TablePress Disabled – what to do next?

  • Resolved steerage250

    (@steerage250)


    1 month ago

    I briefly saw an error at the top of the WordPress dashboard that said TablePress had been disabled (?) due to an error.  It now does not appear in my list of installed Plugins.

    I have used FTP to copy the whole \plugins\tablepress folder to my hard drive. I have a recent automatically created database backup, and did a manual database backup today.

    I have installed and run the TablePress Extension: Fix Corrupted Tables, and it said all was good.

    I cannot reinstall tablePress because when I go to search for it as a new plugin, the little wheel just spins forever.

    I’m stuck

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  • Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    1 month ago

    Hi!

    Thanks for your post and sorry for the trouble!

    This sounds as if the update was incomplete, and maybe a file could not be copied. This then triggered a PHP error.

    To solve this, re-installing TablePress from a fresh download normally works.

    Now, I’m not sure why the installation via the Plugin Directory does not work, maybe there are some network issues. Therefore, I recommend manually downloading TablePress from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/tablepress.3.1.zip. Then, install this ZIP file via “Plugins” -> “Add New” -> “Upload plugin”. (The existing /wp-content/plugins/tablepress folder should be deleted first.)

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter steerage250

    (@steerage250)

    1 month ago

    Fantastic – thanks Tobias. TablePress is back and none of my tables were lost.

    Just for curiosity, I understand the tables are stored in the main WP database – in the “posts” table? I have browsed the table with phpMyAdmin, and there are many fields. Which field can I use to identify all the TablePress records?

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    4 weeks, 1 day ago

    Hi @steerage250,

    great to hear that this helped!

    Indeed, the tables are stored in the wp_posts database table. You can identify them by looking for the value tablepress_table in the post_type column. For export/backup purposes, I also recommend exporting all tables to the JSON format (in a ZIP archive) on the “Export” screen of TablePress, as TablePress (e.g. on a different site) can then directly import that file.

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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