxes for my site. Row and col span would be fantastic – look forward to your updates with anticipation.
Cheers – Ian
nice plugin, but I do not see the borders, and the various styles … why?
It could be alot of different problems causing that problem. Almost impossible for me to guess without being able to check the website.
Nice work! I’d really love to have the ability to update row and column placement without copy/pasting. That’s the only feature I’m missing.
This will be added to future updates
Hi Simon.
Really nice work – finally I can change my old tables!
Regards
Tom
What an awesome plugin, Simon! Consider using it at my website curso.dk
Thanks man!
Looking forward to some new tabels..
have i done any mistale, kindly inform why my problem is deleted
I cant add TABLES , is there any solution ?
I am eager to use websimon
Hi Girdhar, I get a lot of spam comments and I probably deleted your comment by mistake, sorry!
I do not know why you can´t create tables. There was a problem in the first version of the plugin but that should have been fixed in the latest update. Please use the contact form above to send me an message with your problem instead.
Hejsan Simon! I have tried to create a custom style table with transparent background. The problem is that column width settings doesn’t work with custom skin. Is there a way to solve the problem or can you add another skin with transparent background?
Hej på dig också Jaana!
I´ve never thought of adding an transparent skin but that is really easy so I´ll add that to future updates.
I´ve just discovered the problem with custom widths with custom skin. A fix for that is in the next update (1.2) which I´ll try to do next week.
Hej!
Gillar pluginet och håller på att bygga en tabell. Funkade finfint när jag var inne och testade men nu när jag är inne och lagt till 20 ytterligare rader och klickar på spara så kommer jag til en sidan som säger
Sorry, you cannot process data this way.
hmmmmm….
Puh! NU funkade det att spara! =o) Plötsligt händer det =o)
The message ”Sorry, you cannot process data this way” is used when the user not is verified (it is called wp nonce). This probably happened when you were logged out or came from an inactive state.
Thank u so so much!1 Great Plugin!!
Hi, I’ve installed plugin, trying to add table, adding table name, row and column, click on add table, but then I don’t see any other option, no table listing.
Please help
Hi Tekri
I´ve emailed you now.
Hi Simon, I’m having the same problem as this – see the last post in this listing.
Please can you help?
Tks, Den.
I am also facing same problem.
Simon told me to mail directly…. but i am transfering my hosting company so i thought will mail him after shifting hosting co.
By the way, TEKRI are u using any other table plugin. May be that would be creating conflict
Excellent plugin – does exactly what you say it does – thank you!
Like others though I really need a table that can be sorted – a similar function to the result when filters are added to an excel spreadsheet.
If at any point you release this function either as standard or as a pro release I would be very happy to pay for it so please do keep me updated.
Cheers
Hi Rosalie,
There has been alot of questions about this feature and I have added it to my future development list. I´m doing the plugin on my spare time so it will probably take some time before its ready.
Hi
Brilliant plugin – I have been trying to find a way to easily add tables. However, a small problem, I hope…..
I have put one table (3 columns x 10 rows) in on one of my pages and it is brilliant. I put another table in on a different page (1 column x 2 rows) and it is just showing as 2 x very narrow columns. When I first refresh it shows it full width, but without the end line, but then quickly reverts to the narrow columns.
I copied the first table in but as soon as I adjusted it – same problem.
Hope you can help
Thanks
Hi Jacqui, please contact me through the contact form above. /Simon
I updated to latest version 1.02 and now I am able to create table.
Simon, your plugin is wonderful, but I suggest one feature…..somehow we gets options of WYSIWYG. Means we can centralized the text, change color of text , bold-italic-underline, add images, hyperlinks, like we do in MS WORDS. I dont have knowledge of html code thats why I can make such changes.
I´m glad the you got it to work Girdhar!
I am not planing to make a WYSIWYG editor to this plugin, the reason for that is that I think it´s to much work to get it to work properly. But I will continue to make updates to the plugin (see faQ above)
Is it possible to change the order of det rows.
I vant the latest row to show first. Row 1 in the bottom…
Yes but only by changing the content in the table cells, I´ll add a function for that in an update later this spring.
Hi Simon,
Is there a way to make this useable by all users? Right now I can only use it through an Administrative user. Thanks!
Zach
Hi Simon:
Love your plugin–thanks. Seems to be the only one that actually works.
OK, how do I get rid of the table header? There are many instances where the table header isn’t required and is a visual nuisance. Have you thought about adding a checkbox in the Edit Table Structure and Style toolbox to enable and disable it?
Thanks again for the great work!
Scott
Hi, great plugin – the only thing i cant figure out is how to rename already created table. Is there a poslibility for this? (when i make copy of existing table – i would like to have posibility to rename it after). This would help to organise tables better.
Hi Krzysztof, that feature will come in the next update
Hi,
Good job !
How to translate tables with qtranslate for example ?
Thanks
Hello SImon,
How can I use the table when I have a WordPress Network of different WP-sites. Every site should use the same plugin input, but it seems I can only use it for one of the website. The others aren’t capable of creating a database it seems. I’m not sure what to do. Hope you have an idea. Thanks.
Just thought I’d drop a note here, in case anyone runs into a problem when adding rel=”nofollow” text links in Table Content. Remember to use the full URL – including HTTP:// when adding your link; this goes for images as well.
If you don’t, the link will likely direct you to a 404 page on your site.
Hope this helps.
Simon, tack för denna plugin. Det är verkligen trevligt.
//rt
Synd om href länka ovan.
Thanks for the input and I´ve fixed the extreeemely long link you created
Hi Simon,
I am unable to load pictures into the table content. What have I missed or am doing wrong please?
I have tried : from the media library
Copy but unable to paste into a cell
Drag and drop – this just enters the location of the file in the cell without displaying the picture even after saving and updating the page on which the table resides.
From picture libraries outside of wordpress – no pasting into a cell
no dragging into a cell.
Hi Bill, you need to use html markup to display a picture. There is no drag and drop functionality in the plugin. See FaQ for examples how to display a picture.
Hi Simon
Wonderful job, keep up the good work. I’m sure I must also be doing something wrong because I’m having the same proble with displaying a picture in a cell.
Thanks
Hi Mac, have you tried using the html code for displaying pictures?
Finally a table plugin worth using.
One simple question. I have four columns and four rows. I’m using images and text.
The images and next HEIGHT is not that big. However the space for each box has so much white space above and below the text and images.
Is there a way to reduce the height of each row or the whole table. I want it to fit of course, but right now it appears that it is full size boxes.
How do I control the space above and below the table? (Even though the style is ”paragraph” for the table and the text above and below, when I inserted the table, it put extra white space above and below the table: http://www.weldaid.com/wordpress/products/1st-zinc/
).
Thanks for a great plug-in!
Mark
Thanks so much for sharing the great little plugin with us.
I was searching for something exactly like this all over the web.
Highly appreciated!
Hi Simon,
I’ve played around with your plugin and really love it.
I need you help though.
The Color Picker feature does not work for me.
I still have to manually input the color codes.
What can the reason be for this?
Thanks.
Hi Herschel
colorpicker sometimes doesn´t work. I´ll try to make an update for that in the next update.
I´ve noted that the javascript that makes that cool
Hi -
Is it possible to edit the table data anywhere on the backend? I’m wondering if there is a way to edit row numbers from within a file rather than doing the copy/paste method from within WordPress.
Thanks,
Paul
Hi Paul
I´m working on an update for the plugin as we speak (comment) that will add som more functionality backend. For example the possibility to add/delete rows and columns and the possibility to easy change the row order and column order. If everything goes as I plan this update will take place next week.
You are my hero.
Hi,
two questions:
1)
is there a way to export and import tables?
2)
is it possible to change the default settings for structure and layout? I would like to set it to the blue layout and make some changes to the font sizes as well and keep those as default.
Thanks,
Arnold
Hi Arnold
1) no, not yet. This won´t be in the next update which adds alot of functionality to table content manager. I will make both import and export features in updates ahead.
2) The best way to do that is to duplicate a table. I will soon update the plugin and make it possible to change the tables name as well.
Great plugin but I think there are some bugs in the new version. I figured you might need some testing help since you just released it today.
I get an error when I try to rename: Warning: require_once(php/rename_table.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home3/[domainname/public_html/[wpname]/wp-content/plugins/websimon-tables/websimon_tables.php on line 149
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘php/rename_table.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home3/[domainname]/public_html/[wpname]/wp-content/plugins/websimon-tables/websimon_tables.php on line 149
I also do not see any images on the update content page. They are all broken links. The functions do appear to work.
Thank you for your hard work.
Hi Nancy, thanks for letting me know so quickly, for some reason the new files hasn´t been transferred correctly to the wordpress plugin repository. I´m trying to fix this issue directly.
I think it should work now. If you still are having problems try to update to version 1.1.2
Hey Simon -
First off, thanks for the update!
Can you not update from within WordPress? It says I’m current, but I’m only on 1.02.
Paul
Hi Paul, the update should be pushed out automatically by the wordpress repository… Hmm I need to have a look at way that isn´t working…
Thanks so much Simon for fixing that color picker issue.
And thanks for all the new features & updates.
Hi,
Just downloaded the new plugin version 1.3.1. In my custom skin I had changed the background color to ”transparent”. But with this new version the transparant color has changed into FFFFFF, white. I cannot change it back to transparent, because that is no option in the color picker. And if I type ”transparent” in the field it changed back to FFFFFF. Is it possible to have the table transparent?
Hello,
Your latest version is amazing, thanks a lot ! Since we can add, remove and move rows and columns inside a table, it’s really perfect…!
The Martians Mega-3 thanks you, keep on the good work !
Hi Maarten, glad you liked it!
Hej,
Jag gillar verkligen ditt plugin och planerar att använda det i en webbsida jag jobbar med just nu. Jag har ett problem att jag inte kan installera pluginet då jag inte använder wordpress utan ett hemsideprogram (N.nu). Jag har laddat hem pluginet från wordpress och jag undrar nu om jag kan använda någon av informationen i de nedladdade filerna för att använda i mitt hemsideprogram. Om detta är möjligt, vilken del är det då jag behöver för att kunna skapa tabellerna?
Med vänlig hälsning
Rickard
Hej, pluginet är tyvärr, vad jag vet, inte kompatibelt med systemet på n.nu. Det är helt kopplat till wordpress.
Hi Simon!
I really like your plugin and would like to use it for my page! The tables look very cool!
unfortunately it causes trouble with my theme when using Internet Explorer. Everything seems to be displaced. I’m using the ‘iFeature Pro 4′ theme for wordpress. Any ideas for solving this problem?
Its almost impossible to know what causes your problems without an url..
i have used this plugin , its nice but i am facing strange issue.
table is created successfully but style is not apply , it display plain white….style apply to table
please help me
Have you updated to version 1.3.2? this version has an css bug fix that might be of use to you.
yes i have tried that, but still i am facing this issue. in preview and live side both table style looks blank…. i am facing this issue after updating version 1.02
Hi
It´s possible that you have had problems with a bug in version 1.3.1 that is fixed in version 1.3.2. It´s fixing the issue that you have problems with. If you still are having problems, please use the contact form above and we´ll take it from there.
one thing i would like to tell you that i have marked that in head there is wp-content/plugins/websimon-tables/css/table_skins.php
in this php, insted of generate table css, there is whole code of my page..like start from <doctype to
there is not css of table
I hope this point is help you to understand and help me to get out of this issue……
Thanks to reply
This issue should be resolved in version 1.3.2, there was a small bug in version 1.3.1 that caused that error, if an update doesn´t help you you can contact me and we´ll take it from there
Hi,
Is it possible to move Websimon Tables from tools somewhere else? The problem is non-admin users can’t create them, they don’t have aceess to the tools items. And I’m not giving them admin permissions just because of the tables and I’m not willing to spend my time to create the tables for them. Can you please solve this?
Thanks for this great table plugin, I am actually giving it a shot now. Hopefully it’s that easy to use.
Dear Simon.
Your table plugin are simply the best table plugin I have ever used!
Hope you will continue to develop
Best regards
Tom
I used Table Reloaded but this one is equally powerful – probably, in some cases – your plugin is much more useful. I tried this on of the new client site and I was amazed with the output.
Awesome. keep up the good work
Excellect plugin. We should thank you for this addon.
First off, I just wanted to say I love this plugin, it’s by far the best one I’ve worked with. Quick question, is it possible to use an image as the entire table background rather then a color?
Thank you.
Hi Michael,
There is no built in option for that. You can of course make some simple hacks yourself if you are used to handle html and css.
I´ll consider adding that feature in the future
Hi,
I love this plugin, but I´d like to put a link into one cell which opens a contact form in a lightbox. The lightbox is activated via shortcode but it seems that shortcodes do not work in the table? Is there a way to make these shortcodes work?
Hi Joerg, currently there are no support for shortcodes inside of the table, I´m considering adding that feature in the future.
Hi Simon,
thank you for your reply. Is it possible to pay you for adding it? The business I´m working for needs this plugin so badly
Hi Joerg, thanks for your offer
but currently I do not have any time to do that. But I can promise that I´ll try to add it to the plugin repository (for free) as soon as I´ve got some time and energy 
Hi Joerg,
Thanks for this great plugin. Really love it. 1 vote from me. BTW, can I change the download button to Paypal button?
thanks for the plugin, yet, i dont know how to insert a text within table cell… i paste the ws_table id=”2″ (btw square brackets) into my page, the table is there without any content…thx in advance
oops! sorry, i ve just fount it out! it’s in edit content..
thnks a lot
is it possible to use html tags within cells’ content?, ive been trying but in vain
Yes its possible to use any html tags that you want inside of the table content.
I’m migrating my site, which uses serveral Websimon tables, to another server. I did a WP Export, but the tables were not included.
Besides having to recreate each table, is there an easy way to copy the tables to my new server?
TIA
There is no easy way to export the contents of the tables. There is of course a way to do it manually by installing the plugin in your new installation and then exporting and then importing the table ”wp_websimon_tables” with for example phpmyadmin. This is also possible through plugins like WP-DB-Backup where you can download database tables inside of wordpress admin.
These options are of course not the best ones and I will add a feature for this in upcoming releases.
Hey There
I am not able to add any tables for some reason? I am assigning a table name, number of rows and number of columns but it is not generating a new table.
Could the issue be a conflict between another table plugin I have? I am using the CSS3 Web Pricing Tables Grid.
Thanks!
Rob
Hey Simon,
Mange tak for et rigtig fedt plugin, som der virkelig har været brug for til WordPress længe.
Jeg bruger det selv på et par af mine egne sider samt en del af mine kunders.
Keep up the good work og kom gerne med noget mere snart
Hey Simon,
I have been using these very successfully on clients websites, so thank you.
However I do have an issue with the tables in that in custom the ‘Table Content Colours’ don’t work. They only show a plain white background?
Hi
There was a bug in an earlier version that caused that problem but that should be resolved in the latest update. Check that you have the latest version first, if that does not work you can contact me through the contact form above.
Hi – great plugin – thanks! However, I’ve noticed that if you used the functionality to ‘remove header’ then the column %width tick boxes no longer function properly. All works fine when the ‘remove header’ is unticked again.
Hi, thanks for your input. The column widths is set in the header and thats why it stops working. I´ll check if I can make a workaround for that!
Hi
Can you tell me if there are a maximum number of rows to a table. When I increase mine above 500, it stops saving any data?
thanks
Tina
Hi Tina,
There is no maximum set to the number of rows but there is a limit on how many chars the table content can contain. The limit is a string with a maximum length of 16,777,215 characters (approx 3 million words).
Thanks Simon
SO would I be better off just adding a new table if I need to rather than extending the original one beyond 500 rows. I’m likely to need around 700 but when I alter it to that, it won’t save data.
Otherwise it’s a great plug-in
thanks
Tina
Hi, if that works for you it could be a good idea. I´ve heard similar problems for other users of the plugin but I have never succesfully been able to recreate (and fix) the problem.
How can I embed a flash video in a cell?
Just paste the html code inside of a cell.
Pluginen är kanon men ja saknar radbryt och knappar för länkar och fet text. Får den det blir det lätt den bästa tabellpluginen på wp!
Any idea on when the import and export feature will come? I have a large client that has lots of tables and they would take forever to cut and paste.
By the way, this is the best tables design plugin ever! Thanks!!!
Dante
Hi Simon – first off, thank you for the table plugin, it’s very flexible and hasn’t caused problems with .js on my site like most of the other table related plugins I’ve tried.
My question, is there a min-width set on the table anywhere? I’m trying to include the table in a responsive design I’m working on and it’s fine for a range of screen sizes until I get down to smart phone/tablet size. At that point the table seems to extend beyond the boundary of its container – the table seems to stop adapting once it reaches around the 440px width.
Thanks for any information
Hi, thanks for a great plugin. I’m not very good at html but is there a way to make an ”entire row” into a cklickable link? I figured out how to make individual words/cells of the table into links but I would like to create a table where you can click anywhere on a row and go to a different page (I’m making a list of apartment for sale with different information in the different fields but every horisontal row is an individual apartment, I want to be able to click on any one of the apartments and get to a separate page for that apartment)
Martin S
Love the plugin. Is there a way of having different color and/or size font in each table cell?
Hi, no this is not possible, it´s probably better to design your own custom table for this.
Hi there,
I love what you have done with this plug-in but am hoping you can help me.
I am using the latest version 1.3.2. of your plug-in with a current version of wordpress. Please see the page with table that I am talking about. As you can see the data displays but the table and format do not. thailand-tigers . com/games/
I suspect this could be a conflict with the CSS coding but would really appreciate your advice.
Thanks Alan
Hi, I took a quick look and the problem is that the css script (table_skins.php) isn´t loaded. Are you using wp_head()in your theme?
I will update the plugin in a couple of days anyway and I think that will sort out your problem.
Hello Simon,
Love the table plugin you created. Updated your plugin to the latest version today and all our tables vanished from our pages. They were all there and functioning fine before this last update. Here is a link to our site, after every image there should be a table with info about the images.
http://www.tripletouchmoulding.ca/mt-moulding/
Please advise on when a fix can remedy this problem or is there something I’m overlooking?
Thank you.
Hi Kevin, there were som files that wasn´t uploaded the first 5 – 10 minutes of the update. These files are now included so if you download the plugin and add all of the files in the plugin folder (do not delete the plugin) this should fix your problem. If this do not work please contact me through the contact field above.
Thanks for the response back Simon. Really appreciate it. I uploaded the folder to my plugins directory as you specified. Everything seems to be good now except for a left adjustment with the tables only on tables with 6 columns. It’s probably something on my end that needs to be tweaked. Thanks again for your help in this matter.
Kevin
Hello Simon,
I am quite happy with your plugin but I am struggeling with one thing. I have a multi-sites wordpress for different languages but your plugin is only working in the first one. I do see your plugin in every site under tools but it fails to add a new table.
Any ideas / work arounds?
Jan
Hi Simon,
I just downloaded the new update and everything is working perfectly now. I am not a web developer and do not know how to load the css script (table_skins.php)so you have saved me a lot of research and messing around. I will certainly be recommending your plug-in to my friends. Thank you soooooo much…
Alan
hi,
when trying to import a csv file (First row is headlines), i get an error
”
Warning: Division by zero in ../html/wp-content/plugins/websimon-tables/php/requests.php on line 351
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at …/html/wp-content/plugins/websimon-tables/php/requests.php:351) in …/html/wp-content/plugins/websimon-tables/php/requests.php on line 397″
Hi Dave, the import function is still in beta, if it´s ok with you you can always contact me via the contact field above and maybe I can try with your csv file and try to recreate the problem.
Hello! Thank you for good table plagin. I have problem. Text In preview is normal but on my site the same text is wrong. Size of numerals is not equal. Why does it happen?
That’s a great plugin you’ve made Simon, thank you!
I do have one question: earlier in this thread, you’ve said that you would add the possibility of a transparent background, but I can’t get it to work. When I enter ”transparent”, it’s automatically shifted back to FFFFFF. Would be great if you could implement it!
Hi, there is no option for that yet, there has been alot of requests for this so I´ll try to add it as soon as possible.
Hi Simon,
that would be great, thanks!
Hi, I’m using your plugin on a site with high traffic and my hosting company sent me the following message: ”Most of the load is caused by the high number of executions of wp-content/plugins/websimon-tables/css/table_skins.php. It seems the Websimon Tables plugin is dynamically generating a CSS file each time your website is visited. Please check if you can use a static CSS file instead.”
Is there an easy solution to generate a static CSS file? Appreciate the help!
Hi, there is an update in 1.3.3 that changes this. The css is now loaded in a different way. This should improve your loading times.
Great, thank you for your support and quick reply.
Seems to be a very nice table plugin.
Used Tables Reloaded before and like this one more!
Simon
I’ve got a stupid question – I’m trying to insert and image into the table and after reading how to do it in FAQ I’m still having trouble.
Is it possible you could give me more idiot proof instructions?
Thanks
me not so smart
Hi, it´s just an image tag. Be sure to check that you have the correct url to your image.
Hey Simon,
Very nice plugin !
I have however a question :
- since your plugin ‘inject’ the style for the table right before the table is inserted it seems like I cannot make the table ”responsive” by changing the font-size depending on the media query (even with the css !important flag)
-> Thus my question : could you add an option for your plugin to not output any styling at all ? (This way I could use my responsive CSS instead)
Or at least I would like to be able to change the font-size depending on the media query as with a 1.2em font it’s almost impossible to view a 6 columns table containing words a bit long.
Thanks,
Cheers,
PS : if you have another solution I’m taking
Hi,
It´s kind of a problem where the dynamic css is loaded. In the previos versions the css was loaded as a script and when users had alot of tables that script took waaay to long to load. This solution is not very nice either and I´m looking for a better way to solve it.
You can always hack the plugin to suit your needs if you are familiar with php.
It would really be helpful to be able to style the left column with bold or something so it can be a table besides just headers at the top.
Hi.
If you want bold, you can just write your text. I just found this out myself, but it can really come in handy. I agree it would be nice to have the possibility to flip the headers so they where on the left instead of on the top, but with bold at least it’s something
Good luck!
That code works too well, haha.
your text, but without the spaces.
damn… I try to show you how to write this thing, but instead it just shows the text in bold… anyway.. take a look at this site
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp
you are looking for the strong text.. Sorry about the mess, and good luck
First, thank you! I love your plugin and have been using it for a while. The only trouble is that I now have so many tables on my site (over 400) that the CSS file it generates has gotten out of hand—it’s got so many classes that older versions of Internet Explorer can’t parse the whole thing! As a result, many tables were rendering in those browsers without any styling at all. To solve this, I simply edited the plugin so that tables using a skin will reuse that skin’s CSS classes, instead of generating new classes for each table ID when using a predefined skin.
That would be the end of it, except you’re such a great developer, you’re making new updates and features all the time that I’m not able to utilize because my plugin is modded! Is there any chance that this idea of reusing classes could be included in a future update, so that I can start updating to the current version again?
Thank you!
Hi, re CSV loading I posted before. I am having hosting co check some other issues like using images in the header which isnt working either! Its a new host for me so might be server side problem preventing CSV file being read. See how the Participants Database plugin does it. That works fine.
Second, This might be a challenge but I have a requirement where logged in users need a column they can see with other information that the usual public browser cannot. This could be CSS to hide a column/row or using an SQLview perhaps? Quite a big one that I understand.
Sorting/searching is also high on my list.
Thanks for great plugin.
Andrew
Is there any reason that chrome wouldn’t acknowledge the changed width? I’ve set it to 640px and 30% 30% 30% and can see three columns in firefox, but in chrome, I am only seeing 2 columns. The page is here.
Nevermind…got it working:)
Hi, when retrieving data from .csv you are killing one column by reducing it by one in requests.php
$name = $_POST['import_table_name'];
if ($heads)
{
$rows = $nr_of_rows-1;
$cols = $nr_of_cols-1;
}
you can change it to the following to resolve the issue:
$cols = $nr_of_cols;
I have also tested it.
Great plug-in thank you!
Doguhan
good pluguin, thanks!
But, Could you translate this post, would be better.
Thanks
How do i align the table to either side of the page? Not just content in table but the whole table?
Besides that it´s just a great plugin
Regards
Kristian
Hi Simon,
Thanks for the very nice plugin.
Please help me on this simple question:
some cells in my table must have multiple lines with some random values, but even if I start a neww line with ”enter” it keeps following the previous value in the same line. How to force the end of line?
Thank you!!!
Jag är så tacksam för att jag hittade ditt plugin! Jag provade några innan och blev smått galen för att tabellerna inte gick att editera som jag ville. Sen provade jag din – TACK!
Hi simon thanks for this plugin.
i have a bunch of errors when i use this plugin.
is there a way to contact you to send more information?
i cant find a contact form here.
Best regards
hi simon! great plug in! I just sent a donation!
I am seeing a small problem – on my table, the vertical borders are not showing in all places. It skips them in areas. Look at: http://shiningstarphotobooth.com/packages-and-rates/ and notice where it skips
I do not know how to fix this – is it a bug?
Hi Mark.
This appears on my site as well. Did you find a way to fix it?
Thanks!
Martin
no – I have not found a way to fix it. Hopefully Simon responds or it fixed in an update soon. I have people commenting on the visual bug.
Hi Mark, I took a look in firefox, chrome and IE8 and the only one that had problems was IE. There is a problem for IE to display box shadows since this is not supported in that browser. Maybe this could be the problem?
Hi!
Great plugin!
In my table i have ”Horizontal text align body:left”. Is there a html code (or css or another solution) so I can have one cell with align right? Or even better, is there a way to do this with a whole column?
Thanks!
I have found the answer for one cell. Just use div align, like in this link
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_div_align.asp
If there is a way to do this for a column, let me know please
Hi. I love your plug-in. But I recently ran into a problem with the tables showing in Internet explorer. I am using the dark red and white skin and it worked fine but now in ie it won’t show he red at all, but instead shows the table as being faded. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks.
Hi John, there has been some problems with IE and CSS3 since alot of features isn´t supported in IE<9. This can also be caused by invalid markup inside your table.
I really like this plugin! It seems to what I need except that I need for Editors to be able to edit the tables. Right now only an admin can edit them. I looked at User Role Editor to see if I could add the capablility there and no.
Can you tell me how to give Editors level users the ability to create and edit tables?
Thank you!
Hi, it is of course possible to edit the plugins source code and change the user roles that has access to the plugin page. I will consider adding support for different roles in upcoming releases.
Hi!
This plugin is what i was looking for!
Is there any option to change Hover colour in Custom Skin Edit? Can i do it by changes in css via table_skins.php?
TIA
Wicher
Hi, no there is no option for this (yet). I think it is better to add som styles before your table for example in your posts html mode. This way you won´t be having any problems if the plugin is updated.
Hi there, I’ve installed the plugin as recommended but cannot see any tables in the list – either created or imported?
I am however using Woothemes Canvas – is this a problem?
Thanks, Den
Hi again Simon,
I’ve reinstalled your plugin and tried using other browsers but still get the same result – add a table, the screen refreshes, but the table doesn’t appear in the list?
I just get this result:
ALL TABLES
ID Name Rows × Cols Shortcode PHP code Edit
ID Name Rows × Cols Shortcode PHP code Edit
Thanks, Den.
I like your plug-in and it works great for my needs. However, it seems to be holding me for ransom right now. It seems to want me to contribute $10. I’ll gladly contibute $10, but your paypal site is all in non-English form. Please present an English format so I can continue with my site.
I just LOVE this plug-in! It is the BEST way to format data on a WordPress blog that I have ever seen! I have installed/used alot of WP Plugins over the years, and this is the 1st one that has excited me enough to comment how great it is. As soon as I can afford it, I will be donating to help you keep updating this! Keep up the good work! Steve (3rdworldman)
Please can I have the back the hours I wasted trying to make Easy Tables do what I just created in 10 mins using Websimon Tables! Worth every dollar I just donated. Bravo!
Hi im having problems im using this plugin now its so nice but if i put it in a full width page im not able to center it ho is this possible to get it in the center.
http://www.team-cowboyz.com/?page_id=39
Hi, thanks for your work but the Plugin dosnt work for my blogs (nearly 10). i installed original WP 3.5.1 (on of them completly new and without other plugins, but websimon-tables dosnt work. i dint see these little icons in the articel writing section. i have own db table prefixes like xyzwp_table is this a problem?
Hi simon thank you very much, I use this plugin in my web. This is a great plugin