The shift toward block-based design has reshaped how content is built in WordPress. With Gutenberg, users enjoy a more visual, block-based editing experience.
However, despite this evolution, creating responsive and stylish tables remains challenging with the default Table block. The default Table block in Gutenberg is quite basic and not mobile-friendly, making it tricky to create tables that look good on all devices.
That’s where Tableberg comes in, a modern table plugin explicitly crafted for the Gutenberg editor. It’s not just another plugin. It’s a block-native solution that makes table creation feel as smooth and intuitive as the rest of your content-building process.
What is Tableberg?
Tableberg is a block-based table-building plugin for the WordPress Block Editor. It works fully inside the editor, so you don’t need to deal with shortcodes or complicated settings.
You just add the Tableberg block and design your table using the regular sidebar and toolbar options. The plugin is made by the team behind Ultimate Blocks, a popular block plugin for WordPress.
The plugin adds a custom “Tableberg” block to your editor, which you can use to create any table you like. With Tableberg, you can build clean and flexible tables using different types of content like text, images, buttons, icons, and lists.
It also includes helpful settings for mobile responsiveness and style customization – all without needing to know any code. Tableberg makes it easy to create good-looking, responsive tables right inside Gutenberg.
Key Features of Tableberg
Let’s look at the features that make Tableberg especially useful for content creators, bloggers, and marketers.
Block-Based Table Creation
Everything happens inside the editor. Tables are created and edited directly in the block editor. You can create, manage, and style your tables without leaving the Gutenberg interface or learning shortcodes.
Pre-Built Patterns & Templates
To save you time, Tableberg includes a variety of pre-designed table layouts as block patterns. You can insert these templates with one click and then replace the sample data with your content.
Some ready-made designs include pricing tables, product comparison tables, feature lists, and pros/cons tables. This is a huge head start for users who want good-looking tables without designing from scratch. It is ideal for bloggers, affiliate marketers, and WooCommerce users.
Responsive Table Design
Tableberg tackles this with built-in responsive settings that ensure your tables adapt gracefully to different devices. You can enable horizontal scroll or stack table columns on smaller screens, so content remains readable.
You can even configure certain columns to hide on tablet or phone view if they’re not essential, allowing you to simplify the table for small screens. These responsive controls (available in the block’s settings) mean you won’t need custom CSS tricks.
Versatile Cell Content
You can insert various content types into table cells as “sub-blocks.” Out of the box, Tableberg supports regular text/paragraphs, lists, buttons, and images inside cells.
Beyond that, Tableberg’s Pro version unlocks even more cell content options: star ratings, icons, ribbons/badges, styled lists, and custom HTML snippets can be placed in cells.
Advanced Styling Controls
Customize spacing, borders, background colors, and text alignment directly from the block settings. Whether you want minimal or bold designs, Tableberg gives you the tools. Almost every table design aspect can be tuned without writing CSS.
Lightweight and Performance-Friendly
Despite its many features, Tableberg is built with performance in mind. It generates clean, semantic HTML for tables and only loads necessary assets, so your pages remain fast.
This is crucial because large tables or many extra scripts can sometimes slow down sites, but Tableberg avoids that bloat. Additionally, the code is SEO-friendly (using proper table tags and structure), which can help search engines crawl and understand your tables better.
Why Does Tableberg Stand Out?
With so many WordPress plugins, what makes Tableberg special? Here are a few reasons it stands out in the crowd of table solutions:
- Gutenberg-Native, Zero Learning Curve: Tableberg is built for the Block Editor, in the Block Editor. There’s no clunky external interface to learn – you work with tables like any Gutenberg block. With one click, Tableberg even lets you convert core Table blocks into Tableberg blocks.
- Emphasis on Usability and Aesthetics: Tableberg was designed with real users in mind – bloggers, marketers, and online store owners. The plugin balances practical features like responsive layouts, sorting options, etc., with visual customization like styling controls and templates. This means you can achieve tables that are both user-friendly and eye-catching.
- Continuous Development & Community Feedback: Another reason Tableberg shines is the team’s commitment to improving it. The plugin is fairly new but under active development with frequent updates and new features rolling out. The developers are very responsive to feedback from the community.
In summary, Tableberg stands out by being Gutenberg-first, highly user-centric in design, and actively maintained. It was born from a realization that WordPress needed a better way to handle tables in the new block paradigm, and it succeeds in delivering that.
Popular Use Cases of Tableberg
Because it’s so flexible, Tableberg can create various tables and layouts. Here are some of the most popular use cases where this plugin can make a real difference:
Comparison Tables:
Perfect for comparing products or services side by side. For example, a tech blogger can create a spec comparison table for smartphones, or an affiliate marketer can compare features of different software plans.
Pricing Tables:
Comparison Tables: Perfect for comparing products or services side by side. For example, a tech blogger can create a spec comparison table for smartphones, or an affiliate marketer can compare features of different software plans.
Product Specification Tables:
If you’re writing product reviews or running an e-commerce site, you can use Tableberg to list product specs in a neat table. It is also great for listing technical details or variations.
Service List:
Businesses can list their services or features in a table format for clarity.
Content Summaries:
Bloggers and content creators can use tables to summarize information. This could be a summary of course modules, a comparison of techniques, or a quick-reference table of facts.
Because you can style header rows and alternate row colors, Tableberg can make summary tables more visually appealing and easier to skim.
Schedules:
Need to display a schedule or timeline? A table can be a simple solution. You can use Tableberg to create event schedules (with columns for time slots, sessions, and speakers), class timetables, or historical timelines.
With the ability to merge cells, you could span a single event across multiple time slots, for instance.
These are just a few examples – the possibilities are endless. From pros and cons lists to team directories or FAQ tables, if you have information that fits a grid, Tableberg can probably handle it.
Getting Started with Tableberg
Installing Tableberg is also easy, as is creating tables using the plugin. To install the plugin, go to your website’s dashboard.
Go to Plugins > Add Plugin. Type Tableberg in the Search Box, and hit the Enter button of your keyboard.
After installing the plugin, you must activate it.
That’s the installation part. Now let’s see how you can create a table using the Tableberg. First, go to your post or page where you want to insert a table.
Now, click the Add Block icon (1), type Tableberg (2), and click on the block (3).
You can create a table from scratch or choose one from the pre-built tables.
To create a table from scratch, input the column and row count and hit the create button.
All you need to do is input your content to make a table. If you want to add text content, type it into the cell.
If you want anything else, just hit the Add Block button inside each cell.
You can add blocks such as the Buttons, List, Icons, Star Ratings, Ribbons, etc. Whatever you do, you do it in the Block editor. Here is the final demo below.
You can also create one by choosing one from the prebuilt templates. When you select one from the template library, it will be inserted into the editor. All you need to do is edit your table’s content.
Creating a table using the Tableberg is that easy. Anyone can easily get started quickly with the plugin without any special knowledge.
You can try Tableberg for free. The free version is quite powerful – it includes all the essential features and a selection of basic sub-blocks (paragraph, list, image, button) to get you started building tables immediately.
The Pro version introduces premium features like the Star Rating, Icon, Ribbon, Styled List, and Custom HTML blocks for table cells. With Pro, you will also get extras such as sortable tables or search/filter capabilities. The pro version starts at $49 yearly for a single website.
- 👉 Download Tableberg from WordPress.org
- 👉 Visit the Official Website
Final Thoughts!
Tableberg is a simple yet powerful table plugin for the WordPress block editor. It lets you create tables directly in Gutenberg without shortcodes or extra tools.
Users love how easy it is to use, and it already has a high rating (around 4.8 out of 5). The free version is capable, and the Pro version offers even more features.
If other table plugins feel outdated or hard to use, try Tableberg. It’s fast, flexible, and works perfectly with Gutenberg.
Happy table-building!