Sunday, August 10, 2025

Avoid Google Sheets on Your Website

I do not recommend displaying Google Sheets on your website unless there is no viable alternative. Google Sheets do funky things when embedded in a non-Google domain (which your website is), especially with any links in the sheet.

Better Alternatives

  • A Participants Database page displayed by a pdb_list shortcode. You probably do this for your club's member roster. Here's another example.
  • A plain old WordPress Table for stuff that isn't in or cannot be added to your PDB. Rows and columns with your stuff in the cells.