Can't make tables in my blog

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  foxcleaners · Member · Apr 25, 2013 at 1:00 pm

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  Hi Wp’s,
  I made an official blog of my site here: foxcleaners.wordpress.com.
  The blog is still under development and i have many things to do,but i can’t find a way to create tables to style my blog.On my main site (which is also powered by WordPress) site foxcleaners.co.uk i have installed a plugin called TinyMCE Advanced but on the blog dashboard i can’t find the plugin link to install it.Am i missing something?I will be very greatfull if you offer me a solution.

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  justpi · Member · Apr 25, 2013 at 1:46 pm

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  On wordpress.com blogs we cannot install plugins.
  To create tables you need coding in the “Text” editor. You can study my tutorial:

  Table coding for wordpress.com users

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 25, 2013 at 1:55 pm

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  Just to be clear, there are different kinds of WordPress.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  You can probably copy the html for the table on your “powered by WordPress (.org)” site to paste into your WordPress.com site.

  If you have pictures in the table you may want to change that part of the code so they are uploaded to your wp.com library and linked from there.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 25, 2013 at 1:57 pm

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  One other thing to consider is that if you have duplicate content on multiple blogs you are harming your own search engine optimization.

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  foxcleaners · Member · Apr 25, 2013 at 3:12 pm

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  Thanks for your replays guys,
  I can try to create table on my main site,and then cut and paste to my blog.There another problem with the tables.When i create table with TinyMCE Advanced ( i made one with 5 rows and 2 columns),the images in the first column had different padding then the text in second column.The table looks awful.In the text editor looks very nice,but when i publish and save changes – looks completely different…You can see for your self here: http://foxcleaners.co.uk/carpet-cleaning-london/ ( the table with tick boxes images)
  Here is the code: <table style="width: 268px; height: 284px;" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1612" title="tick box" src="http://foxcleaners.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tick-box.jpg" alt="" width="50" height="50" /></td>
<td>Full insurance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img title="tick box" src="http://foxcleaners.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tick-box.jpg" alt="" width="50" height="50" /></td>
<td>Well trainded stuff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img title="tick box" src="http://foxcleaners.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tick-box.jpg" alt="" width="50" height="50" /></td>
<td>24 7 service</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img title="tick box" src="http://foxcleaners.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tick-box.jpg" alt="" width="50" height="50" /></td>
<td>Eco frindly products</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img title="tick box" src="http://foxcleaners.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tick-box.jpg" alt="" width="50" height="50" /></td>
<td>Fixed prices</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

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  justpi · Member · Apr 30, 2013 at 4:49 pm

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  My tutorial explains how to remove the borders as well as how to change the padding as well as correct the vertical alignment.
  So, for starters, your opening table tag should be just this:
  <table style="border:none;">
  and each opening td tag should be:
  <td style="vertical-align:middle;border:none;">

  You also need to remove all of these:
  <br />
  all of these:
  width="50" height="50"
  all of these:
  <a href="http://foxcleaners.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tick-box.jpg">
  and all of these:
  </a>