Inserting Tables Into WordPress

Writing by Blog Marketing Journal on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Comments (1)

There are times when you may need to insert a table into WordPress, either into a post or into a page. WordPress is not terribly effective when it comes to HTML and where one template will handle the code relatively easily, another template may not.

One of the strange things about WordPress is that after very carefully crafting a table you can go straight to publishing. Everything appears to look fine until you find a mistake and need to go back and edit. The moment you load that page into the editor the code goes crazy.

It seem WordPress can publish the code with little problem, the editor has a lot of problems in converting it back when you need to edit that page. There are several work arounds. The first, and most obvious, is to make sure everything is 100% right before publishing. Once published, leave it alone and don’t return to edit it again.

There are plugins that can help. One sets up a table section under the Manage menu. However it does not handle links within the table.

The third option, and in the longer the easiest, is to use MS Word. Create your table using Word and when you are ready to place into the page, use the ‘Paste from Word’ option that can be found under the ‘Advanced Toolbar’ button.

If you do need to re-edit that page and the code corrupts, make the alterations in word and simply delete everything from your WordPress page and re copy and paste. Works a dream every time with no coding and hassles.

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