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Tobias Bäthge

Creator and Developer at TablePress

@tobiasbg Magdeburg, Germany joined Jul 2008

tablepress.org github.com/TobiasBg Slack: @tobiasbg
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    Bio

    Tobias Bäthge is a web developer from Magdeburg, Germany. He loves baseball and has been developing for WordPress since 2006! With more than 750,000 active installations and over 24 million downloads, his plugin TablePress is now the highest-rated and most popular WordPress table plugin.

    Interests

    WordPress, Baseball

    WordPress Origin Story

    • First website (pure HTML/CSS) in 1998.
    • First personal WordPress blog in 2006.
    • Published first WordPress plugin “WP-Table Reloaded” in April 2009.
    • First contribution to WordPress Core code in February 2010.
    • Published second WordPress plugin “TablePress” in June 2012 (as a replacement for WP-Table Reloaded).
    • Speaker at WordCamp Chicago 2013
    • Attended WordCamp Jena 2009, WordCamp Berlin 2010, WordCamp Chicago 2013, WordCamp Europe 2013 (Leiden, NL), WordCamp Berlin 2015, WordCamp Boston 2017, WordCamp Leipzig 2023, WordCamp Germany 2023
    • December 2022: Launched premium versions for TablePress on tablepress.org.
    • October 2023: Bronze sponsor of WordCamp Germany 2023

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '26 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    B BuddyPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Speaker '14
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26
    POLYGLOTS
    2 badges
    Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

    Current Job

    Creator and Developer
    Present
    TablePress

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    66contributions
    high9
    medium57
    score84
    Last 90 days
    88contributions
    high13
    medium75
    score114
    Last 12 months
    300contributions
    high60
    medium240
    score420

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 29 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4

    Time commitment

    2 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 14 Wed · 10:16
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to How to centre the text position of the table head row, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @ldoyle2707, no problem, you are very welcome! :-) Good to hear that this helped!…
    Oct 13 Tue · 08:58
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to How to centre the text position of the table head row, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @ldoyle2707, Good to hear that this helped! For the font size, adding e.g. .tablepress.tablepress…
    Oct 13 Tue · 07:59
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to How to centre the text position of the table head row, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @ldoyle2707, Ah, my bad, I totally copy/pasted the wrong command in my reply... Sorry.…
    Oct 12 Mon · 15:57
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Table-List Corrupt, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @ulibaehr, Thanks for your post and sorry for the trouble! It's no problem that…
    Oct 12 Mon · 15:56
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WordPress crash after update to 3.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @johnhooks, no problem, you are very welcome! :-) Good to hear that this helped!…
    Oct 12 Mon · 11:52
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to [TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy] Bug: PHP 8.x TypeError in CSSTidy (class.csstidy_optimise.php line 486), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @nahuelstes, Quick update: I have just released TablePress 3.4.1 which prevents the error from…
    Oct 12 Mon · 11:52
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to [TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy] Fatal error on WordPress search after updating to TablePress 3.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi everyone, Quick update: I have just released TablePress 3.4.1 which prevents the error from…
    Oct 12 Mon · 11:52
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to [TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy] Failed to initialize plugin: tablepress_tinymce” in Elementor’s Text Editor widg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @ndpool, quick update: Even though I couldn't reproduce this in my test site, I…
    Oct 12 Mon · 09:14
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Critical Error when saving CSS, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi everyone, Quick update: I have just released TablePress 3.4.1 which prevents the error from…
    Oct 12 Mon · 09:14
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Bug in tablepress 3.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @marathonloper, Quick update: I have just released TablePress 3.4.1 which prevents the error from…

    Developer

    1 plugin

    Completed courses

    1 completed

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    Plugins

    1 favorite

    Translations

    8 locales
    de_DE / formal Deutsch (German) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 322 projects.

    Frontend Post WordPress Plugin – AccessPress Anonymous Post AccessPress Social Icons Add Shortcodes Actions And Filters Add Meta Tags Admin Menu Tree Page View Adminimize AdRotate Banner Manager Access Governance for WordPress (aka AAM) Advanced Code Editor ACF: Google Map Extended Advanced Excerpt Affiliates Manager Event Calendar Timely All-in-One Events Calendar All-in-one Like Widget All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) All-in-One WP Migration and Backup All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall AnsPress – Question and answer Aqua Page Builder Attachments Audit Trail Automatic Domain Changer BackUpWordPress BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin Basic Bilingual bbPress Better Delete Revision Better Search Replace Kadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection Black Studio TinyMCE Widget Bogo Booking Calendar Broken Link Checker Brozzme Cookie Notification BuddyPress Bulk Delete Button Builder – Buttons X Caldera Forms – More Than Contact Forms PublishPress Capabilities: User Role Access Control, Admin Area Permissions Captcha Catch Web Tools ChatMe Mini chCounter Widget Child Theme Configurator Spam Protection for Forms & Comments. Anti-Spam by CleanTalk Clk.im Integrator CMS Tree Page View – Reorder Pages with a Drag-and-Drop Tree

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    de_DE Deutsch (German) Patterns Translation Editor Project Translation Editor Translation Contributor

    Translation editor for 1 project.

    Patterns

    Translation editor for 2 projects.

    Plugins Themes

    Contributed translations to 12 projects.

    Advertising Manager AVH First Defense Against Spam Cimy User Extra Fields Easing Slider Ktai Style Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery RSSImport TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy Trust Form WP eCommerce WP-Property – WordPress Powered Real Estate and Property Management WP-Table Reloaded

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    en_AU English (Australia) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy

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    en_CA English (Canada) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy

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    en_GB English (UK) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy

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    en_NZ English (New Zealand) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy

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    hr Hrvatski (Croatian) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy

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    nb_NO Norsk bokmål (Norwegian) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy

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