Title: Database plugin for WordPress Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Database plugin for WordPress * [sweyhrich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweyhrich/) * (@sweyhrich) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/) * I am looking for a database plugin to use within WordPress, for the purpose of display of tabular data. The ability to do links from a cell would be valuable also. It is difficult to search for such a plugin in the WordPress plugin list, since “database” matches many other things that are specific to the WordPress database. * Does anything like this exist? Certainly MySQL is capable of handling the data I want to display; I’d like WordPress to utilize a MySQL database. Viewing 7 replies - 16 through 22 (of 22 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/?output_format=md) 2 * [whitephantom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitephantom/) * (@whitephantom) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-918711) * Thanks D, I’ve got it working fine now. Can you just have a quick read of what I’m doing and let me know if it all sounds kinda right? * I’m using WP as a CMS rather than a blog, so I’m creating pages, not posts. I’ve gone into the Page editor for the page that I want the table to appear on, and inserted the php code to display the table: insert_ext_db_table(). * I’ve also edited the plugin to change the headings to what I want, and I’ve changed the code that displays column3 and column4 because I want them to show the text that’s contained in those cols rather than the icons that were being shown (just commented out the code that was there and copied & modified the line that shows column2). * All this is working great. But I’m wondering now what happens if/when there’s an update to the plugin… what will happen to the changes I’ve made? * Thanks so much for your help! * [Driftless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driftless1/) * (@driftless1) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-918712) * Your welcome – you just caught me on an “online” day (I’m usually not this quick to respond.) * Sounds like you got the hang of it. * I guess the word “plugin” makes it sound a little tooo simple 😉 — Bear in mind that I worked this up as a “guideline” or “framework” for someone interested in doing what I struggled (at first) to do. * Since it doesn’t add any standard “plug-and-play” type functionality, and _MUST_ be customized extensively, easy updates are fairly impossible. (Already, this is an _extremely_ stripped down version of what I am using on my sites, each one different, that gives you some idea of what is possible.) * Add to that the fact that the code is fairly “bullet-proof” in that it uses simple php and mySQL practices and doesn’t rely on any WP specific code, it won’t need updating with WP changes. * [johnny_sozo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny_sozo/) * (@johnny_sozo) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-918714) * Any hints on how to get the search functionality in your example [http://www.ecologicalevolution.org/publications/](http://www.ecologicalevolution.org/publications/) * [Driftless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driftless1/) * (@driftless1) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-918715) * Johnny – * The scripts came as part of package written by Mark Schenk for Jabref ( [http://www.markschenk.com/tools/jabref/index.html](http://www.markschenk.com/tools/jabref/index.html)) and are used under the Creative Commons attribution license: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)– which allows you to use, modify and share, as long as you pay attribution back to the original author (as you can see I have done at the bottom of that page.) * I have excised the scripts and uploaded here: [http://lbell270.com/files/pub-scripts.zip](http://lbell270.com/files/pub-scripts.zip) which you can possibly bend to your will. I was lucky in that it did exactly what I needed “out of the box.” * Good luck. * [johnny_sozo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny_sozo/) * (@johnny_sozo) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-918716) * Thanks for the file driftless. I’ll give it a go * [Jason Pelker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpelker/) * (@jpelker) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-918729) * Two suggestions: * 1) Why not add tables to the WordPress database to get rid of the hacking element? * 2) Then, you could upload (and update) this to the plugin repository. * [Driftless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driftless1/) * (@driftless1) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-918730) * Hi jpelker – Thanks for the ideas. Thats one way to do it, and has been done I think (there are other plugins for linking a new table in the WP DB). This was a project designed specifically to link to a completely different DB hosted in a different place interacting with different people from the main WP DB. * I am sure there are also ways that it could be more streamlined / plug-in-able to make it repository suited, but since its really just a template/skeleton for a very specific need, I don’t see making that a priority. * Cheers! Viewing 7 replies - 16 through 22 (of 22 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/?output_format=md) 2 The topic ‘Database plugin for WordPress’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [database management](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-management/) * [db_tricks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/db_tricks/) * 22 replies * 10 participants * Last reply from: [Driftless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driftless1/) * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-918730) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics