The ACF Table Field Add-on (a WordPress Plugin) enhances the functionality of the WordPress plugin “Advanced Custom Fields” (free and pro) with a new field type that allows to define, edit and display tables on a website.
$table_data = get_field('acf_field_name');
echo get_table( $table_data );What is a table field for?
- The table field is simply intended for editing and displaying table data. It can output a table, but can also be used to implement the output of charts or other table data based content.
- It also can better handle large amounts of table data in terms of performance and visual editing against a repeater field.
- The contents of table cells can optionally be edited using a WordPress editor, whose toolbar can also be customized programmatically. Media can also be integrated.
Functionalities
When editing data tables, the table field becomes useful where the ACF repeater field reaches its limits.
| Functionality | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-definable table | no | yes |
| Pre-definable table editing functionalities | no | yes |
| Pre-definable minimum and maximum amount of rows and columns | no | yes |
| Pre-definable style choices for the table and all parts of the table Adds definable custom CSS classes to the table elements. | no | yes |
| Custom column widths for the edditing table Can be predefined and disabled for editing. | no | yes |
| Table caption | yes | yes |
| Table head | yes | yes |
| Table foot | no | yes |
| Stub column | no | yes |
| Moving rows and columns | yes | yes |
| Table cell content types (simple text or configurable WordPress editor) | no | yes |
| Rowspan and colspan | no | yes |
| Automatic plugin updates | yes | yes |
| Support for third-party plugins (for example multilingual plugins) | no | yes |
| Support for REST-API (since v1.2.0) | yes | yes |
| Compatibility with the other plugin variant (since v1.2.0) (You can switch the fieldtype "Table" of the free version to "Table Pro" but not yet back to "Table".) | no | yes |
Field settings
The table can be fully predefined in the field settings by editing the default table. Minimum and maximum number of columns and rows can be determined. You can optional disable all aspects of the editing functionalities for the table, thead, tbody, tfoot, specific columns, rows and cells.
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Requirements
- WordPress from version 6.0
- Plugin ACF or ACF PRO in current version
- PHP from 7.4 up to 8.2+
Pricing
Understand:
This plugin is an Add-on to the plugin Advanced Custom Fields and doesn't work on its own!
You can change an existing field
with field type "Table" (free version) to field type "Table Pro".
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Single Site
Includes a license key with
1 activation
for a single site.49 € / year
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Project
Includes a license key with
3 activations.
One each for local, staging and production site.79 € / year
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Freelancer
Includes a license key with
30 activations.149 € / year
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Agency
Includes a license key with
300 activations.249 € / year
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The plugins merchant of record is Lemon Squeezy.
After purchasing, you will receive an email with a “View Order” link to your lemon squeezy order page. There you can download the plugin and manage your license and activations. You can also deactivate and activate the subscriptions there at any time.
If you lost your purchase email, you can get access to your order page at:
https://app.lemonsqueezy.com/my-orders/
If any problem occurs then please contact me.
Free version
Try the free table field version at wordpress.orgThe free version is its own field type and can be installed parallel to the pro version.
What´s next?
- Full documentation with guides
- Integrated WP GraphQL support
- Integrated table field shortcode
- PHP and JavaScript table data editing tools
- Optional default Gutenberg Table Block
- Support for more languages
- Developer API for extending field functionalities
- More content editing types
About
The ACF Table Field Add-on plugin was developed for personal use in September 2014 and found its way into the WordPress plugin repository in January 2015. It became somehow useful for many developers, but not useful enough. The functionality requested was beyond my capacity for a free plugin. Development of the Pro version started at the beginning of 2017. But it wasn't until May 2024 that it could finally be published.
Thanks, Johann