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Test WP-Table Reloaded 1.4-beta2 now!

July 20th, 2009

Just a few days after beta1 of the 1.4-milestone of WP-Table Reloaded, a new developer version is now available:

Download WP-Table Reloaded 1.4-beta2

No bugs were reported to me in beta1, there were just a few minor improvements (mainly CSS stuff) by Separatista (thanks!).
So I decided to add another useful feature: Instead of simply asking for an image URL, the “Insert Image” feature will now enable you to insert an image from the WordPress Media Library into a table. This means that you can upload an image or use an existing one, e.g. from another post.

Because of this, I needed to change/add a few strings that need to be translated. Huge thanks to all translators for doing this! The process is the same as for beta1.

I’m planning to release the final version of 1.4 at the end of next week. As this gives us some time and flexibility, I’d like all of you to please download the beta2, test it thoroughly and eventually update your translation.
Remember to make a backup of your WordPress and to deactivate and then re-activate the plugin.

Please report any issues or problems here as a comment. It would also be very useful to hear, if everything works fine!

Thanks to everybody!

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Testing of WP-Table Reloaded 1.4-beta1

July 16th, 2009

Update: This post hast been superseded by the announcement of 1.4-beta2.

A new version of WP-Table Reloaded is in the making, which will contain a lot of changes and cool new features. This is a (probably incomplete) list of the new stuff:

  • restyled “List of Tables” to suit WP 2.7/2.8 layout, list now sortable
  • added Table and shortcode Preview in the backend
  • added possibility to show/hide rows/columns with checkboxes in the backend
  • textarea for cell data now grows when focussed
  • added “Custom Data Fields” to be able to store table meta data, accessible with a shortcode
  • added “Last edited” (time and user) information
  • fixed many minor bugs, errors and glitches (improved HTML validation)
  • optimized and restructured big parts of the code
  • dropped support for WordPress 2.5
  • added Italian and Japanese language files

Because of the large number of changes and to give the translators enough time to translate the (I hope not too many) new strings, I decided to start a public beta test of version 1.4. (My current plan is to release 1.4 at the end of the month, so that it can be a very stable release. This will also give me some time to update and extend the documentation.)

So, if you are willing to help me a little bit and want to take part in the beta test, please download the developer version “1.4-beta1″ developer version “1.4-beta2″.

Note that I dropped support of WordPress 2.5, so you will need WordPress 2.6 or higher to use the new release! (I did this, because 2.5 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 not that this is a beta release. Although I’ve tested it on my site, I do NOT recommend using it on your production site. 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 1.4-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 a few new strings to translate, but all in all it should not take too long.
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.
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!

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

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WP-Table Reloaded 1.3 ready for WP 2.8

June 9th, 2009

Because of the upcoming WordPress 2.8, I updated WP-Table Reloaded to 1.3. The automatic update should be available through your WordPress admin area shortly.

New features and bugfixes include:

  • Fixed bug in Text Widget support for upcoming WordPress 2.8
  • Fixed small bug for the button in toolbar of the HTML editor.
  • Existing tables can be replaced upon import.
  • The Table ID can be changed.
  • Import from URLs (if you use WP >= 2.7) or files on the webserver.
  • WordPress shortcodes are supported within the table cells.
  • Input fields were changed to textareas to allow entering longer texts.
  • You can add multiple rows/columns to a table more easily.

For the complete list of fixed or implemented issues, have a look at the issue tracker on Google Code.

Additionally, most of the translations were updated and Brazilian Portuguese and Belorussian were added as new available languages.

You can download the latest release 1.3 from the plugin’s page or from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

If you like the plugin, I’d be very happy if you would rate it in the WordPress Plugin Directory. You also might consider a donation or have a look at my Amazon wishlist. This will encourage me to further develop the plugin and keep giving countless hours of support. Thank you!

If you experience any trouble, find bugs or have feature requests, please don’t hesitate to contact me via the means mentioned in the support section. Please make sure to carefully read the plugin’s page as well as the Documentation.

Have fun with the new release!

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WP-Table Reloaded 1.2.1 (bugfix release)

May 18th, 2009

Some users experienced a weird bug when trying to activate the last release 1.2 of WP-Table Reloaded: They received an error message saying that there was a parse error in the plugin file. A lot of other users (including me) could not reproduce this error and did not find any syntax errors.

But thanks to Alex Rabe who provided the solution in a thread in the WordPress support forums, the bug was located and removed. I had accidentally used the short php opener tag “<?” which is not available on all systems and therefore led to the parse error.

The latest release 1.2.1 should now work for everybody again and is now available.
(Note: You don’t have to upgrade if everything is working fine for you.)

Additionally to the bugfix, I added a Polish language file, courtesy of Alex Kortan.

You can download the latest release 1.2.1 from the plugin’s page or from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

If you like the plugin, I’d be very happy if you would rate it in the WordPress Plugin Directory. You also might consider a donation or have a look at my Amazon wishlist. This will encourage me to further develop the plugin and to keep giving countless hours of support. Thank you!

If you experience any trouble, find bugs or have feature requests, please don’t hesitate to contact me via the means mentioned in the support section. Please make sure to carefully read the plugin’s page as well as the Documentation.

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WP-Table Reloaded 1.2 now available!

May 10th, 2009

Development continues and I’m proud to announce the immediate availability of WP-Table Reloaded 1.2.

The automatic update should be available through your WordPress admin area shortly. Remember: In case you’re upgrading from a version smaller then 1.1, please make a backup of your CSS stylesheet first.

There were a few bugs fixed, but those shouldn’t have affected a lot of people as they occured in rare occasions only.

But the list of new features is a little longer:

  • new button “Table” in the toolbar of the HTML-editor to easily include a table (without having to know the Shortcode) into a post/page
  • Bulk actions: Copying, Deleting and Importing (from wp-Table) several tables at the same time
  • new parameters for the Shortcode to change settings when displaying a table
    • (This includes a possibility for easier usage of different column widths, showing only certain parts of a table and all table-specific settings that are accessible in the backend.)
  • added Template Tag function (with all possibilities the Shortcode has) to enable you to show a table in places where Shortcodes don’t work (e.g. if your theme is not widget-ready, or in the footer)
  • table data is sortable in the backend
  • new import/export class for CSV

There also were some changes “under the hood”, which should make the plugin more robust and bring a higher performance. For example, the inclusion of the Tablesorter plugin was optimized, so that it’s now only loaded if there really is a table using it on the page. Also, all JavaScript is loaded in the page footer (where possible) for faster page loading.

For the complete list of fixed or implemented issues, have a look at the issue tracker on Google Code.

Additionally, most of the translations were updated and Czech was added as a new available language. (French, Spanish and Turkish are not yet updated, but will be as soon as I receive the translations.)

As promised in earlier versions, I have written a Documentation (that includes more technical details) than the plugin page, especially regarding the Shortcode, the Template Tag function, Import/Export, CSS styling or the Tablesorter.

You can download the latest release 1.2 from the plugin’s page or from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

If you like the plugin, I’d be very happy if you would rate it in the WordPress Plugin Directory. You also might consider a donation or have a look at my Amazon wishlist. This will encourage me to further develop the plugin and keep giving countless hours of support. Thank you!

If you experience any trouble, find bugs or have feature requests, please don’t hesitate to contact me via the means mentioned in the support section. Please make sure to carefully read the plugin’s page as well as the Documentation.

I hope you enjoy the new release!

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