Hi,
thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
TablePress stores the user’s tables as a “Custom Post Type” in the wp_posts database table. You will find these as JSON-encoded two-dimensional arrays, with a value of “tablepress_table” in the post_type column. Thus, TablePress does not use its own database tables.
Regards,
Tobias
Okey.
I want to know this because I’m doubting if is better add a lot of tables on tablepress or some pdfs, for a extensive lists of information.
Thanks !!
Hi,
well, the advantage of using TablePress is that your data will directly be available as text, with all the benefits there are over a fixed file format.
Considering that a PDF probably has more meta data in it (than just the pure information), the storage in the database will likely be smaller.
With TablePress, you also would have the advantage of being able to selectively show information, make tables sortable and filterable, etc. which is not directly possible in a PDF file.
Regards,
Tobias
I’ve thought about tablepress sorting and filtering options, yes. I supose that I can convert the pdf to .xls, and import this .xls to tablepress. This is the fast way I think.
Thanks, and thanks for this plugin !!
Hi,
ah, so right now you already/only have the data in PDF files (but not in other formats)?
Yes, copying to Excel first, to clean up the data, sounds reasonable then.
Regards,
Tobias
