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Beta Release Features Overview
Features overview
MAJOR FEATURES
UX IMPROVEMENTS
BUGFIXES
creation wizard
o
o
through entries
o
o
everywhere
file_get_contents()
replaced with curl()
for queries
Google Spreadsheets
support
tables
Table constructor
A WIZARD THAT HELPS
UNEXPERIENCED USERS TO CREATE
WPDATATABLES
Four possible constructor/
wizard options are available in
wpDataTables 1.6:
Manual table input
Import table from CSV or XLS
file
Generate a query to
WordPress posts database
Generate a query to any
MySQL database
03. save
wpDataTables will create a MySQL
table, init all wpDataTable metadata
and open the back-end editor.
03. save
wpDataTables will create a MySQL
table, import all content from the
file, init all wpDataTable metadata
and open the back-end editor.
05. PREVIEW
wpDataTables will generate the query
for you, show the query and the
preview of data. You can change the
query in SQL editor field
05. PREVIEW
wpdatacharts wizard
A wizard that helps to create
charts from wpdatatables
Charts are no longer tightly
binded to tables 1:1, can be
created, edited and inserted
to page independently, table
is only used as a source of
data
Creating charts is split into
simple steps
2 render engines: Google and
Highcharts
You get the preview as you
create the chart, and you can
change it if you need
Editing is same as creating
Chart can follow table filtering
05. PREVIEW
google spreadsheets
Google spreadsheets can now be
used as data source for
wpdatatables
publish a google
spreadsheet and get
a link
paste the link to
wpDataTables
Get the usual
wpDataTable which
you can modify as
MySQL-based, CSVbased, Excel-based,
etc.
Its required to define an Integer notnull field which will identify users.
E.g. user_id.
wpdatatables_filter_mysql_query()
passes the table ID correctly now
Charts (old version) bugfixed but remain
there only for backward compatibility
0 value wasnt recognized in number
range filtering, fixed now
JS strings added to gettext and
wp_localize_script()
etc