MCE Table Buttons for WordPress

MCE Table Buttons is a light weight WordPress plug-in that adds table editing controls to a third row in the WordPress WYSIWYG editor!

Description

Adds table editing buttons to a new, third row in the WordPress WYSIWYG editor.

A very light weight plug-in based on a slightly modified version of the table editor plug-in included with the full version of TinyMCE 3.2.7. Only includes English localization; please let us know if you would like additional localizations added.

Note that this should not be used with other plug-ins that significantly alter the editor’s default behavior. It is intended to be a simple, light weight solution for editors who only want to add table management to WordPress’ included editor.

Hoping to add the ability to hide the new table editing toolbar with the “kitchen sink” option in a future update.

Add a second block of HTML content to WordPress pages. A perfect solution for layouts with two distinct

content areas or “blocks”, such as a sidebar or two column view. When editing a page, a second WordPress

WYSIWYG content editor will appear beneath the standard page editing block.

The content in this second block can be used by adding the new widget (“Content Block 2″) to your sidebar,

or calling in the content in your template.

To echo its content on the page, use the function `the_content_2()`. To retrieve the content without echoing

it onto the page, use `get_the_content_2()`. Both functions optionally take a page ID parameter which, if

provided, will return the secondary content for that page. When no page ID is provided, the functions will

attempt to retrieve the secondary content for the current page.

A future update will include some configuration options, including an option to add the feature to posts

(the feature is “pages” only for now) and an option to specify a heading for the widg

As always, feedback and suggestions are welcome!

58 Thoughts Contributed to “MCE Table Buttons”

Allen May - February 2, 2011 at 10:56 am Reply
TO: William Mussatto – November 19, 2010 at 6:33 pm
I had the same problem but I’m running on an IIS windows server.

WordPress is running as a subdirectory off the server as our IntrAnet:
http:///wp

I put a Windows Shortcut in the SiteRoot folder [http://] pointing to [http:///wp/wp-includes]

So, I have a [http:///wp-includes] which points to [http:///wp/wp-includes] and it fixes my problem.

Thanks for setting me on the path for resolution.

-Allen
Tim - February 3, 2011 at 3:06 am Reply
Hello, I have 2.8.6. and I first started out coding the tables myself but that got old quick so I hunted a plugin and found WP Tables Reloaded. It was Ok but it still didn’t give me what I needed. So I found yours, installed it, deactivated WP Tables and activated yours but It didn’t show up anywhere.

I’m not sure why either. I was hoping it would work straight out of the box so I could get back to work but so far the box is empty.

Any ideas on what might be my problem would sure help.
Thanks
- Oomph - February 3, 2011 at 4:07 pm
  Not sure, but I don’t know that it’s ever been tested with 2.8.6. Any reason you’re not running a newer version of WordPress?
Oli - February 3, 2011 at 4:06 am Reply
Hi,

great addon, thank you! But do you know if it is possible to navigate in the tables with the tab key?
- Oomph - February 3, 2011 at 4:07 pm
  Not to my knowledge.
Tonya - February 10, 2011 at 10:56 am Reply
Hi, Thanks for the plugin! Though, I installed and activated it on WP 3.0.4 platform, cleared my cache and cookies and viewed in both FF and Chrome and still don’t see the table buttons in the WYSIWYG editor, even with the kitchen sink turned on. Do you know what I could be doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
- Oomph - February 16, 2011 at 10:01 am
  Not sure. Do you have another plugin that modifies the editor?
Steinar Olafsen - February 17, 2011 at 5:05 am Reply
Hi.
Thanks for a great plugin.
I only have one problem with it.
The “border 0″ doesnt work for me. I have a tiny dark border even if the code says border=0..
Have I done something wrong?
(I have only tested it in Firefox – letest version.
I use latest version of WP..
CG - June 28, 2011 at 5:13 am Reply
Great plugin,
how to use different localization?
- CG - June 28, 2011 at 7:00 am
  Found it! It’s so easy, I just have to copy the right *_dlg.js to table/langs/ or table-old/langs/ directory .
  
  For a future version it would be great to have already the language support (i got *_dlg.js file form /wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/table/langs)
Greg Stragnell - July 7, 2011 at 1:57 pm Reply
Love this plugin! Have been using WP Tables Reloaded which is very good but my clients wanted a better WYSIWYG table editor. This is excellent except that I am having two issues: Like Steinar above, even though the border is set to “0″ it is still showing a border around the outside of the table, although not internally. Secondly, setting the vertical alignment of the content in a cell does not seem to have any effect whether I set it for the row or for individual cells.
Joshua - July 15, 2011 at 3:54 pm Reply
Does your toolbar allow you to change the background color of table cells? That would be very handy. If not, is there another plugin you can recommend in order to take care of this?

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Josh
Shayne - July 26, 2011 at 9:34 pm Reply
Hi there, I recently came across this plugin and have been loving it but today ran into a challenge. I just updated to 3.2.1 on one of my blogs and wanted to install it there…thinking it would work as it had in previous versions, the install went as expected but no buttons show up when I show/hide the kitchen sink. Can you give me any suggestions as to how this works in the upgrade?
Peter Pavey - July 29, 2011 at 9:19 am Reply
Hi,
I have installed your plugin on my site but when I add a background colour it does not work the background stays white. Any ideas?
Peter Pavey - July 30, 2011 at 7:26 pm Reply
Hi Guys I sent you an email earlier on regarding the background remaining white after I had specified a colour. I have found that its not your plugin, but because I am running an Atahualpa theme and the theme was overriding the table settings in your plugin.