WordPress Frontend Table Editor: Easily Create Frontend Editable Tables in WordPress

Tablesome Pro now has frontend editing capabilities.

Do you want users to be able to add, edit, change, and remove table rows in the WordPress frontend tables? Want to make a datatable with editable fields in WordPress? Do you want frontend users to be able to manage their own table rows with data?

You could have an online table on your website where multiple team members can contribute collaboratively. You could also have an online table with data that is unique to each user.

As a result, you may want each user to be able to view, edit, or delete their own data in the table. Let’s look at how to make frontend user editable tables in WordPress.

How to edit WordPress tables from Frontend?

Tables in WordPress are typically generated using HTML or the Gutenberg Table Block. These tables can only be edited through the WordPress dashboard (admin area).

To get frontend editing capabilities, you’d need to install a WordPress table plugin. You can use a plugin like Tablesome to edit a WordPress table from the frontend.

Tablesome Frontend Table Editor Plugin for WordPress

The Tablesome plugin allows you to create and manage tables from the WordPress admin area, and then embed them using a shortcode on your site. You can also use the plugin to allow users to edit the table data from your site’s frontend.

Aside from frontend table editing, it includes features like editing permission management and column locking, which give the administrator control over who has access to what.

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Frontend Editing for Your Online Data Tables

Table Data Editing Permissions

You can grant users the ability to edit or delete their own table data, or you can grant editing permissions based on user roles.

You can configure the settings so that any logged-in user can only see, add, edit, and delete their own rows. Any logged-in user with a specific user role (which you can specify in frontend editing) can add data to the table and then manipulate it later.

Editing permissions can be selected for each action such as View, Add, Edit, and Delete. Permissions can be added based on User Roles (read more to understand WordPress user roles).

Editing Table Column Options

Then there are the column editing options, which allow you to specify which table columns users can edit. You could also restrict users to only entering certain predefined values in the table columns.

Displaying Filtered Table Data:

You can filter the table before it is loaded on a WordPress frontend page. So you can filter the table for each user so that a user gets to see only the data that the individual user has added.

You could also filter table data based on time such as when the data was created or updated.

WordPress Table Frontend Editor – Quick Video Tutorials

How does Tablesome’s Frontend Table Edit work?

• Create your table in Tablesome by going to Tablesome →  Create New Table
• In the table, name add the necessary table columns and then add your data by adding new table rows.
• Then on the settings portion towards the left side, go to Frontend Settings tab
• Here you can choose to disable / enable frontend editing for this table
• Choose which of the editing options to enable on the frontend – Edit, New and Delete buttons.
• Below the editing options you have a list of editing permissions, which can be used in two ways. Users with specific user roles could edit the table, or the user could only edit their own data.
• Then choose which table columns to allow to be edited
• Then save the table.

Log in as another user with frontend editing permissions to the site and see if the frontend table editing works as expected.

 

 

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