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You Should Use wpDataTables to Create Tables & Charts in WordPress

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What is one of the more mind-numbing aspects of working with huge amounts of data for you? For us, it is the endless amount of time it seems to take to condense it into comprehensible charts and graphs.

When you need to work with a variety of data categories and statistics, your task can take much longer.

Maybe you’d really like to find something to do the heavy lifting for you. For WordPress, that “something” would be a chart- and/or table-building plugin. This is a tool that gets the job done, and doesn’t require trudging up a steep learning curve to use it.

wpDataTables is such a tool. This valuable WP plugin does the data management and organization heavy-lifting for you. Your website data will be displayed in orderly, intuitive, interactive charts and tables.

To top it off, no coding of any kind is required on your part.

wpDataTables 2.0’s Exciting New Features

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A chart and table building tool that can provide valuable help to 12,000+ users must have many things going for it. This can happen when a team, like the wpDataTables team, listen to what their users want. They continue to add value to this plugin by making it more intuitive to use. They add helpful features and cut any errant bugs.

Which is what you’ll find in wpDataTables 2.0.

You’ll save a bunch of time

TMS, the developer, has improved their easy-to-use plugin. They made it even easier to work with. As you well know, and 80%+ of wpDataTables users will verify: a flat learning curve is best.

The back-end, as well as the front-end, has experienced a makeover and has in fact been redesigned from the ground up. Now, you can create complex tables, based on millions of rows of data, in mere minutes.

You get instant results

How often have you created a table, only to find that changes will eventually be required? Probably quite often. With 2.0, when you make a change, you'll be able to preview its effect in an instant. Zero wait time is especially nice when someone is demanding quick action!

You don’t have to be a techie

Although wpDataTables will make you look like one — even if you're a newbie.

You don't have to know the code, and you don't have to know anything about data management. You just need to know what you want the final result to look like. Even then, the plugin will do all the work for you. If you can click a mouse and do a copy-paste, you have it made.

Having fewer things means less worry (or no worries at all)

wpDataTables' features and functions that required some improvement have been improved. Those that required a little fixing, have been fixed. Conditional formatting, editing logic, and advanced filtering logic functions now perform better.

Integration with Gravity Forms and Formidable Forms

Lately, the people at TMS created two new add-ons that will allow you to show Gravity Forms or Formidable Forms entry data in wpDataTables, and consolidate the power of form builders and interactive responsive tables.

Now you can render your forms entries in wpDataTables natively.

These two, along with the Report Builder, help you generate reports on table data, and create more powerful filtering systems.

wpDataTables' Best Liked Evergreen Features

When users really like a feature, it's best to leave it alone if it doesn't require fixing or improving. This is true even when other features are being enhanced and new ones are being added.

You aren't confined to specific formats either; wpDataTables isn't picky that way. Excel files, Google spreadsheets, CSV files, XML, JSON, etc. It doesn't matter. Real-time data? You can create a table from MySQL if you wish.

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