Posts Table with Search & SortbyBarn2 Media

Posts Table with Search & Sort is a WordPress table plugin which helps site owners organize WordPress posts into sortable and filterable tables, making it easy for your audience to find the content they need.

Visitors can easily filter content by date, category or author – making this WordPress table plugin highly adaptable to different use cases.

Install this plugin to organize your WordPress posts into simple, searchable, and visibly appealing tables. It includes pagination and responsive layouts for smaller screens as standard.

To get started with this WordPress table plugin, simply add the shortcode [posts_data_table] to any page or widget.

Posts Table with Search & Sort (free) includes:

• Create sortable and filterable post tables.
• Choose any or all of the following columns: post ID, title, content, categories, tags, author, or date.
• Streamlined content using pagination.
• 100% responsive to different screen sizes.
• Display WordPress blog posts in a simple HTML table.
• WPML compatible for international translations.

Posts Table Pro – our premium version adds lots more functionality:

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• Display posts, pages, or any custom post type (e.g. documents, audio/music, courses, products, staff and member directories, publications, articles, books, etc).
• Add extra columns: image, excerpt, status, or any custom field or taxonomy.
• WordPress media embed support, including audio and video galleries or media playlists.
• Showcase featured images with lightboxes.
• Dropdown filters for taxonomies, categories, and tags.
• Select posts by custom field, term, date, ID, and more.
• Advanced Custom Fields support.
• Enable AJAX to reduce server load.
• 100% responsive, with options to control how behaviour on different screen sizes and devices.
• Support for advanced use cases such as how to create compelling tables for your blog, a WordPress document library, member directory, audio gallery, or an intranet for your organization.
• And much more…

WooCommerce Product Table – create product tables from your WooCommerce store:

• Include Add to Cart buttons, quantity, price, reviews, stock level, categories, tags, weight, dimensions, and more.
• Full support for WooCommerce products and stores.
• Create custom order forms which increase your conversion rate!
• Support for advanced use cases such as restaurant ordering systems, events calendars, and advanced order forms.

Translations for Posts Table with Search & Sort itself are currently provided for French, Spanish, German and Greek. This data-table plugin is WPML-compatible for content translation, so if you’re using WPML, you’ll be able to display post tables in whichever language you have set up.

We make use of the jQuery DataTables library to power the searching and sorting features.

See our demo for more information, or examples of the plugin in action below.

How to create your own WordPress Post Tables

You can use Posts Table with Search & Sort to display your content in searchable and sortable tables. This has a huge range of use cases, from a simple archive of your posts, to previews of your content, to sorting by author, tags, date, and more.

To list blog posts in a table, simply enter the shortcode [posts_data_table] to any WordPress page, post, or text widget. The easiest way to set your columns and other options is on the plugin settings page at Settings > Posts Table With Search & Sort. These global settings will affect all the posts tables throughout your WordPress site.

You can also add options directly to the shortcode. This allows you to configure each table individually – for example, in order to show different columns in each table, or to list posts from specific categories. Here are a couple of examples of shortcodes you can use:

1. List your posts in a table with 3 columns (title, content, and date columns) showing the first 10 words of each post in the content column: [posts_data_table columns='title,content,date' content_length="10"]
2. List posts in a table with with 4 columns (post ID, title, tags, and author columns), and will be sorted by date in ascending order (oldest posts first): [posts_data_table columns='id,title,tags,author' sort_by="date" sort_order="asc"]
3. List posts in a table, with rows on one line by using the parameter wrap=false. If selected columns no longer fit in the table, then a “+” icon will appear to the left of each row to allow access to the rest of the data: [posts_data_table wrap="false" rows_per_page="5"]
4. List posts in a table, sortable by any column name (id, title, date, author, category or content). If the column does not appear in your table, it will be added as a hidden column at the end, so the ordering still works as expected. This example shortcode sorts each post by title. It also shows how to use the content_length option to set the number of words displayed in the content column: [posts_data_table sort_by="title" columns="date,author,title,content" content_length=5 rows_per_page="5"]
5. List post in a table, with automatic search and filtering on click using links in the table. This free version is limited to post categories or author links, but our Pro version extends search on click functionality to post tags and custom taxonomies. Use the following shortcode: [posts_data_table sort_by="title" columns="date,author,title,content" content_length=5 rows_per_page="5"]

You can see all of these in action on our demo site, and do even more with Posts Table Pro, our premium plugin!

Popular use cases for Pro take advantage of advanced features, including support for custom post types, advanced filtering, and media embed support, letting you build your own WordPress document library, create a WordPress file manager, or create a WordPress events table.

Here’s the full list of shortcode parameters you can use for this data-table plugin:

You can see some practical examples of how to build your own Post Tables above, and below you’ll find a full list of the shortcode parameters you can use to customize the output of your own Posts Tables. Remember, most of these options can also be set globally on the plugin settings page at Settings > Posts Table With Search & Sort:

• columns – the columns you’d like to show in your table. This can be any of the following (comma-separated): id, title, content, category, tags, author, and date. Defaults to title,content,date,author,category.
• rows_per_page – the number of posts to show on each page of results. Set to false to disable pagination. Defaults to 20 rows per page.
• category – restrict the table to this category only. Use the category ID or ‘slug’ here, NOT the name of the category. You can find the slug in the Posts -> Categories menu.
• tag – restrict the table to this tag only. Use the tag ‘slug’ or ID here. You can find the slug in the Posts -> Tags menu.
• author – restrict the posts in the table to the specified author. Use can use author name (user_nicename), author ID or a comma-separated list of IDs.
• post_status – display posts with this post status (draft, pending, publish, future, private or any). Defaults to publish.
• sort_by – the column to sort by. Defaults to date. If the column you want to sort by isn’t shown in the table, it will be added as a hidden column. This means, for example, that you can sort by date without actually showing the date column.
• sort_order – whether to sort ascending (asc) or descending (desc). If you order by date, it will default to desc (newest posts first).
• search_on_click – whether to enable automatic searching for categories and authors when clicking on links in the table. Default: true.
• wrap – whether the table content wraps onto more than one line. Set to false to keep everything on one line or true to allow the content to wrap. Default: true.
• content_length – the number of words of post content to show in the table (if you’ve included the content column). Defaults to 15 words.
• scroll_offset – advanced: the table scrolls back to the top each time you navigate forward or backwards through the list of posts. This value controls the ‘offset’ for the scroll. For example, if your site uses a sticky header you can adjust the scroll amount here to compensate. Enter a whole number (e.g. 50) or set to false to disable scrolling to top.

And, if you need even more features, then have a look at Posts Table Pro.

Thank you for using our WordPress table plugin, and enjoy your Post Table ?