Tables in wordpress.com

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  bsnbiobanks · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 3:28 am

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  Hi there
  Is there are way that I can display a table of data into wordpress.com?
  I found a plugin (ultimate tables) that would allow me to have a table with filters/search capabilities, but I can only install it in wordpress.org

  Im very new to this, and would prefer to stay in the more supported environment of wordpress.com, but cant find a way to display a table of data

  Thanks for your help!!

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 6:43 am

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  You can only do this manually by hand-coding the table.

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  bsnbiobanks · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 6:44 am

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  Thanks raincoaster. Sounds tricky… think I’d prefer to tackle the data migration to wordpress.org :)

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 6:45 am

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  There are some online table builders, but the information in them will not be dynamic.

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  bsnbiobanks · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 6:47 am

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  I’ll have a look online then and see if Im feeling brave

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  frisiteg · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 11:27 pm

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  There are a couple really easy table generators that spell out exactly what you need to put into them. It’s like a copy and paste deal. You just need to manually put in your data.

  Here are a couple generators that I found to relatively easy to use.

  http://www.textfixer.com/html/html-table-generator.php

  http://www.textfixer.com/html/html-table-generator.phphttp://www.textfixer.com/html/html-table-generator.php

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  frisiteg · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 11:28 pm

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  Noticed I just put two of the same link- sorry about that!

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  bsnbiobanks · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 11:34 pm

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  Thanks very much! Although I don’t think that this table will be searchable??

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  timethief · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 11:35 pm

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  To create your own HTML tables see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/table-coding-for-wordpress-com-users/

  Another good reference link is http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp

  Note that if you use Windows then Windows Live Writer it has a tablemaker > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/ Note: Firefox users on Windows machines may need to clear the browser cache with ctrl+shift+del in order to get Firefox to recognize the formatting. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posting-of-word-files-with-tables?replies=6