WordPress Table Plug in TablePress Installation Tutorial _ Enterprise Website Essential Table Plug in

TablePress plug-in It is used to generate insert tables in wordpress programs. It is a powerful tool for building websites. Wordpress itself does not provide a table generation function. Before the table plug-in, we had to manually insert html code. Many years ago, Lao Wei used word or dreamweaver to generate a table, and then inserted it into the article editing area of Wordpress. The table was too large, too small, too large, and the size was wrong, and we had to adjust it in the code area, which was troublesome and inefficient. Now it is much easier to have the TablePress plug-in. What do you need Wordpress table It can be generated quickly and is very professional. Weiss Notes Share installation and use TablePress plug-in The process of generating tables.

I wrote a similar article here before WordPress Table TablePress Plug in Simple Use This article enriches the content of that article and adds some new plug-ins.

TablePress plug-in installation enable

In Wordpress background>Plug in>Install Plug in>Search for "Tablepress", you will see the TablePress plug-in shown below. Just install and enable it.

Introduction to the TablePress plug-in

TablePress is an open source and free plugin of wordpress. No one needs to understand code knowledge. Using the TablePress plug-in, you can create and manage tables on the website. Comfortable interface, easy to edit table data. Tables can contain data, such as numbers, text, images, links, mathematical formulas, etc. It can also realize real-time sorting, paging, searching and other functions.

Use of TablePress plug-in

Create a new TablePress table

After enabling, you can find the TablePress toolbar on the left side of the WordPress background. This plug-in has been localized in Chinese.

Click "New Table" and enter the table name, number of rows and columns. Or load an existing table from a CSV, HTML, JSON, XLS, or XLSX file.

Set the TablePress table as needed

As shown in the figure below, you can edit data and change the table structure, such as inserting, deleting, moving or exchanging rows or columns, reordering, etc;

Set specific table characteristics as required, such as alternate row background color or select whether to display table name or description;

Add hyperlink or picture to table cell function. Fill in the necessary information according to the prompt, and the corresponding HTML code will be automatically added to the selected cell.

It's all in Chinese. You can set it according to your own needs. It's easy to understand.

Different people need different table display styles. This is done by modifying and adding CSS code. You can modify the default CSS style built in the TablePress plug-in, or replace it with another CSS style sheet.

Insert TablePress Table

There are two ways to check the effect of a table:

1. Preview the form. You can find it at the bottom of the form operation background and click "Preview" to view the effect directly, so that the design of the form is faster;

2. Insert Table Short Code

When the preview is OK, you can insert a table into the article and page, and directly copy the short code of the table (also called the short code, which is located at the top right of the table). For example, the short code of the table created by Lao Wei above: [table id=1/] Take the avada theme as an example, add element>text block in the article editing, switch to the text status, and paste the short code, The classic editor or Gutenberg editor can be directly thrown into the "Text" in the article editing area. After saving, go to the previous page to have a look.

As shown in the following figure, the style and color can be changed according to the above tips.

Lao Wei had a small accident when testing the TablePress plug-in: when the first website was installed and enabled, the plug-in would follow the changes between Chinese and English according to the website language settings; The second website is always in English. We had to go to/wp content/languages/plugins/of the first website to download the tablepress-zh_CN.mo and tablepress-zh_CN.po files, and throw them to the same location of the second website. Only then can they be normal.

TablePress Table css Style Sheet

The great feature of the TablePress plug-in is that it supports the loading of css style sheets, which can make all kinds of table styles you need.

Find "Plug in Options" in Wordpress background>TablePress, add css style code, and check "Load" to take effect.

In addition, you can select the display position of the TablePress plug-in in the background of wordpress, which can be displayed in 15 different positions for personal preference.

TablePress tables are available in all stations

Another useful feature of the TablePress plug-in is that after setting a table at the plug-in, it can be used in multiple articles on the website. If there is any change in the table content in the later stage, it is good to directly change the TablePress table. The table in the article will automatically follow the update. Previously, we used to use forms such as word and excel. After modification, we had to search and update all forms in the entire website. Now, we don't need them. It's very convenient.

on the whole TablePress Table Plug in It is very easy to use. It solves the huge trouble of wordpress inserting tables, and can customize the style with high flexibility. For example, when there are many product parameters on foreign trade websites and enterprise websites, this plug-in can be used. It is simple and easy to use.