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Status of WP-Table Reloaded development

November 4th, 2009

As the development of my WordPress plugin WP-Table Reloaded continues, I’d like to push out a small status update message to all fellow plugin users and contributors.

I’m working on version 1.5 of the plugin, and I have a few new additions and changes planned: Probably the biggest changes are the extended interfaces for table editing and the newly added “DataTables” script. It will also be possible to write extensions to my plugin and you can export and import all tables at once.
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Now available: WP-Table Reloaded 1.4

July 31st, 2009

Some (hopefully) nice new features and many, many enhancements are now available to everybody in WP-Table Reloaded 1.4. The automatic update should be available through your WordPress admin area shortly.

A few people already got a head-start and participated in the beta tests. They already got to see these new features:

  • 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
  • “Insert Image” now allows insertion of images from/via the WP Media Library
  • 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

Additionally, most of the translations were updated and Japanese and Italian were added as new available languages. Thanks to all the translators, who again did a terrific job!

This release should make working with tables even easier. The “List of tables” now has the same look and feel as the regular Post or Page Overview pages of WordPress. The make it much easier to get the needed shortcode for inserting a table somewhere. You can also preview the table to check if it shows the correct data. This is especially useful, if you’re using the “Hide row/column” feature. This will allow you to mark rows and columns as hidden. Those will then not be shown when the table is output somewhere!

Another big feature are “Custom Data Fields”. Some users where asking for a way to store meta data for a table (e.g. the source, licence, or the creator of some data). For this, you can now add a “Custom Data Field” and show it (in the same way as tables) almost anywhere on your frontend using a shortcode.

And you will notice the minor enhancements: The table cell will now grow in size, when focussed. The “List of Tables” is now sortable (with the included “Tablesorter” script, by the way). The performance of the plugin was again greatly improved. And one nice little thing: You will now be able to see, when the last change was made to a table (this also includes the last editor).

Most people shouldn’t care, but this might be important for some users: Version 1.4 does no longer support WordPress 2.5! You will need to run WordPress 2.6 or newer to use the latest version of the plugin! I decided to drop support for WP 2.5, because it is outdated by over three major releases and lacks many nice functions. This always required extra work and testing. I therefore encourage all users of WP 2.5 (if there are any) to upgrade to the latest WordPress 2.8.2.

You can download the latest release 1.4 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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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 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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