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Hosted Content Importer (HCI) is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Bimal Poudel. With a rating of 5.0★ from 2 reviews.
Hosted Content Importer (HCI) is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.
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Hosted Content Importer (HCI) is a WordPress app. It holds a 5.0★ average from 2 reviews on WordPress.
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How Hosted Content Importer (HCI) works
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It imports third party hosted contents within WordPress blog. You can define from which url/resource to fetch the content. The original source may be editable by anyone else whom you trust. Thus, it logically empowers you to allow other users to externally edit a particular section of your blogs. And, you do not have to give them any access credentials of your website.
After installation, use shortcode tag [third] with few parameters as:
[third source="markdown" id="https://goo.gl/UpclKH" section=""]
source is a content processor type.
id is a URL or ID given by the third parties.
section is an optional parameter to access deeper content.
cache is a boolean directive whether to reuse the cached content.
It will then embed remote markdown content inside your blog.
Additionally, it will convert the text into HTML using Parsedown.
Parameters source: Where to seek the data (eg. Content Hosting Server). Examples:
analytics: ✔ implemented (Google Analytics)
file: ✔ implemented (Read from local file)
gist: ✔ implemented (Embed Gist Snippets)
jotform: ✔ implemented (Embed Web Forms)
markdown: ✔ implemented (Parse remote markdown files)
qr: ✔ implemented