[Plugin: WP-Table Reloaded] displaying a table per data row

Hi Gunnar,

thanks for your question.

What you are trying to achieve is not possible with WP-Table Reloaded, and I do not intend to add it as a feature. I value your suggestion, but in my opinion, this exceeds the goal and score of the plugin as I see it. The plugin was designed to provide a quick and easy way to display static data in table form.
Adding capabilities to also work with dynamic data sources would not only make the plugin harder to maintain, but also harder to work with. I also doubt that it would be off a benefit for many users, as it is usually much easier and more reliable to simply use a custom solution (i.e. programming with an own database table) to achieve such dynamic feature.

A piece of CSS code for this would be quite nice indeed, but unfortunately I’m not aware of such a solution. I could imagine that it’s possible with JavaScript, but then, a solution on the PHP would be much nicer.

Best wishes,
Tobias

Hi Gunnar,

yes, I understand what you mean. With “dynamic” I did not mean to refer to the actual data, but more to the process of displaying it. Basically you just want to use WP-Table Reloaded as a data storage with a custom form of displaying the data from it, and I would describe that as “dynamic”. However, exactly that is not possible with the plugin, because there is no “query language” to extract the data from the table to “dynamically” re-structure it in a different layout. Instead, you should use a custom mySQL table and some PHP code, as they offer that functionality. Another idea might be to use a plugin filter and (by a custom WordPress plugin) rewrite the table output to a custom format. That would require some text replacing and maybe regular expressions.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi Gunnar,

indeed, Custom Post Types could also be an option. Then you would create a new post for each album, where the album data (title, artist, year, etc.) ist stored as “meta data” in “custom fields” for each post.
Displaying the posts is then done within “The Loop”.
However, you are likely not going to find a readily usable plugin for that, but you will need to develop a custom plugin that creates the Custom Post Type. For a start, I suggest this article: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress

Best wishes,
Tobias

Hi,

nice plugin, thanks for the hint!

You won’t have so much luck with the actual displaying of the posts though. As far as I understand Custom Post Types, a plugin can not really show the posts somewhere without the theme being modified to also include the new Custom Post Type in its “Loop”. Also, you will have to write some code, so that your post meta data is displayed as a table.

Best wishes,
Tobias