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.
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Create and design tables in wordpress
This plugin was created between november 2011 to januari 2012 and I´m now releasing this first version of this plugin. 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
| Headline 1 | Headline 2 | Headline 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Headline 1 | Headline 2 | Headline 3 |
| "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua." This is a line break | "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua." | |
| "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua." | "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua." | |
| "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua." | "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua." | |
A financial looking table
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
| Good market | Neutral | Bad weather | Bad |
| Profit | Profit | Profit | Profit |
| Currency | Currency | Currency | Currency |
| Discounted cash flow | Discounted cash flow | Discounted cash flow | Discounted cash flow |
A red table with custom width
| Love | Hate |
|---|---|
| Love | Hate |
| nice thing | not so nice |
| roses | bad |
A dark blue table with lots of information
| Game | John | Peter | James | Simon | Sofia | Frans | Barak | Fredrik | Sara |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game | John | Peter | James | Simon | Sofia | Frans | Barak | Fredrik | Sara |
| Game 1 | 89 | 34 | 34 | 99 | 99 | 34 | 85 | 99 | 102 |
| Game 2 | 89 | 34 | 102 | 89 | 346 | 99 | 102 | 99 | 99 |
| Game 3 | 89 | 89 | 34 | 6 | 102 | 89 | 34 | 34 | 102 |
| Game 4 | 89 | 57 | 13 | 13 | 57 | 13 | 34 | 89 | 13 |
| Game 5 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 102 | 34 | 57 | 6 | 6 | 89 |
| Game 6 | 89 | 99 | 34 | 89 | 102 | 896 | 89 | 89 | 6 |
| Game 7 | 89 | 57 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 57 | 13 | 6 | 102 |
| Game 8 | 89 | 6 | 57 | 6 | 57 | 6 | 57 | 13 | 102 |
| Game 9 | 89 | 6 | 57 | 57 | 99 | 57 | 6 | 99 | 99 |
| Game 10 | 89 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 6 |
Screenshots of websimon tables admin pages
Features
- Create and manage tables and css from your wordpress admin pages.
- Create as many tables as you want to.
- Shortcode to display tables in posts or pages.
- php Script to display tables directly from your code.
- Settings available:
- 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: 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" alt="my link"><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.
Q: How do I insert or move Columns/Rows in a table?
A: Right now it is hard word to do that
(Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V) I´ll add a function for that in an update later this spring.
Q: Is there a rowspan/colspan functionality?
A: No not yet. I´m planning to make an update for that in coming releases!
Ask more questions:
Please read FaQ above first!!
Changelog
- 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
- 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.
- Version 1.0 is released 2012-01-01
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.









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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
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!!
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