Dynamic Tables

Description

Dynamic Tables is a powerful WordPress table block for creating responsive, presentation-focused tables with intuitive inline editing. Anyone familiar with spreadsheets will quickly understand how to navigate and format content.

Highlights:

• Fully responsive — tables maintain alignment and readability across all screen sizes
• Navigate and edit cells using familiar, spreadsheet-style keyboard controls and contextual menus
• Native Gutenberg block — no page builders or external dependencies required
• Build structured tables directly in the block editor with full control over rows and columns
• Precisely control column widths, row heights, header rows, and grid line styling
• Support for column-specific data types including text, numbers, and date/time values
• Built with multisite in mind, with per-site activation support

Whether you’re building comparison tables, product listings, directory lookup tables or publishing data-rich content – Dynamic Tables gives you a simple, elegant solution.

Key Features

• Gutenberg native block: Dynamic Tables
• Use arrow keys, tab, and enter to move between cells
• Menus and keyboard shortcuts support the ability to add, move and delete columns and rows
• Adjustable column widths and row heights
• Support for column specific content types (e.g., rich text, date, time, number, etc.)
• Header row support with formatting independent from the table body
• Inline editing of cell content
• Fully responsive: tables scale, wrap and adapt to mobile screens
• Clean semantic HTML output for SEO and accessibility
• Lightweight footprint and compatible with modern themes
• Table export for backup purposes

Why Choose Dynamic Tables over other table blocks?

Dynamic Tables is designed specifically for tables that require ongoing updates, consistent structure, and reliable responsive behavior. It is an ideal option if your use case goes beyond basic layout tables and into repeatable, data-oriented content. Dynamic Tables provides a purpose-built solution that stays fully native to the block editor.

Roadmap

Some roadmap highlights include:

• Adding more content types and formats for all rows in a column (e.g., checkboxes, images, links, buttons, etc.) without the need to format each cell
• Copy/paste support
• Undo/redo support
• Importing in common formats (e.g., csv, xlsx)
• Enhanced responsive formatting for mobile devices
• Integrating Dynamic Tables with WordPress search
• Support for front end interactivity to sort and filter tables
• Front end editing

For WordPress Developers

Dynamic Tables uses a unique architecture designed to provide power and flexibility for developers while remaining fully transparent to users. Table definitions and content are stored in custom WordPress database tables rather than post content, enabling a more structured and extensible data model. These are the primary building blocks:
* Table data and definitions are abstracted through block entity types
* Entities natively call RESTful APIs
* An underlying WordPress REST API service supports the loading and saving of table data
* The service interacts with a highly abstracted SQL layer which leverages WordPress WPDB
* The tables themselves leverage the newer CSS grid framework
* Much of the flexibility is derived from grid functionality that has been incorporated into mainstream web browsers in the past few years
* This framework provides responsiveness that doesn’t “break” table structure. Misaligned rows and columns, unexpected wrapping, and otherwise indecipherable tables have been beaten down.
* The API architecture will eventually support data stored in external files or web services. We’re considering these capabilities in our roadmap.