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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Latest update: 2012-04-20, Version 1.3.2
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game | John | Peter | James | Simon | Sofia |
| Game 1 | 89 | 34 | 34 | 99 | 99 |
| Game 2 | 89 | 34 | 102 | 89 | 346 |
| Game 3 | 89 | 89 | 34 | 6 | 102 |
| Game 4 | 89 | 57 | 13 | 13 | 57 |
| Game 5 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 102 | 34 |
| Game 6 | 89 | 99 | 34 | 89 | 102 |
| Game 7 | 89 | 57 | 6 | 6 | 13 |
| Game 8 | 89 | 6 | 57 | 6 | 57 |
| Game 9 | 89 | 6 | 57 | 57 | 99 |
| Game 10 | 89 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 13 |
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.
- 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"><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
Ask more questions:
Please read FaQ above first!!
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. 
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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!!
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.
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.
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