Blog - wpDataTables - Tables and Charts WordPress Plugin

Click a column header, the rows rearrange, nothing loads. That’s the feature.

And it has worked in every browser worth supporting since July 2015, when Array.prototype.sort() reached universal availability per MDN’s browser-compatibility tables, though the algorithm running underneath kept changing for years after that.

Rows come out of the DOM ...

Bold text and neat column alignment mean nothing to a screen reader. It reads the markup, not the layout. So a table that looks perfectly organized can still announce a row of bare numbers with no indication of what any of them measure.

The fix is a programmatic link between each data cell and its header. Most of the work in table accessibility is picking which mechani...

WordPress already ships with everything you need to put a table inside a post. No install screen, nothing extra sitting in your updates list.

The block editor has a Table block built in. There’s also the Custom HTML block, which takes raw markup and leaves it alone, and for data that repeats or changes, a shortcode registered in functions.php does the job.

One t...

Google Forms draws a pie chart for every question the moment answers start arriving. It just refuses to let that chart leave the building. To get one onto a blog post, a landing page, or a client report, the responses have to land in a linked Google Sheet first, and the chart gets built there instead.

That detour is the whole job. Everything after it i...

A WordPress table that shows MySQL data is a SELECT query whose returned rows get printed as an HTML table. You can write the $wpdb code and shortcode yourself, or hand the query straight to a table plugin such as wpDataTables.

The table stores a query, not the rows. The data stays in MySQL.

As of October 2026, WordPress.org recommends M...