WP-Table Reloaded allows you the following (not necessarily a complete list):

• manage tables in your WP admin area
• show them in your posts, on pages or in text widgets using a shortcode or anywhere else in your theme using a template tag function (see Usage)
• possible table features include (may be enabled for each table individually)
  • any content, even HTML, you like
  • table structure can contain colspanned and rowspanned cells
  • first row will be table headline (HTML tag <th>)
  • last row will be table footer (HTML tag <th>)
  • alternating row colors
  • row highlighting (when hovered with the mouse)
  • print table’s name above or under the table
  • print table’s description above or under the table
  • use the DataTables JavaScript library to allow pagination, sorting, and filtering of table data (see Demo)
  • individual styling of your table via CSS Styling possible (this may be used for different column widths or text-alignment)
• functions in the backend include:
  • add/create tables (by manual input)
  • import a table (from CSV, XML or HTML files, URLs or direct input)
  • export/save/backup a table to these formats
  • import tables from old WP-Table plugin (if found)
  • edit the table data and structure (add/insert/delete/move/swap/hide columns/rows, sort columns)
  • easily add links or images to your table (from the Media Library)
  • copy/duplicate and delete tables
  • easily insert a table in to your posts/pages using a button in the editor toolbar
  • preview the table

You can see a demo table here, which was output here with the shortcode [table id=1 /]. The data was entered in the backend. Enabled options are the DataTables library (click on a column header to sort, or use the pagination buttons, or type in a search word), “alternating row colors”, “row highlighting”, “table head”, “table footer”, “print name”, and “print description”.

Demo Table

This	is	a	demo	table!
And	I	am	the	footer :-)
You	can	present	data	here.
Like	numbers:	1	2	3
Or	even	html:	Strong	emphasized
a link	or	an	image:

Here’s a table that shows the possibilities of combining cells with “rowspan” and “colspan”:

The Changelog table was also created with this plugin. For even more examples, have a look at www.poorpigs.de (my baseball club’s website). There you can see tables that are managed with WP-Table Reloaded in the sections Spielplan and Spieler (right below “Baseball-Team”) and in the sidebar.

A couple months ago, I wanted to show tables (of baseball results and standings) on a WordPress powered website. I didn’t want do mess with HTML tables in the code (as they are very hard to maintain and manage), so I found the plugin WP-Table by Alex Rabe which allows comfortable editing of the data in WP’s admin area and easy usage of the table in blog posts or on pages. I used it for quite some time, but found some miscues. Thus, I decided to try to write a WordPress plugin myself and the idea to completely rewrite WP-Table was born. So I did some reading on WordPress plugin development and decided to use some of the new WordPress techniques from WordPress 2.7 through 2.9. And now, after a few months of programming, I’m very proud of WP-Table Reloaded :-)

Installation
The easiest way is through your WordPress Admin area. Go to the plugin section and search for “WP-Table Reloaded” in the WordPress Plugin Directory. Then you can click “Install” and the following steps will be done for you automatically. You just have to activate the plugin (step 5).

Manual Installation works just as for most other WordPress plugins:

1. Download the plugin’s zip file
2. Unzip the file (you’ll get a folder called “wp-table-reloaded”).
3. Upload that folder to the “wp-content/plugins/” folder of your WordPress installation
4. Go to the Plugins Page in your WP Admin area
5. Activate the plugin “WP-Table Reloaded”

Uninstalling / Deactivation
Just deactivate the plugin and delete the folder “wp-table-reloaded”. You might want to delete all tables and plugin options by clicking the appropriate button or enabling the “Uninstall upon Deactivation” option on the WP-Table Reloaded options screen before deactivating the plugin.

Update
The plugin will notify you, if there is an update available. The easiest way is then to “update automatically” using the provided WordPress function.

To manually update, just deactivate the plugin, delete the old plugin folder and replace it by the new one, extracted from the downloaded zip-file. Then activate the plugin again. Make sure that the option “Uninstall upon Deactivation” ist not checked or you’ll lose all your data!

After installing the plugin, you can add, import, export, edit, copy, delete, … tables via the “WP-Table Reloaded” screen which appears under the “Tools” section in your Admin menu.
Everything should be self-explaining there.
To show one of your tables in a post, on a page or in a text widget just include the shortcode [table id=<the-ID> /] to your post/page/text-widget, where <the-ID> is the ID of your table (can be found on the left side of the “List Tables” page.)

You can click on the “Table” button in the post/page editor to see a list of your tables. If you click “Insert” then, the correct shortcode will be inserted for you.

To insert a table somewhere else in your theme, you can use the Template Tag function. Please see the Documentation for more information on this.

After that you might want to change the style of the table. Just enter your CSS style information into the textarea on the “Plugin Options” screen.

You may also add certain features (like Sorting, Pagination, Filtering, alternating row colors, row highlighting, print name and/or description, …) by checking the appropriate options on the “Edit table” screen.

The plugin contains the following languages (should be enabled automatically, if your WordPress language is set up correctly in your wp-config.php):

• English (by me)
• Brazilian Portuguese (thanks to Rics)
• Czech (thanks to Separatista)
• Finnish (thanks to Jaakko)
• German (by me)
• Hindi (thanks to Outshine Solutions)
• Italian (thanks to Gabi)
• Japanese (thanks to Yuuichi)
• Slovak (thanks to 55.lukas)
• Spanish (thanks to Matías Halles)
• Swedish (thanks to ZuperZed)

I’d really appreciate it, if you would translate the plugin into your language! Using Heiko Rabe’s WordPress plugin “Codestyling Localization” that really is as easy as pie. Just install the plugin, add your language, create the .po-file, translate the strings in the comfortable editor and create the .mo-file. It will automatically be saved in WP-Table Reloaded’s plugin folder. If you email me the .mo- and .po-file, I will gladly include them into future plugin releases, so that other users may enjoy the plugin in their language, too. There is also a .pot-file available to use in the “languages” subfolder.

More technical information can be found on the Documentation page. It contains explanations of the Shortcodes, the Template Tag functions, Table and Plugin Options, CSS selectors (for styling), import/export formats and the JavaScript libraries. Please read this page, the FAQ and the Documentation page thoroughly before asking for support. Thank you!

For help or support questions, especially with CSS questions, please use the WordPress Support Forums. Please open a new topic there (with the tag “wp-table-reloaded”). Please make sure, to read the FAQ and the Documentation first! Thank you!

If you find a bug or have a feature request, please tell me about it by email.
You would help a lot if you could add an issue ticket in the issue tracker on Google Code.

To see older support request, please see the Support page. It contains all older comments that concern the plugin.

Thanks go to Alex Rabe for the original WP-Table plugin,
Allan Jardine for the DataTables JavaScript library,
Christian Bach for the Tablesorter jQuery Plugin,
Sören Krings for the Tablesorter extension,
for donations:
· PaulaC
· Michael Sumeracki
· Robert Raymond
· Vinny Troia
· in|ad|ae|qu|at (zintzen.org)
· iPhoneclub.nl
· swiss-hope-international.ch
· Bob Lew
· vandercookpress.info
· Nils Monahan
· The Alexander S. Lawson Archive
· Yvon Kruger
· Chuck Thompson
· L. L.
· Cathy Schouten (webgarden.ca)
· brownstonepark.com
· businessforhome.org
· Jeffrey Harding (dailycapitalist.com)
· Michael Arntz
· Brian Prosserman
· D. S.
· Martin Codina (fineestateliquidation.com)
· Kim Søiland
and all translators, contributors, supporters, reviewers and users of the plugin!