A few weeks ago, I was approached with a question on whether it is possible to make the textfields on the “Edit” screen of a table wider, to allow for an easier editing of long text. As this might also interest other people, I decided to publish the solution as a WP-Table Reloaded Extension.
» Read more: Extension 7: Textfield widths on the “Edit” page
Extension 7: Textfield widths on the “Edit” page
March 26th, 2010 by Tobias 27 comments »New update available: WP-Table Reloaded 1.7
March 16th, 2010 by Tobias 29 comments »
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deutsche Plugin-SeiteAfter six weeks without an update, a new version of WP-Table Reloaded can be downloaded: The automatic update for WP-Table Reloaded 1.7 should be available in your WordPress admin area shortly.
As already mentioned in the beta test announcement post, the changes are:
- feature: add “Table” button to the visual editor (TinyMCE)
- feature: update DataTables JavaScript library to version 1.6.2, including TableTools
- enhancement: add option for initial number of rows per pagination page
- enhancement: “DataTables JavaScript Features” section is visible by default
- enhancement: add value “all” to the four Shortcode parameters show_rows, hide_rows, show_columns, hide_columns
- enhancement: add WP-Table Reloaded screen icon to all plugin screens and the Top-Level menu entry
- enhancement: add two template tag functions that return the output instead of echoing it
- bugfix: fix problem with admin menu parent pages, make them ready for WP 3.0
- bugfix: import/replace replaces only data; name, description, options, and visibility settings are kept
- languages: added French, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, and Ukrainian
- a few minor changes, fixes, code clean-ups, and optimizations
Beta test now: WP-Table Reloaded 1.7
March 5th, 2010 by Tobias 6 comments »As I have done with previous versions in the past, there is now a public beta test of WP-Table Reloaded 1.7. The list of features is not as big as it was for 1.5 or for 1.6, but altogether I really like them and decided to make them available now.
» Read more: Beta test now: WP-Table Reloaded 1.7
Extension 6: Showing only rows that match a filter
March 4th, 2010 by Tobias 57 comments »Some people have approached me with an idea like this one: They have a rather large table which they maintain as a list for some sort of items (e.g. products). On certain pages however, they do not want to show the entire table, but e.g. only items with a certain keyword in a column.
That’s the use case for which the following filtering extension can be used. It adds another parameter filter to the Shortcode that gets passed one or more search terms (connected with a logical operator):
[table id=1 filter="word1&&word2" /]
Then, only those rows of the table are shown, that have columns that exactly match the search term(s). In the example, only rows where one column has the exact value “word1″ and one column has the exact value “word2″, will be shown.
» Read more: Extension 6: Showing only rows that match a filter
Extension 5: How to use PHP in table cells
February 14th, 2010 by Tobias 21 comments »This post in my WP-Table Reloaded Extension series should be very useful to a lot of people, taking into consideration the questions I receive on this. Using the code from below, you will extend WP-Table Reloaded so that PHP code in table cells will be parsed and executed. This is useful for dynamic content generation or integration of other plugins’ features.
To get started with WP-Table Reloaded Extensions, you should read the introduction and follow the included instructions. You will also find links to the other presented Extensions there.
» Read more: Extension 5: How to use PHP in table cells
