Coming just a few days before WordPress 6.2, a new release of TablePress is now available. TablePress 2.1 can now be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory and will show up as an automatic update in the WordPress Dashboard for existing users shortly.
Update: TablePress 2.1.7 has been released with some fixes and nice enhancements. Find the details below!
TablePress 2.1 is a feature and enhancement update. Here are the highlights:
- Full compatibility with WordPress 6.2.
- On the “Edit” screen, you can now set the desired default cell size via the “Screen Options” tab, for maximum flexibility when editing large tables.
- The table editor’s context menu now also works when editing a cell.
- The table editor’s context menu and keyboard shortcuts now allow inserting images and links at the current cursor position and as well as turning existing text into a link.
- On the “Edit” screen, potential confusion is reduced by adjusting how individual sections can be collapsed.
- Tables that use scrolling are less likely to have misplaced header cells.
- The “Export” screen now has a button to quickly reverse a long list of tables, which can save time if you want to export a table from the end of the list.
- The “Last Editor” of a table is again determined correctly.
- More detailed error messages are shown on the “Edit” and “Import” screens.
- A few styling glitches on the different TablePress admin screens have been fixed.
- The “Edit” screen shows other available features, to make users aware of them (TablePress Free only.)
- The “Fixed Header” module now works more reliably with themes that use floating elements as well. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
- The “Alphabet Filtering” module has more options, like choosing a filtering column and alphabet, and is more robust on small screens. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
- The “Automatic Filtering” module also allows using commas in filter values now. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
- The “Column Filter Dropdowns” module now only disables selections if none can be made. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
- The “REST API” module now allows public and unauthenticaed requests, if desired. (TablePress Max only.)
- The “Server-side Processing” module is more robust when dealing with large tables that use many settings. (TablePress Max only.)
- Cleaned up, improved, and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation.
- Several external code libraries and build tools have been updated to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes.
Release announcement: TablePress 2.1.7
TablePress 2.1.6 fixes a few bugs and brings some nice enhancements. Updating is highly recommended!
- Some improvements for enhanced compatibility with WordPress 6.3 were added.
- A bug with the loading of the frontend features for site visitors in the context of the block editor was fixed.
- Formula evaluation: The HYPERLINK() function from Excel is now supported for creating clickable links.
- The Stack mode of the Responsive Tables feature now works better when column widths have been changed. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
- The Counter Column feature no longer requires sorting or filtering to be activated. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
- The Counter Column feature now takes into account pagination when Server-side Processing is used. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
- The Server-side Processing feature now handles edge cases with conflicting settings better. (TablePress Max only.)
- Cleaned up, improved, and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation.
- Several external code libraries and build tools have been updated to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes.
Release announcement: TablePress 2.1.6
TablePress 2.1.6 was withdrawn due to a bug. Its changes are part of TablePress 2.1.7.
Release announcement: TablePress 2.1.5
TablePress 2.1.5 fixes a few bugs and brings some nice enhancements. Updating is highly recommended!
- Early improvements for the upcoming WordPress 6.3 were added.
- The header cells on the “Edit” screen now show sorting arrow icons again, to indicate that columns can be sorted by a double-click.
- Cleaned up, improved, and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation.
- Several external code libraries and build tools have been updated to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes.
Release announcement: TablePress 2.1.4
TablePress 2.1.4 fixes a few bugs and brings some nice enhancements. Updating is highly recommended!
- A warning message that could show on some servers after importing files was fixed.
- A PHP deprecation notice was fixed, for improved compatibility with current versions of PHP.
- The “Row Filtering” module no longer returns wrong cache results when filtering from a URL parameter is used. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
- Cleaned up, improved, and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation.
- Several external code libraries and build tools have been updated to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes.
Release announcement: TablePress 2.1.3
TablePress 2.1.3 fixes a few bugs and brings some nice enhancements. Updating is highly recommended!
- Pasting text into table cells via the right-click context menu on the “Edit” screen now works as expected.
- The list of allowed CSS properties in “Custom CSS” has been extended to include new properties.
- The Server-side Processing feature now shows a loading animation while data is retrieved from the server. (TablePress Max only.)
- The TablePress REST API now only returns the “_links” field upon request, for improved performance. (TablePress Max only.)
- The TablePress REST API now caches the generated JSON schema, for improved performance. (TablePress Max only.)
- Cleaned up, improved, and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation.
- Several external code libraries and build tools have been updated to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes.
Release announcement: TablePress 2.1.2
TablePress 2.1.2 fixes a few bugs and brings some nice enhancements. Updating is highly recommended!
- The “Modules” screen now supports the Ctrl/Cmd + S keyboard shortcut for saving changes on the screen. (TablePress Pro and Max only.)
- Some erroneously removed CSS code for the TablePress admin screens was restored.
- The TablePress REST API now properly returns the table ID as well. (TablePress Max only.)
- Cleaned up, improved, and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation.
- Several external code libraries and build tools have been updated to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes.
Release announcement: TablePress 2.1.1
TablePress 2.1.1 fixes a few bugs and brings some nice enhancements. Updating is highly recommended!
- The “Plugin Options” screen now supports the Ctrl/Cmd + S keyboard shortcut for saving changes on the screen.
- Keyboard shortcuts for moving cells no longer erroneously trigger when navigiting inside an edited cell.
- A few typos in translatable strings were corrected.
- Some instances of invalid HTML code were fixed.
- Cleaned up, improved, and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation.
- Several external code libraries and build tools have been updated to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes.