Row Grouping – TablePress

Group table rows by a common keyword, category, or title.

This feature module is part of the TablePress Premium plans.

Grouping rows in a table allows the site visitors to quickly and easily see the structure of the shown data.

Feature description

The following examples show some possible results. The grouping is done fully automatic from the table data.

Grouping by a single column

In this table with fictional data, the “Company” column was chosen as a “category”, so that all people belonging to that company are “grouped” under a common sub-heading:

Last Name	First Name	Company	Country	Birthday
Houston	Jorden	Adobe	Canada	05/03/1978
Gregory	Brynn	Adobe	Canada	01/13/1994
Banks	Travis	Adobe	Italy	05/04/1969
Harris	Merritt	Adobe	Italy	12/29/1989
Booker	Logan	Apple	India	12/16/1975
Valenzuela	Lunea	Apple	India	01/09/1966
Moran	August	Apple	United States	07/04/1986
Buckley	Stone	Cisco	Australia	09/11/1980
Lott	Lillith	Cisco	Australia	12/10/1978
Battle	Wylie	Cisco	United States	01/03/1988
Holland	Alyssa	Google	Canada	06/25/1976
Freeman	Cheyenne	Google	Germany	01/28/1981
Stein	Lawrence	Google	Germany	10/15/1960
Middleton	Dennis	Google	Spain	01/10/1992
Vasquez	Kelsey	IBM	Germany	03/31/1968
Cain	Lawrence	IBM	United States	05/16/1994
Logan	Shay	IBM	United States	09/13/1968
Curry	Mason	Mozilla	Australia	03/15/1969
Gilbert	Chaney	Mozilla	Canada	06/06/1970
Burgess	Quynn	Mozilla	France	09/24/1988

Grouping by multiple columns

It is also possible to designate multiple columns to achieve multiple levels of grouping. In this example, the “Country” column was chosen as a second level:

Last Name	First Name	Company	Country	Birthday
Houston	Jorden	Adobe	Canada	05/03/1978
Gregory	Brynn	Adobe	Canada	01/13/1994
Banks	Travis	Adobe	Italy	05/04/1969
Harris	Merritt	Adobe	Italy	12/29/1989
Booker	Logan	Apple	India	12/16/1975
Valenzuela	Lunea	Apple	India	01/09/1966
Moran	August	Apple	United States	07/04/1986
Buckley	Stone	Cisco	Australia	09/11/1980
Lott	Lillith	Cisco	Australia	12/10/1978
Battle	Wylie	Cisco	United States	01/03/1988
Holland	Alyssa	Google	Canada	06/25/1976
Freeman	Cheyenne	Google	Germany	01/28/1981
Stein	Lawrence	Google	Germany	10/15/1960
Middleton	Dennis	Google	Spain	01/10/1992
Vasquez	Kelsey	IBM	Germany	03/31/1968
Cain	Lawrence	IBM	United States	05/16/1994
Logan	Shay	IBM	United States	09/13/1968
Curry	Mason	Mozilla	Australia	03/15/1969
Gilbert	Chaney	Mozilla	Canada	06/06/1970
Burgess	Quynn	Mozilla	France	09/24/1988

Further details

Depending on the specific needs, it might make sense to then hide the columns that were used as categories using CSS code, to reduce the duplication of shown information. For that, you can e.g. add this to the “Custom CSS” textarea on the “Plugin Options” screen of TablePress:

.tablepress-id-123 .column-5 {
  display: none;
}Code language: CSS (css)

where 123 is the table ID.

Usage instructions

To use this feature with your tables, enable the “Row Grouping” module on the TablePress “Modules” screen.

To use this feature with your tables, activate it in the “Row Grouping” section on the table’s “Edit” screen. You can then configure it in the “Advanced settings” of that section.

The available settings for the Row Grouping module on a table’s “Edit” screen.

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