TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy vs Animation Kit – Animated Backgrounds & WebGL Effects

Boost your website with feature-rich tables that your visitors will love! TablePress is the most popular and highest-rated WordPress table plugin. Easily create, edit, and manage beautiful and modern data tables, from simple price lists to searchable directories, product and model tables, inventories, schedules, and research datasets. Add live sorting, pagination, searching, and other interactive features that help visitors find what they’re looking for on any device. Use any type of data and enrich your tables with images, links, and even math formulas. Import and export tables from/to Excel, CSV, HTML, and JSON files or URLs, including spreadsheet data from Google Sheets, Excel Online, and files stored on Dropbox or OneDrive. Embed tables into posts, pages, or other site areas using the block editor, an Elementor widget, or Shortcodes. All with no coding knowledge needed! Even more great features for you and your site’s visitors and priority email support are available with a Premium license plan of TablePress. Go check them out! Common use cases TablePress will handle a wide range of tables, from simple price lists to searchable directories and large datasets. Popular examples include: Product and model tables Service and price lists Directories and listings Schedules and timetables Participant and member lists Inventories and collections Comparison tables Research and statistical data Accessible and SEO-friendly tables TablePress creates accessible HTML tables whose content can be searched by visitors, WordPress search, and search engines alike. Interactive features like sorting, filtering, and pagination include accessibility enhancements for screen readers and other assistive technologies. This makes it easy for visitors to find relevant information, whether they are browsing a large directory, searching a product table, or using your site’s search function. More information Visit tablepress.org for more information, take a look at example tables, or try TablePress on a free test site. For latest news, follow @TablePress on Twitter/X or subscribe to the TablePress Newsletter. How to use TablePress After installing the plugin, you can create and manage tables on the “TablePress” screen in the WordPress Dashboard. To insert a table into a post or page, add a “TablePress table” block in the block editor or a widget in the Elementor page builder and select the desired table or use Shortcodes with other page builders. Beginner-friendly step-by-step tutorials, guides, and how-tos show how to achieve common and popular tasks with TablePress. You can find examples for common styling changes via “Custom CSS” code on the TablePress FAQ page. You may also add features like sorting, pagination, searching, filtering, alternating row colors, row highlighting, and more by enabling the corresponding options on a table’s “Edit” screen. Premium features Need additional functionality for larger tables or advanced use cases? Premium license plans for TablePress add features such as: Options for responsive tables Advanced filtering and search Fixed table headers and columns Automatic periodic imports Custom styling options And much more Priority email support is also included. Check out the details on the TablePress website.

Animation Kit lets you add a moving WebGL background to any WordPress page — a particle field, an aurora wash, a sweeping radar pulse — from a single admin screen. No theme editing, no shortcodes, no CSS. Pick an effect, tune the colors and motion, save, and your visitors see a smooth canvas layer behind your content. The plugin is builder-agnostic: it renders at the document level, so it cooperates with classic themes, block themes, Elementor, Bricks, WPBakery, and Gutenberg page builds without needing a per-builder integration. How it works You get a dedicated Background Animation screen inside the WP admin. From there: Pick one of 13 free effects (full list below). Adjust the live controls — colors, speed, density, opacity, z-index, position. Toggle the background on. The canvas appears site-wide. The free tier targets the whole website (single configuration). Pro adds multiple stacked configurations and per-page placement rules. Effects included in the free version Antigravity — Magnetic particle field that reacts to pointer movement. Good for tech, SaaS, and sci-fi-style hero sections. Aurora — Flowing color washes. Suits portfolios, night-mode brands, and creative agencies. Color Bends — Multi-stop color gradient with noise warp and slow rotation. Works as a brand backdrop. Grid Scan — Animated grid with a sweep line. Tech, cyber, and dashboard aesthetics. Line Waves — Concentric line waves with color cycling. Graphic, poster-like. Liquid Ether — Fluid simulation that ripples and bends with cursor movement. Most “wow” of the set. Particles — Drifting particle systems with configurable count, color, and spread. Pixel Blast — Animated pixel patterns (square, circle, triangle) with optional click-ripples. Retro and game-style. Plasma — Classic plasma shader with direction, scale, and color. Soft demoscene feel. Prism — Rotating 3D prism with bloom. Crystalline, futuristic. Radar — Sweep-style radar visualization with ring and spoke controls. Soft Aurora — Lower-intensity aurora with two-color gradient. Easier on small-screen viewers. Light Pillar — Vertical light column with adjustable glow, width, height, and rotation. Good for landing-page focal points. Each effect has its own controls; you only ship the code for the effect you enable (lazy-loaded chunk per effect, not a single fat bundle). Use cases Hero sections that need motion without an animated video. Landing pages where you want a moving backdrop behind a CTA. Portfolios and agency sites that want a signature visual. Conference, course, and event sites that want a “live” feel. Dark-mode marketing pages where Aurora or Light Pillar adds depth. Performance and Core Web Vitals Animation Kit is built around lazy loading. The frontend script only ships when a background is enabled; the heavy rendering code (Three.js, OGL, the per-effect shader) is split into separate chunks loaded on demand after DOMContentLoaded. On mobile, particle counts and pixel ratios are clamped automatically. Compatibility filters are registered for WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, Autoptimize, W3 Total Cache, and WP Fastest Cache so their delay-JS / combine-JS / minify rules don’t break the lazy chunks. Accessibility The canvas wrapper is aria-hidden="true" and pointer-events: none — assistive tech ignores it, and visitors can still click links, forms, and menus through it. prefers-reduced-motion: reduce is honored: when the user’s OS preference is set, the WebGL mount is skipped entirely. If the preference is toggled off during a session, the animation mounts at that point. Animation Kit Pro When the free tier stops fitting, Pro adds: Multiple background configurations stacked or rotated on the same site. Per-page placement rules — specific pages, CSS selectors, or HTML element targets. Premium roadmap access and priority support. Pricing and details: https://wpxero.com/plugins/wpxero-animation-kit/pricing