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 20 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

19contributions

high6

medium13

score31

Last 90 days

47contributions

high13

medium34

score73

Last 12 months

311contributions

high54

medium257

score419

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 28 releases

Time commitment

2 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

TablePress

Contributions

Type

June 2026

Jun 12 Fri · 16:49

Forums med

Posted a reply to tableheaders with 2 lines of text ALT ENTER, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @tjerk79, Thanks for your post and sorry for the trouble! The normal way to…

Jun 10 Wed · 06:18

Forums med

Posted a reply to Security question, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @relozo, Thanks for your follow-up! I checked this again in the code: This is…

Jun 10 Wed · 06:06

Polyglots high

Translated 32 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jun 04 Thu · 16:40

Forums med

Posted a reply to Excel Import, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @ckettl, Yes, that's correct. Unfortunately, it's not possible to have HTML tags in cells…

Jun 04 Thu · 13:06

Forums med

Posted a reply to Requested unknown parameter error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @madbirdesign2, Thanks for your post! Nice find! Indeed, broken HTML code (often with missing…

Jun 02 Tue · 19:46

Forums med

Posted a reply to controller-admin.php has base 64 encrypted text, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, no problem, you are very welcome! :-) Good to hear that this helped! Best…

Jun 02 Tue · 18:53

Forums med

Posted a reply to controller-admin.php has base 64 encrypted text, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @wv0l! Thanks for your post and sorry for the trouble! I'll be happy to…

Jun 01 Mon · 18:04

Forums med

Posted a reply to Excel Import, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @ckettl, Good news! This will be fixed in TablePress 3.3.2, coming in about two…

May 2026

May 31 Sun · 12:07

Forums med

Posted a reply to Excel Import, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @ckettl, Thanks for your post and sorry for the trouble! Nice find! Indeed, it…

May 25 Mon · 03:49

Meta high

Mentioned in [14915] on Meta SVN:
Plugin Directory: Remove user dispaly_name UTF8 workarounds.

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 – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic 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

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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.