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

16contributions

high2

medium14

score20

Last 90 days

51contributions

high11

medium40

score73

Last 12 months

316contributions

high69

medium247

score454

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 28 releases

Time commitment

2 hours per week

TablePress 2 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 09 Thu · 12:31

Forums med

Posted a reply to Cannot import table, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @legendarypl, Great, that's good to hear! Thanks for letting me know that everything is…

Jul 09 Thu · 11:10

Forums med

Posted a reply to Is there any way to add caption tag in table ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @igenlabs, Thanks for your post, I'll be happy to help! Adding a caption is…

Jul 08 Wed · 06:02

Polyglots high

Translated 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jul 08 Wed · 04:56

Plugins high

Committed [3599761] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 3.3.3 from GitHub

Jul 06 Mon · 13:21

Forums med

Posted a reply to Cannot import table, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @legendarypl, Thanks for your post and sorry for the trouble! Can you confirm that…

Jul 02 Thu · 10:15

Forums med

Posted a reply to TablePress inserts “nl” for additional tags, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @udsn, Thanks for your question! Your observation is correct, TablePress converts line breaks in…

June 2026

Jun 29 Mon · 18:25

Forums med

Posted a reply to Cannot reinitialise DataTable, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, well, it's possible that you only got that warning message now, but that the…

Jun 29 Mon · 08:09

Forums med

Posted a reply to Cannot reinitialise DataTable, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @scottsanfilippo, quick update: A coworker found the cause for this: It seems that you…

Jun 29 Mon · 06:59

Forums med

Posted a reply to Cannot reinitialise DataTable, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @scottsanfilippo! Thanks for your post and sorry for the trouble! The cause for this…

Jun 19 Fri · 20:54

Forums med

Posted a reply to Admin panel of a table only shows 33 rows, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @rvaneerd, no problem, you are very welcome! :-) Good to hear that this helped!…

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

Browse courses on Learn WordPress

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 Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus Captcha Catch Web Tools ChatMe Mini chCounter Widget Child Theme Configurator CleanTalk Anti-Spam. Spam Firewall & Bot protection 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.