More than two months after the release of version 1.4, the development of WP-Table Reloaded 1.5 is almost finished.
Among the many new features and enhancements are (might not be complete):

• added the DataTables JavaScript library with these features:
  • sorting, pagination, filtering, TableTools (Copy to Clipboard, CSV/XLS export, Print)
  • (also added these to the “List Tables” screen)
• heavily redesigned the “Edit Table” screen
  • Bulk operations for inserting, deleting, …
  • Warning message if changes not yet saved
• added features to the “Plugin Options”
  • set access requirements (user roles) to the plugin and the Options
  • Change position of the plugin in the admin menu
  • better loading/inclusion of CSS
• many, many plugin filters and actions for plugin customisation
• export/import a dump file (with ALL tables/options/settings at once)
• fixed some minor bugs, errors and glitches
• optimized and restructured big parts of the code
• dropped support for outdated WordPress 2.6

There’s more about some of the new features in this development status announcement.

Because of the many new features and to give the translators enough time to translate the many new or changed strings, I again ask you to participate in a public beta test. The current plan is to release WP-Table Reloaded 1.5 before Christmas, but after the release of WordPress 2.9, which also currently is in beta and should be available in the next weeks.

So, if you are willing to help and want to take part in the beta test, please download the developer version “1.5-beta4″.

Note that I dropped support of WordPress 2.6, so you will need WordPress 2.7 or higher (tested up to WP 2.9-beta2) to use the new release! (I did this, because 2.6 is quite old now and required a lot of special attention, because some new functions are not available.)

To install it, deactivate your current version, replace the folder “wp-table-reloaded” in your “plugins” folder with the one from the downloaded zip-file and activate the plugin again. Deactivation and Activation are VERY IMPORTANT!

BUT: Please note that this is a beta release. Although I’ve tested it on my site, I do NOT recommend using it on your production site, just yet. As always: Please make sure to have a backup of your files and your database before installing it. Thanks!

If you encounter any bugs, errors or problems, please leave them here as a comment. Feature requests are also welcome, but will most probably not be implemented in the 1.5-release, but later.

If you are a translator (or if you would like to translate the plugin into your language), please go ahead and do so. There’s .pot-file included in case you need it.
There are very many new strings, because I rephrased some sentences, so that they are (hopefully) easier to understand. But: Don’t panic! You’ll have at least ten days of time for the translation and most probably more!
After you are done, please email me the *.po and the *.mo file of your language. In any case: Please let me know, if you will be translating the new version or if you can not do it (for whatever reasons). Big thanks to all translators!

(By the way: I use the “Codestyling Localization” plugin to translate the plugin to German as it’s quite easy and more comfortable to use than editors like poEdit.)

Thanks already to all beta-testers and translators! As always: Please don’t hesitate to comment or email me with any questions!