Title: Release announcement: TablePress 2.2 Author: Tobias Bäthge Published: November 2, 2023 Last modified: May 14, 2025 --- [Releases](https://tablepress.org/category/release-announcements/) · November 2, 2023 # Release announcement: TablePress 2.2 Coming just a few days before WordPress 6.4, a new release of TablePress is now available. TablePress 2.2 can now be downloaded from the [WordPress Plugin Directory](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/) and will show up as an automatic update in the WordPress Dashboard for existing users shortly. **Update**: TablePress 2.2.5 has been released with a security and several bugfixes. [Find out more!](https://tablepress.org/release-announcement-tablepress-2-2-5/) TablePress 2.2 is a feature and enhancement update. Here are the highlights: * **Improvements around table styling** - The preview of the TablePress table block in the block editor now takes into account “Custom CSS”, for a more precise preview. - [⌊Screenshot of the Default Style Customizer user interface⌉⌊Screenshot of the Default Style Customizer user interface⌉[TablePress Pro and Max now have an **easy-to-use visual “[Default Style Customizer](https://tablepress.org/modules/default-style-customizer/)”**: Choose from pre-defined style variations or define your own color scheme to change your tables’ default style — without touching CSS code! * **The “[Responsive Tables](https://tablepress.org/modules/responsive-tables/)” premium module offers more possibilities** - The “Modal” mode can show all table data in an overlay modal window if columns don’t fit on the screen. (TablePress Pro and Max only.) - The “Scroll” mode now allows the visitor to scroll left and right by clicking arrow buttons. (TablePress Pro and Max only.) * **Enhanced and more polished user interfaces** - The “[Advanced Access Rights](https://tablepress.org/modules/advanced-access-rights/)” module now has a fixed header row and offers a keyboard shortcut for saving changes. (TablePress Max only.) - The “[Automatic Periodic Table Import](https://tablepress.org/modules/automatic-periodic-table-import/)” module now has a fixed header row, filtering, and sorting, to make working with long table lists easier. (TablePress Max only.) - In addition, the “Automatic Periodic Table Import” module now allows periodic imports with a 1-minute interval. (TablePress Max only.) * **Miscellaneous changes** - The TablePress [REST API](https://tablepress.org/modules/rest-api/) now has“ Create table” and “Delete table” endpoints and received optimizations and improvements. (TablePress Max only.) - The spacing between dropdowns of the “[Column Filter Dropdowns](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-columnfilterwidgets/)” module is more consistent across different screen sizes. (TablePress Pro and Max only.) - The legacy math formula evaluation engine now also supports the % (modulo) operator. - A bug in the import format detection of the legacy import engine was fixed. - TablePress Pro and TablePress Max are now fully translated to German. * **Behind the scenes** - Cleaned up and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation. - Updated external libraries to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes. - Automated code compatibility checks and build tools simplify chores for easier development. - **TablePress 2.2 requires WordPress 6.0 and PHP 7.2!** * **Premium versions** - Even more great features for you and your site’s visitors and priority email support are available with a Premium license plan of TablePress. [Go check them out!](https://tablepress.org/premium/) [Compare Features](https://tablepress.org/premium/?output_format=md#features) [Get a Premium plan](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md) ### Release announcement: TablePress 2.2.5 TablePress 2.2.5 fixes a minor security issue and a few bugs and brings some nice enhancements. Please see the dedicated [release announcement](https://tablepress.org/release-announcement-tablepress-2-2-5/). ### Release announcement: TablePress 2.2.4 TablePress 2.2.4 fixes a few bugs and brings some nice enhancements. For more information on changes and new features in TablePress 2.2.x, please see below. Updating is highly recommended! * The math formula calculation engine now properly handles quotation marks in text around embedded formulas. * An issue with the block theme preview when using the Site Editor on multisite installations was fixed. * Data consistency when saving tables is checked more thorougly. * Forward-compatibility with PHP 8.3 was added, to benefit from new features. * The extraction of error information for displaying error messages was improved. * The loading of the Default Style Customizer was improved. (TablePress Pro and Max only.) * The handling and loading of translation files was improved. (TablePress Pro and Max only.) * The debugging capabilities for the “Automatic Periodic Table Import” feature module were improved. (TablePress Max only.) * Updated external libraries to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes. * Cleaned up and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation. ### Release announcement: TablePress 2.2.3 TablePress 2.2.3 adds further protection against bugs in other plugins that interfere with the loading of JavaScript files, causing the TablePress admin screens to be unusable. Updating is highly recommended! Minor other changes are: * An issue where it was not possible to replace existing tables during an import was fixed. * Cleaned up and simplified code, for easier future maintenance, to follow WordPress Coding Standards, and to offer helpful inline documentation. ### Release announcement: TablePress 2.2.2 TablePress 2.2.2 adds further protection against bugs in other plugins that interfere with the loading of JavaScript files, causing the TablePress admin screens to be unusable. Updating is highly recommended! Minor other changes are: * The code that evaluates Shortcode parameters was optimized for a higher performance. * The “Sorted” order of the “Row Order” premium feature module no longer raises an error. (TablePress Pro and Max only.) * Updated external libraries to benefit from enhancements and bug fixes. ### Release announcement: TablePress 2.2.1 TablePress 2.2.1 adds further protection against bugs in other plugins that interfere with the loading of JavaScript files, causing the TablePress admin screens to be unusable. Updating is highly recommended!