Tobias Bäthge (@tobiasbg) – WordPress user profile

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

13contributions

high3

medium10

score19

Last 90 days

43contributions

high9

medium34

score61

Last 12 months

269contributions

high61

medium208

score391

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 29 releases

Time commitment

2 hours per week

TablePress 2 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 14 Mon · 18:56

Forums med

Posted a reply to Using the LARGE() function, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @mpbaweb, Thanks for your question, I'll be happy to help! Now, this is more…

Sep 14 Mon · 15:10

Forums med

Posted a reply to How to make text clickable in table, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @kristinubute, Thank you for your reply! If your links resemble the exact code you…

Sep 14 Mon · 08:03

Forums med

Posted a reply to Page anchor for the table?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, no problem, you are very welcome! :-) Good to hear that this helped! Best…

Sep 13 Sun · 20:35

Forums med

Posted a reply to Page anchor for the table?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @jwmc, Thanks for your question! All tables automatically get tablepress-123 (where 123 is the…

Sep 11 Fri · 18:48

Forums med

Posted a reply to How to make text clickable in table, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Kristin, Thank you for your post, and sorry for the trouble! I'll go through…

Sep 08 Tue · 20:06

Forums med

Posted a reply to interactive attendance checklist, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Thanks for the kind words :-) Sorry that we couldn't offer a solution this…

Sep 04 Fri · 14:13

Forums med

Posted a reply to TablePress related errors (Newbie) – Black Band in Header, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @bufferzone, Thanks for your post and sorry for the trouble! That does sound like…

August 2026

Aug 20 Thu · 15:51

Forums med

Posted a reply to Critical Error Logs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @coler7, Can you please try what I suggested in my reply? :-) The error…

Aug 20 Thu · 09:24

Forums med

Posted a reply to Sorting german dates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @kds81, no problem, you are very welcome! :-) Good to hear that this helped!…

Aug 20 Thu · 09:17

Plugins high

Committed [3656332] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub

Plugins 1
Courses 1
Favorites 1
Translations 8

Developer

1 plugin

TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy

600,000+ active installs

Completed courses

1 completed

Using the WordPress Data Layer

Completed June 8, 2023

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Plugins

1 favorite

TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy

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 Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress 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, Honeypot, 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.