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If i were to find the use of tables used in WordPress in different genres of sites, where to look for them? And is there any way to understand whether the site owner using a plugin or a pattern, or just basic table blocks?
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Just by looking you can get a feel that a site is using a tables plugin such as WPDataTables, this comes with experience.
However, if you right click and select the”Elements” you will see where all the code is located.
You are probably noticing the style difference between different tables. This would largely be based (at least by default) on your theme. That would determine things like the borders, background colors, padding, margins, font, etc.
In the new block editor, it is pretty easy to adjust those settings to look how you want, or to add the custom CSS to customize further.
The table code itself is one of the core elements of HTML and is very easy to reproduce virtually anywhere.
If there is a functionality to it such as sorting, pagination, etc, then that is likely done via a plugin, or custom.
Note: Sometimes it may not be a “table”, but simple a box with rows containing columns.
Look in WordPress themes, plugins, or inspect page source code for tables. Check plugins section for installed plugins indicating table usage.