User submitted entry in table

Hi,

thanks for your post.

Unfortunately, I have to disappoint you. Submitting or editing data from the frontend is not possible, and will most likely not be possible in the future. This is something that is way out of the scope of TablePress. The idea of TablePress is to provide a quick way to show tabular data, but it is not designed to be a database system.
For your use case, I therefore recommend to look into a custom PHP/mySQL solution, with your own database table.

Regards,
Tobias

@aparente001: I would have suggested using custom post types depending on what your data submission was for ?? But I think you may already be using Guest Post as an alternative which is actually a lot less work.

Your idea is intriguing. Where can I read a simple how-to for your idea?

I’m using Guest Post for the posts, which are community announcements, but I was hoping to allow visitors to edit the tables (subject to moderation). Some of the tables have hundreds of entries.

If your data is effectively news, then a draft/submission sort of system (like Guest Post) would probably be the best approach ??

The context I am thinking of is from a project I worked on some time ago but it may not be suitable for your needs; I’ve put down some details in case it might help with your evaluation:

The project was a clan site which allowed game replay submissions by registered members, so the custom post type was ‘replay’ and the taxonomies included ‘Map’, ‘Mode’ and such.

The next step was to create the necessary custom post templates: the custom post type archive, the taxonomy archive, custom post type etc. to ensure the data was displayed correctly.

And then set the role/permissions to ensure that users could only edit their own submissions.

If I remember correctly, I didn’t end up using tables in the end to list all the replays (resources) but have done so on other projects so this would be possible.

Bearing in mind this project is from about two, maybe three years ago, this may not be the most effective (or time efficient) method of organising your content, but there are still plenty of guides online (Justin Tadlock always explains these things well) about custom post types you could consider referring to to get started.

Do let me know if you have any questions ??

p/s: Unfortunately I was not able to use WP-Table Reloaded (the predecessor of TablePress for those who might not know about this) for the project, but now that TP has come on leap and bounds and been re-written from the ground up, it is probably possible to work out something with custom post types and TablePress.

Hi,

yes, TablePress tables (i.e. their Shortcodes) will work in Custom Post Types as well. (Oh, and TablePress actually uses a Custom Post Type internally, for storing the table data).
However, this does not include editing/adding tables from the frontend.

Regards,
Tobias