Creating comparison tables for Wordpress

[efeezy]

Is there a simple & painless way to create nice looking product comparison tables in Wordpress?

Something like this Find the Best Travel Credit Cards and Airline Credit Cards - Compare 194 Offers would be perfect. Any good plugins that get the job done?

 

[shiftymcnab]

I was looking for something similar a few months back.

I found WordPress and Joomla Affiliate Data Feed Price Comparison PriceTapestry.org (tried a few free scripts too but no real success or worthy of hunting for again) but didn't end up trying it. Went with an .xml data feed as I only had a small set of products to compare.

 

[efeezy]

That's interesting. I wasn't even really needing it for a datafeed, although that's not a bad idea also. I guess I could probably get one of our resident designers to code up a table like that for me if I can't find an out of the box solution.

 

[shiftymcnab]

I assumed you were needing data feeds to produce the tables/content and not for layout/design? Styling I just done manually in CSS.

If you're not collecting data changes and the site/comparisons are fairly basic would CSS and a blank template (html or shortcode) not suffice?

My main reason for using data feeds was to save filling in the template fields for each product set.

If anyone finds or knows of a better/slicker solution I'd be interested to know too.