Find Your Way Around Ninja Tables

The Ninja Tables admin is one app with a top bar and a gear icon for site-wide settings. This page shows what each part does, how to switch between light and dark mode, and where the screens from older versions moved.

Open Ninja Tables

Click Ninja Tables in the WordPress admin menu (it reads Ninja Tables Pro when Pro is active). The menu has these items:

• Tables: the Tables list.
• Create Table: the Create a table screen.
• Import: the Import screen.
• Charts: opens the Charts screen, where you can install the free Ninja Charts plugin. Once Ninja Charts is active, this item opens its chart list.
• Get Pro (orange, free version only): opens the Pro page on wpmanageninja.com.
• Activate License or Renew License (orange, Pro only): shows while your license isn't active or has expired, and opens Settings › License.
• Settings: site-wide settings (Global Appearance, General, Permissions, Performance and, with Pro active, License).
• Help: documentation, support and community links.

You need the Ninja Tables admin permission to see the menu. By default that is administrators only; Pro can let other roles manage tables. See Who can manage tables.

The top bar

Every Ninja Tables screen shares the same top bar:

• Ninja Tables and the plan pill on the left. The pill reads Free or Pro. Click the logo or name to go back to the Tables list.
• Tables, Create Table, Import, Charts and Help in the middle. The one you are on is highlighted.
• The gear icon opens Settings on Global Appearance. It stays highlighted on any settings screen.
• The theme icon switches between light and dark mode.
• Get Pro on the right, on the free version only.

Inside a table, the top bar is replaced by the table's own header, which has the table name, its shortcode, Preview and Save. Click the back arrow there to return to the list.

Switch between light and dark mode

Click the theme icon in the top bar and choose Light, Dark or System. System follows your computer's setting, and the icon changes to a sun or moon to match what it picked.

Your choice is saved in your browser and is shared with the other Fluent plugins on the same site, so changing it in one changes it in all.

See what moved from older versions

A Welcome to the new Ninja Tables banner appears at the top of the Tables list until you dismiss it. Your tables, shortcodes and the way tables look on your site are unchanged; only the admin screens were reorganized. The banner has two buttons:

• What moved? opens a map of old screens and their new homes.
• Dismiss (the x) hides the banner for everyone on the site.

What moved? opens What moved in the new Ninja Tables:

Old screen	Where it lives now
Add Table (pop-up)	Create Table page
Tools › Import	Import (top bar)
Tools › Default appearance	Settings (gear) › Global Appearance
Tools › Permissions	Settings › Permissions
Tools › Global settings (JavaScript errors)	Settings › General
Tools › Clear cache	Settings › Performance
Tools › License	Settings › License
Table › Design Studio	Table › Table Design
Table › Columns	Table Rows, the gear on each column
Table › Custom filters (under Columns)	Table › Custom Filter
Table › Import / Export	Table Rows › Import / export
Table › Rendering settings & caching	Table › Table Configuration
Table › Additional CSS / JS	Table › Custom CSS/JS

In the dialog, Got it closes it. The Default appearance screen is called Global Appearance in the Settings side menu. See the Settings overview.

Old links still work

Bookmarks and links from older versions open the right place in the new admin:

• #/tools opens Import.
• #/tools/global_settings, #/tools/default_table_appearance, #/tools/permission, #/tools/performance and #/tools/licensing open the matching Settings screen.
• #/tables/<ID>/design_studio, /configuration, /additional_css, /filters and /table_editing open the matching tab of that table.
• #/tables/<ID>/import-export opens the table's Import / Export panel, and #/tables/<ID>/columns opens the older Columns page, each on a page of its own (neither is a tab). See Working in Table Rows.
• #/table_builder_add_table opens Create Table with the Drag & Drop table panel open.

You can also open a Create Table panel straight from a link by adding #/create?source= and the tile's key, for example #/create?source=upload or #/create?source=drag_and_drop.

Start-up hints

The first-run setup remembers that you skipped it in your browser, not on the site. If you clear your browser data, or open the admin in another browser, it appears again. The welcome banner is different: once anyone dismisses it, it stays closed for the whole site. See Onboarding.

When a feature needs Pro

On the free version, locked options show a Pro badge or a note with an Upgrade to Pro link. Clicking some of them opens an Unlock the Ninja Tables Pro features pop-up with two buttons: Not now, and Get Ninja Tables Pro, which opens the Pro page. See Free vs Pro for the full list.