TablePress 3.2 is a feature, stability, maintenance, and compatibility update. Here are the highlights:
Improved Frontend Table Performance
- Tables and their interactivity features are more accessible for visitors with disabilities and users of assistive technologies, with improved labelling and easier-to-use keyboard navigation!
Many New Features and Enhancements for Existing Premium Features
- Fixed Header
- When combining the Fixed Header Row with Horizontal Scrolling, the header will scroll properly as well.
- Server-side Processing
- It is now possible to use the “Column Filter Dropdowns”, “Individual Column Filtering”, and “Inverted Filtering” feature modules while benefitting from the fast loading of large tables from the server!
- Advanced Access Rights
- The user interface now allows filtering for users and tables, to quickly find the right combination!
- Only user roles that are allowed to edit tables will be shown, making the overview much more lightweight!
- Index or Counter Column
- The rendering performance has been improved for large tables.
- Row Order and Column Order
- The “Random” option is now shown in the block’s feature section’s dropdown!
- Advanced Pagination Settings
- The “Show more” button shows better scrolling behavior when using it with long tables!
- Column Filter Dropdowns
- The filtering dropdowns can now be used with Server-side Processing, making it a great choice for large tables!
- Individual Column Filtering
- Besides text input fields, the dropdowns are now also supported when using Server-side Processing!
- Inverted Filtering
- Large tables now benefit from speed improvements, when using Server-side Processing and Inverted Filtering!
Behind the scenes
- Several minor bugs and inconsistencies have been fixed and improved!
- Cleaned up and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation.
- Updated external libraries to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes.
- Automated code compatibility checks and build tools simplify chores for easier development.
- Improved support for PHP 8.4.
Premium versions
- Even more great features for you and your site’s visitors and priority email support are available with a Premium license plan of TablePress. Go check them out!
For more information please see the announcement at https://tablepress.org/release-announcement-tablepress-3-2/.