Do I have a goodie for you! During an Ask Armand session (part of AM2), Armand Morin was answering a question regarding tables in WordPress. What happened was, this person had created a table in Dreamweaver with styles they wanted then pasted the table into WordPress. Of course the results were not as expected.
Those of us who are familiar with WordPress and in general web building completely understand the reason why. One thing Armand said struck me. That tables in WordPress are not always straightforward.
He’s right but it need not be so at all. In our CSS Quickstart training, I recorded a small demo for students how the CSS hierarchy works and I thought, well this would be the ultimate demonstration.
So I created a stylesheet just for tables and made it into a plugin. You install the plugin and with some very minor modifications to your table will now use these pretty styles instead of whatever the theme designer has set.
This Pretty CSS Tables plugin pack includes 4 styles and you can download the plugin here
More thoughts:
Although the plugin is nice and convenient, it actually works out best if you could create the styles yourself this way, you will be 100% sure your tables (and other areas) have the exact look and feel you want. In order to do this, you need to have a strong understanding of CSS. There’s no better time to learn than now because we can hold your hand as you learn for 4 full weeks. Learn more about this opportunity.
