How do you display posts in a dynamic table?

If you want do what the TablePress author recommended, you’d need first to create a custom page (or post category) template – see Codex for Page_Templates – I wouldn’t explained it better then there. 🙂

There you’d need to create a custom WP_Query, or get_posts() / get_pages() query to get the list of posts or pages that you need (you will have to provide categories, or parent ID’s, or something like this) – see Codex for WP_Query, get_posts, get_pages functions.

Then, inside the template you created, you’d need to include javascript and CSS from DataTables plugin. You’d need to download it and put the files somewhere on your host first, of course.

The loop might be something like:

<?php $posts = get_posts(...) ?>
<table id="postTable">
<thead>
  <tr>
   <th>Title</th><th>Content</th>
  </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php foreach($posts as $post){?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $post->post_title?></td><td><?php echo $post->post_content ?></td>
</tr>
<?php } ?>
</tbody>

Then you’d need to add a javascript block which would initialize DataTables for your table

<script type="text/javascript">
 jQuery(function(){
    jQuery('#postTable').dataTable();
 });
</script>

If you did everything right it will generate a sortable table in your page template.

An easier way is probably using http://wpdatatables.com plugin and achieving the same results by just executing a MySQL query and putting the shortcode on your page. Here’s an example for doing exactly what you’re looking for with a complete tutorial.

http://wpdatatables.com/list-wp-pages-wpdatatables-wordpress-table-plugin/

see you!