Easy Tables – Table Manager for WPBakery Page Builder is a commercial add-on that adds a spreadsheet-style table editor to the WPBakery page builder inside WordPress. Instead of hand-writing HTML, site owners build tables through a drag-and-drop grid with a formatting toolbar, then drop them into any page or post as a WPBakery element. It suits freelancers, agencies and small businesses already committed to WPBakery who publish structured data such as price lists, comparison charts, schedules and reports. The plugin is sold on CodeCanyon for $16 and is developed by wpbakery, the same author behind the page builder itself.
What the Easy Tables Add-ons Actually Do Inside the Page Builder
The core of the product is an editing interface modelled on a spreadsheet. Rows and columns are added or removed in bulk rather than one cell at a time, which matters when a table grows past a handful of entries. Anyone who has built a pricing matrix with twenty rows will recognise the difference: the bulk controls turn a tedious job into a short one, and the layout updates live as the grid changes.
Formatting is handled by a WYSIWYG toolbar that sits alongside the grid. It covers font size, bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, plus font colour, cell background colour, text alignment and cell borders. That set is deliberately narrow. It is enough to produce a readable table that matches a site’s palette, but it is not a design tool in the sense a dedicated page builder is. The toolbar controls individual cells and selections, so a header row can be styled differently from the body without touching CSS.
Cells also accept raw HTML. That single capability widens the product considerably: a cell can hold a link, a small image, an icon, a line break, or a short list, which means a table can carry richer content than plain text allows. For price lists with linked product pages, or comparison tables with checkmarks, this is the feature that does the heavy lifting.
- Spreadsheet-style grid editor — build and restructure tables visually, with the layout saved as part of the page content.
- Bulk row and column operations — add or delete several rows or columns at once instead of repeating a single action.
- Inline formatting toolbar — control typography, colour, alignment and borders per cell or selection.
- HTML inside cells — embed links, images and other markup directly in the table.
- Twelve preset visual themes — apply a ready-made style as a starting point rather than building one from scratch.
- Multiple tables per page — the changelog notes that more than one table can be inserted on the same page.
The package ships with source files in JavaScript, CSS, LESS, PHP and a layered PSD. For an agency that needs to adjust the front-end styling beyond what the toolbar exposes, having LESS and CSS available means the visual layer can be extended without fighting an encrypted bundle. The declared browser support reaches back to Internet Explorer 9, which is unusual for a plugin still receiving updates in the 2020s and suggests the codebase carries some age.
Where This Fits and Where It Does Not
The clearest fit is an existing WPBakery site that publishes recurring structured content. A restaurant updating a menu, a clinic listing consultation fees, a SaaS company maintaining a feature comparison, a school publishing timetables — all of these benefit from editing a grid rather than rebuilding markup every time a figure changes. Agencies that hand sites to non-technical clients get the same benefit in reverse: the client can edit a table without breaking the page.
It also suits projects where tables are occasional rather than constant. Buying a single $16 add-on is easier to justify than adopting a separate table plugin with its own shortcodes and its own styling system, particularly when the site already uses WPBakery for everything else.
The wrong choice is any site not running WPBakery. The add-on is built specifically for that page builder and depends on it; on Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi or a block theme it has nothing to attach to. The vendor’s own specification confirms it is not Gutenberg-optimised. A second poor fit is a project that needs dynamic tables — data pulled from a database, a CSV import that refreshes on a schedule, sorting and filtering on the front end, or pagination for hundreds of rows. Easy Tables produces static, hand-authored tables. It is an editor, not a data display system.
Strengths and Limitations
Strengths
- The spreadsheet-style grid is genuinely faster than writing table markup by hand, and the bulk row and column controls scale well as tables grow.
- HTML support inside cells means tables are not restricted to plain text, which covers most real-world publishing needs.
- Twelve preset themes give a usable starting point without any design work.
- Source files are included, so front-end styling can be customised at the code level.
- Strong sales history on CodeCanyon — over 7,400 purchases — indicates a large installed base and long-standing availability.
- Low price relative to the time saved on recurring table edits.
Limitations
- The rating sits at 3.8 out of 5 across 216 reviews. That is a meaningful sample, and it signals that a noticeable share of buyers ran into problems.
- The last update was October 2022 and targets WordPress 6.0.x. The vendor does not state compatibility with later WordPress releases, and the changelog shows a long gap between 2019 and 2022, so the update cadence is slow.
- There is no front-end interactivity. No sorting, no filtering, no search, no pagination, and no responsive card fallback for narrow screens is described by the vendor.
- Tables are static content. There is no import from CSV or Excel, no connection to an external data source, and no way to update a table in one place and have it appear across the site.
- No Gutenberg support and no high-resolution asset flag, which limits use on modern block-based sites.
- Declared support for Internet Explorer 9 through 11 suggests a legacy codebase rather than a modern one.
How It Compares With Other Table Options
The alternative most sites weigh is a standalone table plugin — the kind that installs independently of any page builder and offers its own block, shortcode or widget. Those generally win on front-end features: sortable columns, search boxes, responsive behaviour and CSV import are common in that category, and they work regardless of which builder the site uses. Their downside is a second styling system to maintain and a second set of compatibility questions.
Easy Tables competes on integration instead. Because it is a WPBakery element rather than a separate system, tables inherit the page’s editing workflow and there is no shortcode to remember. For a site already standardised on WPBakery, that cohesion is the whole argument. For a site that is not, the argument disappears entirely.
A third option is simply building tables in the page builder’s own row and column elements, or pasting HTML. That costs nothing and works everywhere, but it is slow for anything beyond a few rows and offers no formatting toolbar. Easy Tables is essentially a productivity layer over that approach, and it should be judged on whether the time saved justifies $16 and one more plugin in the stack.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Easy Tables work without WPBakery Page Builder?
No. It is an add-on for WPBakery and depends on that plugin being installed and active. The vendor lists WPBakery as a compatibility requirement and confirms the product is not optimised for Gutenberg. On a site using Elementor, Divi, the block editor or a block theme, the plugin has nothing to attach to and cannot be used.
Can Easy Tables import data from a CSV or Excel file?
No import function is described by the vendor. Tables are built and edited manually through the drag-and-drop grid, with rows and columns added in bulk. The spreadsheet comparison refers to the editing experience, not to file compatibility. Anyone needing to sync a table with an external spreadsheet or database will need a different tool.
Are the tables responsive on mobile devices?
The vendor does not state how tables behave on small screens, and no responsive card layout, horizontal scroll handling or breakpoint controls are listed among the features. Because the formatting is applied per cell with fixed alignment, colour and border settings, wide tables should be tested on mobile before publishing. This is a gap worth checking on a staging site.
Is Easy Tables still maintained and compatible with current WordPress versions?
The most recent update was version 2.2.0 in October 2022, addressing display and save issues with WordPress 5.8. Declared compatibility is WordPress 6.0.x. The vendor does not state support for later releases, and the changelog shows multi-year gaps between updates. Buyers should confirm current compatibility before relying on it for a long-term project.
Verdict
Easy Tables is worth buying for one specific situation: a WordPress site already built on WPBakery that regularly publishes hand-authored tables and wants a faster, more visual way to edit them. The spreadsheet-style grid, bulk row controls and in-cell HTML support do real work, and $16 is a small price for the time saved on recurring edits.
It is the wrong purchase for anyone not running WPBakery, and a risky one for projects that need dynamic data, sorting, filtering, CSV import or guaranteed compatibility with the newest WordPress releases. The 3.8 rating across 216 reviews and the 2022 update date are the two signals to weigh most heavily. Buyers who need a maintained, feature-rich table system should look at standalone table plugins instead; buyers who just want to stop hand-coding tables inside WPBakery will find this does the job.
