Bloom Desktop

WordPress plugin · v1.0.0

Bloom Desktop Tables

Responsive data tables with a spreadsheet-style editor — paste from Excel or Google Sheets, import CSV or JSON, and let visitors sort, search and page through them.

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A lightweight, self-contained plugin for tables of data: price lists, specifications, schedules, results, directories. Create a table once, show it on as many pages as you like, and update it in one place.

Features

  • ✓Spreadsheet-style editor: type in the cells, or paste a range copied from Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets
  • ✓Keyboard navigation, range selection, copy, cut and paste, and insert, move or delete rows and columns
  • ✓Column types: text (basic HTML and shortcodes), number, link and image
  • ✓Numbers formatted for your site language, with optional decimals, currency or unit — and sorted as numbers
  • ✓Sorting by column, accent-insensitive search and pagination
  • ✓Rendered as real HTML on the server: readable by search engines and screen readers, visible without JavaScript
  • ✓Contained, wide, full-width or theme-width layouts
  • ✓Small screens: scroll sideways, or stack each row as a card
  • ✓Five styles (Default, Soft, Bordered, Minimal, Dark), three row heights, striped rows and row highlight
  • ✓One look for every table: header, row, stripe, text, border and accent colours plus corner radius — with a live preview, no CSS needed
  • ✓Import CSV, TSV or JSON (file or pasted), with the separator and encoding detected for you
  • ✓Replace a table's data from a file, keeping its column settings and shortcode
  • ✓Export any table to CSV, and duplicate tables
  • ✓Shortcode and Gutenberg block
  • ✓No jQuery and no third-party libraries on your site

Installation

  1. 1Upload the bloom-desktop-tables folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install it from the Plugins screen in WordPress.
  2. 2Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen.
  3. 3Go to Tables → Add New Table to create your first table, or Tables → Import to start from a file.
  4. 4Add the Table block to a page, or paste the table's shortcode.

Usage

Each table shows its shortcode in the table list and on its edit screen. Use it anywhere — including Elementor, Divi and WPBakery — or add the Table block in the editor.

[bloom_desktop_table id="123"]
id
The ID of the table to show.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use this with any WordPress theme?

Yes. The plugin is theme-independent and uses its own styles prefixed with bloom-desktop-table. It resets the theme's table styles inside its own tables, and follows the theme fonts.

How big can a table be?

Up to 5,000 rows and 100 columns. Every row is part of the page, so search engines see the whole table; for very large tables, split them by topic or turn on pagination.

How do I add a link or an image?

Set the column type to Link or Image. Then type the address, or [Text](https://example.com) to show your own text, or [Description](https://example.com/photo.jpg) to describe an image.

Can I change the colours?

Yes. Tables → Settings → Layout & Styles sets the style, colours, corner radius and row height of every table, with a live preview. Every colour is also a CSS variable, so a few lines of Additional CSS restyle every table — see Tables → Settings → Guide.

What happens to my tables if I delete the plugin?

Nothing, unless you enable “Delete all tables and settings when the plugin is deleted” in the settings. Deactivating the plugin never deletes data.

Privacy

  • The plugin does not connect to any external service.
  • It sets no cookies and stores nothing in the visitor's browser; tables are plain HTML rendered by your own site.

Changelog

1.0.0

  • Initial release

Support

Questions, bugs or feature requests? Email [email protected].