Moving from another table plugin

Rivi imports from TablePress, Ninja Tables and wpDataTables. Your old tables are only read, never changed or deleted.

Steps

1. Install and activate LAFU Rivi. Keep the old plugin as it is for now.
2. Open Rivi, Import. The card for your old plugin shows how many tables it found.
3. Press Choose tables, tick the ones you want and press Import.
4. Check a few tables under Rivi, Tables: columns, rows and settings come along.
5. Changed something in the old plugin since? Run the import again. It updates the tables it made before instead of making copies.

The import also works after the old plugin is removed, as long as its data is still in the database.

Pages with the old shortcode

• Ninja Tables: with LAFU Rivi Pro, pages that use [ninja_tables id="..."], [ninja_table_info] or [ninja_table_cell] show the imported Rivi table, with the same options (per_page, filter, columns, skip and the rest) and no page edits. Turn the old plugin off when you are ready: while it is active, its own shortcodes keep working as before.
• TablePress: replace [table id="3" /] with the Rivi shortcode shown in the Tables list, or use the Rivi block.
• wpDataTables: replace its shortcode the same way. Only tables whose rows are kept in wpDataTables itself are imported; tables made from an SQL query, a linked file, a Google Sheet or a web address are not, and the Import card names them. Export those to CSV in wpDataTables and import the file.

An old id that was not imported shows nothing to visitors and a short note to admins, never an error.