The screenshots section will be the most help for you: https://wordpress.org/plugins/osd-simple-table/screenshots/
Basically, wherever you want a table, just put the right syntax in the WYSIWYG editor.
A very basic example would be:
[table th=”1″]
Header 1|Header 2|Header 3;;
Row 1 Col 1|Row 1 Col 2|Row 1 Col 3;;
Row 2 Col 1|Row 2 Col 2|Row 2 Col 3;;
[/table]
Every table needs an opening [table] tag and a closing [/table] tag. In addition the “|” character splits a column and the “;;” characters end a row.
I hope this information was helpful!
Thanks for the reply but I’m still at a loss. I downloaded the plugin and it installed because I can see it under settings — OSD Simple Table. Clicking that sends me to a screen similar to the screen image you sent. There are 3 boxes shown but I’m not sure what it all means. Maybe this is not as easy as I thought so maybe I should giveup as I expected something like MS Word.
The plugin page for OSD Simple table is just a help page. In order to use OSD Simple Table, just enable it in your plugin settings. Then, in any WYSIWYG editor for any page or post you can put the [table][/table] shortcodes.
For example, on your home page, in the body section, you could paste:
[table th=”1″]
Header 1|Header 2|Header 3;;
Row 1 Col 1|Row 1 Col 2|Row 1 Col 3;;
Row 2 Col 1|Row 2 Col 2|Row 2 Col 3;;
[/table]
and a table would appear on your home page. If you are wanting a visual table editor like Microsoft Word, then this plugin is not what you are looking for. I hope this information was helpful.
Thanks for the help but I still don’t get it. I pasted the code above into KompoZer and all it did was paste the same commands as I copied.
I have also created a table in KompoZer and pasted it into WordPress. Unfortunately all the formatting I created changed when I pasted it so obviously tables for me are to avoided. There’s something going on that that isn’t playing nice with me. Thanks anyway.
