Comments on: How To Add And Manage Tables In WordPress Posts

By: Ningbo

Ningbo — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:44:51 +0000

WP-Table Reloaded is a very useful plugin for publishing any kind of table. I am starting a new hotel guide type of website and I needed to list all the hotel options in several tables.
I did a try with TinyMCE advanced functions (worked alright) but found that WP-table reloaded produced an even much cleaner code.
True that this plugin has been totally rewritten for WP 2.8 and above.

But I would like to mention here its author, Tobias Bäthge, which attitude is very positive and helpful for the WP community.

I needed help and opened a thread on the WP forum. In less than an hour I had a reply from Tobias.
I thought I was lucky but when I checked his tracklist, I found he always managed to answer in about 1 or 2 hours.(!)

For sure this guy doesn’t save his energy to keep its plugin running as well as giving help to lots of users.
I even contacted him by mail for a specific request and had a very clear and explicit answer in about 1 hour.

Not so common today, this is why I decided to mention it here.

Paul

By: SBA

SBA — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:48:06 +0000

John, thanks for info about the Post Background plugin. However the description only talks about changing post background colors. This article is about tables. Does the plugin also do tables?

By: John

John — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:54:41 +0000

I was about to pull my hair out with this topic, trying to get a background image in the post.

I just ran across a free WP plugin that does the work for you! VERY EASY!

In your dashboard, go to Plugins -> Add New and type in Post Background. The name of the plugin is: Custom Post Background. Hope that helps!

John

By: snowivy

snowivy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:17:29 +0000

Thanks for this post! It helped a lot on my research.

By: SBA

SBA — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:00:07 +0000

Greg,
You can not drag and drop tables. You can’t even safely highlight the rows and copy/paste in Compose Mode since you’ll miss the full table variables. Naturally you can highlight in html mode but it’s hard to find.

The safest way to move is to first turn on border to see the cells, then add an anchor word on the line above and below the table. Use those anchor lines to copy the words and the table, delete since it’s now in the clipboard, then paste into the new location. Turn off border, clean up anchor words.

As for side by side, You can create a single row, 2 cell table and copy-paste one table into each cell. Need to be careful they fit the width of your post column.

By: Greg U

Greg U — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:22:14 +0000

Is there any possible way of being able to move the tables in the editor?

In my editor, I can’t put tables side by side , they automatically create a line break. Is there a possibility of being able to “move” or “drag” the tables ( like one would do with images?). Am I missing a parameter in the options?

By: Paul Schlegel

Paul Schlegel — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:03:09 +0000

One thing that has me perplexed about WP-Tables reloaded is that sometimes Google picks up the table entries and sometimes it doesn’t.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I just asked about it in WordPress plugin support. So if I get an answer there, I’ll post it here.

By: SBA

SBA — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:52:40 +0000

Yes there is bullet styling but it’s for anything in a post (your table just inherits the settings: It spaces in 9px to allow room for the background bullet image — so don’t change it !

.Post ul li, .Post ol ul li
{
background-image: url(‘images/bullet2.jpg’);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
padding-left:9px;
}
So I think the difference in the two bullet list does have to do with the table but it may be the fact that this is the only row in the table (th) and is styled to center and spread out in the available space of 740 with only 4 cells.
*** added on July 2:
You can do the same thing without tables!!! Assuming you have only one line across the page. Replace the table code with:

Healthcare

Technology

Sports and Leisure

Consumer Advantage

By: Matt Baehr

Matt Baehr — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:15:00 +0000

Thanks so much. I figured they were in the stylesheet somewhere, but I am a little new to editing them. I got rid of the border and removed the class like you suggested. Now it works. The only minor detail is that the text seems very far from the bullets now, and I am not sure why.

http://trailblazerresearch.com/

On this page, the text is right on the bullet.

http://trailblazerresearch.com.....-help-you/

Is there another place in the style sheet for bullets within tables? I didn’t see one, but I could have missed it.

Thanks again for all your help!

By: SBA

SBA — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:01:31 +0000

I think the table styles are set within your template for articles/posts:

*** this is just part of the styling but it is what sets the ‘border’ on the first or header columns. the color is #819292 as specified below.

.article th, .article td
{
padding: 2px;
border: solid 1px #819292;
vertical-align: top;
text-align:left;
}

So if this table is different then you need to give it a new class. I notice if you remove class=”aligncenter” then the width you want takes effect.. Hope this helps.