TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy vs XML Sitemap & Google News

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.

Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap. Compatible with WordPress Multisite, Polylang and WPML and most caching plugins. There are no static files created. NEW: Connect your site to your Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors. NEW: Submit your sitemaps right from the WordPress admin. Yes, you read that correctly: Sitemap Pings are back! Features Control the WordPress core XML Sitemaps. Add a Google News Sitemap. Connect your site to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors. Submit/ping sitemaps to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools for fast reindexation. Add custom robots.txt rules. XML Sitemap Option to disable the main XML Sitemap Index. Select sitemaps to include in the sitemap index: post types, taxonomies, authors and google news. Select which (custom) post types, taxonomy archives and users to include in respective sitemaps. Exclude specific posts, pages and custom post type posts from sitemaps. Add a custom sitemap with external URLs. Add external sitemaps. Choose the sitemap server/generator: WordPress core or Plugin. Plugin server: Include featured images or attached images with title. Choose to update Last modification date only on post modification (default) or also on comments. Sitemap stylesheet templates can be overridden by theme template files. Google News Sitemap Optionally activate the Google News Sitemap. Includes the required news sitemap tags: Publication name, language, title and publication date. Set a News Publication Name (site name by default). Supports custom post types. Limit inclusion of certain post categories. Google News Sitemap stylesheet template can be overridden by theme template files. Pro Extensions XML Sitemap Advanced Sitemap notifier: Automatic XML Sitemap Index update notification to Google and Bing. Sitemap notifier log Set a custom sitemap URL (slug) Exclude posts and pages in the Bulk Editor. Optionally include empty taxonomy term and empty author archives Yoast SEO and Rank Math compatibility: exclude posts set to noindex Google News Advanced Sitemap norifier: Automatic Google News Sitemap update notification to Google. Sitemap notifier log Multiple post types – Include more than one post type in the same News Sitemap. Keywords – Add the keywords tag to your News Sitemap. Keywords can be created from Tags, Categories or a dedicated Keywords taxonomy. Stock tickers – Add stock tickers tag to your News Sitemap. A dedicated Stock Tickers taxonomy will be available to manage them. Privacy / GDPR This plugin does not collect any user or visitor data nor set browser cookies. Using this plugin should not impact your site privacy policy in any way. Data that is published An XML Sitemap index, referencing other sitemaps containing your web site’s public post URLs of selected post types that are already public, along with their last modification date and associated image URLs, and any selected public archive URLs. An author sitemap can be included, which will contain links to author archive pages. These urls contain author/user slugs, and the author archives can contain author bio information. If you wish to keep this out of public domain, then deactivate the author sitemap and use an SEO plugin to add noindex headers to the respective archive pages. A Google News Sitemap containing your web site’s public and recent (last 48 hours) URLs of selected news post type, along with their publication time stamp and associated image URL. Data that is transmitted when a connection between your site and Google Search Console is configured in this plugin, the sitemap index and google news sitemap can be submitted to Google. No data is transmitted to any third party. Contribute If you’re happy with this plugin as it is, please consider writing a quick rating or helping other users out on the support forum. If you wish to help build this plugin, you’re very welcome to translate it into your language or contribute code on Github. Credits XML Sitemap Feed was originally based on the discontinued plugin Standard XML Sitemap Generator by Patrick Chia. Since then, it has been completely rewritten and extended in many ways. NOTES: If you do not use fancy URL’s or you have WordPress site running in a subdirectory, a dynamic robots.txt will NOT be generated. On large sites, it is advised to use a good caching plugin to improve your site and sitemap performance.