Title: Post Type data?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Post Type data?

 *  Resolved [drperil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drperil/)
 * (@drperil)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-type-data/)
 * Great plugin, I’m hoping to use it for a project I’m working, but I have a quick
   question.
 * Is there a way to import data from custom post types? For example, if I made 
   a custom post type with the following additional fields:
    Media Type (text string–
   perhaps a taxonomy?) Sub Media type (text string – child taxonomy?) Below are
   all just text strings: File Name Champagne First Name Last Name Email Address
   Office Number
 * Could a table be made from the archive of those post types? That is, could I 
   make a table with those fields as headers then display the data from each post?
 * I was thinking of trying to use WP Types to make the post types/taxonomies and
   then using the Types sort codes and TablePress short codes to build a WP Views
   loop. I could also make a php page template… just wondering if TablePress has
   any kind of functions like that or if it’s really designed only to draw data 
   from the table editor in the admin area.
 * Thanks,
    Dr. Peril
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Thread Starter [drperil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drperil/)
 * (@drperil)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-type-data/#post-4755074)
 * Or, as I think about it, a simple front end data entry would be awesome. A few
   required text string fields and a file upload field (the first column, File Name,
   is also supposed to be a link to download that file), that would solve the problem.
 * In the end, we’re going to have like 60 people adding data. We don’t want them
   all to be in the WP dashboard and certainly can’t have them all editing a 1000
   row table manually, it would turn into mush. A front end data entry system would
   take care of that. I could just put it on a page that only x,y and z users or
   users of a specific level have access to.
 * Thoughts?
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-type-data/#post-4755133)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * Unfortunately, I’ll have to disappoint you here. This is not something that TablePress
   can really help with and it’s much out of scope for the plugin.
    When dealing
   with Custom Post Types and Post Meta data for them, it’s usually better to simply
   use a custom WP_Query and then create the table HTML code in a Loop in a page
   template. That should also make it easier to integrate some sort of frontend 
   editing, which is not possible for TablePress tables.
 * Of course, you can then also add the JS functions like sorting, search, and pagination,
   if you want them, by manually loading the DataTables JS library from [http://www.datatables.net/](http://www.datatables.net/)
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [drperil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drperil/)
 * (@drperil)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-type-data/#post-4755154)
 * Hi Tobias,
 * Thanks for the quick reply!
 * I’m sorry it won’t work out, but I’ll take your advise and fiddle with DataTables
   JS myself, I’ll get something put together that adds up to a solution, though
   I doubt it will be as clean as TablePress. Really, great plugin!
 * Thanks again,
    ~ Dr. Peril
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-type-data/#post-4755166)
 * Hi,
 * no problem, you are very welcome! Sorry that I couldn’t help directly, but I 
   hope that you can find a nice solution with DataTables.
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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