Title: TablePress Extensions
Author: Tobias Bäthge
Published: November 21, 2022
Last modified: May 11, 2025

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Customize features and add enhancements

# **Extending** TablePress

TablePress Extensions are separate small WordPress plugins that use [“Plugin Actions” and “Plugin Filter Hooks”](https://tablepress.org/faq/documentation-plugin-hooks-2/)
to add custom features or enhancements or extend and modify TablePress behavior.

Each available Extension has a details page, where you can find information about
its purpose, instructions on how to use it, and a download link.

For technical reasons, **several “TablePress Extension” plugins no longer work**
with TablePress 3.0 or newer! You can **keep** their **features by upgrading** to
a [TablePress Premium plan](https://tablepress.org/pricing/).

[Find out more](https://tablepress.org/upgrade-extensions/)

## Changing Frontend Table Behavior

 * [Automatic URL conversion](https://tablepress.org/extensions/automatic-url-conversion/?output_format=md)
 * [Single Cell Content Shortcode](https://tablepress.org/extensions/table-cell-shortcode/?output_format=md)

## Influencing the Table Features for Site Visitors

 * [Advanced Sorting plugins](https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-sorting-plugins/?output_format=md)
 * [Pagination Length Change “All” Entry](https://tablepress.org/extensions/length-change-all-entry/?output_format=md)
 * [Change DataTables strings](https://tablepress.org/extensions/change-datatables-strings/?output_format=md)

To use a TablePress Extension, just download it from its details page and install
and activate it like any other WordPress plugin. The easiest way to do that is via
the “Plugins” -> “Add Plugin” -> “Upload Plugin” screens in your WordPress Dashboard,
or by extracting the ZIP file and uploading the contained folder to the “wp-content/
plugins/” directory on your server, by using your FTP program.

Some Extensions require or allow further configuration, like adding configuration
parameters to the “TablePress table” block that you are using to display your table
in a post or on a page. This is then explained on the Extension’s details page.

If an Extension is useful for you, please check out the available [TablePress Premium features](https://tablepress.org/modules/)
and consider getting a [Premium license plan](https://tablepress.org/pricing/), 
which bring even more features for you and your site visitors. Thank you!