Forward vs Insert Pages

Forward: Embed Image Links replaces plain image URLs with the actual image they point to. Paste a direct image URL into a post, page, bbPress topic, reply, forum description, or BuddyPress activity update, and the plugin displays it as an embedded image on the front end. The plugin also includes a simple width setting so large images can be scaled to fit the content area. Key features Converts direct image URLs into image embeds automatically. Works in posts, pages, bbPress content, and BuddyPress activity feeds. Supports common image formats including JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, WebP, and SVG. Lets you set a maximum image width as a percentage of the content area. Translation-ready and bundled with common language files. Good for Community sites where members paste image links in forums or activity feeds. Editorial workflows that need quick image previews from direct URLs. Sites that want lightweight image embedding without extra shortcodes. Accessibility WCAG 2.2 Level AA compliance is a release requirement for the interface and markup generated by Forward: Embed Image Links. Settings controls are tested for accessible names, keyboard operation, visible focus, contrast, reflow, and target size. Each generated image remains an accessible link with a descriptive action instead of removing the original URL’s purpose for non-visual users. Because a direct image URL does not contain a description of the image, authors remain responsible for providing an adjacent text equivalent when the image is informative. Developers can customize the link’s accessible name with the embed_image_links_accessible_label filter. The active theme and surrounding content can also affect full-page WCAG conformance. Compatibility Forward: Embed Image Links works with standard WordPress posts and pages, bbPress topics, replies, and forum descriptions, and BuddyPress activity updates and activity comments. It embeds direct image file URLs when the content is displayed, while keeping the saved content as the original URL. Data and privacy Forward: Embed Image Links does not send data to an external API and does not store personal data. The plugin changes front-end display only. It keeps the original URL in the post content and outputs it as an image when the page is viewed. Visitors’ browsers will request the image from the original remote host, so that host may receive normal request details such as IP address and user agent.

Insert Pages lets you embed any WordPress content (e.g., pages, posts, custom post types) into other WordPress content using the Shortcode API. It also includes a widget for inserting pages into any widget area. The real power of Insert Pages comes when you start creating custom post types, either programmatically in your theme, or using another plugin like Custom Post Type UI. You can then abstract away common data types (like videos, quizzes, due dates) into their own custom post types, and then show those pieces of content within your normal pages and posts by Inserting them as a shortcode. Advanced Tutorial Contributor Wes Modes has graciously written an updated tutorial for the Gutenberg era, focused on creating a custom post type with custom fields and a custom template for rendering content. Read it here: https://medium.com/@wesmodes/using-wordpress-insert-pages-plugin-with-your-custom-post-types-and-custom-templates-535c141f9635 Example: Normal Use Case Say you teach a course and you’re constantly referring to an assignment due date in your course website. The next semester the due date changes, and you have to go change all of the locations you referred to it. Instead, you’d rather just change the date once! With Insert Pages, you can do the following: Create a custom post type called Due Date. Create a new Due Date called Assignment 1 Due Date with Fri Nov 22, 2013 as its content. Edit all the pages where the due date occurs and use the Insert Pages toolbar button to insert a reference to the Due Date you just created. Be sure to set the Display to Content so Fri Nov 22, 2013 shows wherever you insert it. The shortcode you just created should look something like this: [insert page='assignment-1-due-date' display='content'] That’s it! Now, when you want to change the due date, just edit the Assignment 1 Due Date custom post you created, and it will automatically be updated on all the pages you inserted it on. Example: Advanced Use Case Say your site has a lot of video content, and you want to include video transcripts and video lengths along with the videos wherever you show them. You could just paste the transcripts into the page content under the video, but then you’d have to do this on every page the video showed on. (It’s also just a bad idea, architecturally!) With Insert Pages, you can use a custom post type and create a custom theme template to display your videos+transcripts+lengths just the way you want! Create a custom post type called Video. Use a plugin like Advanced Custom Fields to add extra fields to your new Video custom post type. Add a Video URL field, a Transcript field, and a Video Length field. Create a new Video called My Awesome Video with the following values in its fields: Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 Transcript: We’re no strangers to love, You know the rules and so do I… Video Length: 3:34 Create a template in your theme so we can display the video content as we want. I won’t cover this step here since it’s pretty involved, but you can find more help in the WordPress Codex. Let’s assume you created a template called Video with transcript (video-with-transcript.php) that shows the youtube video in a fancybox, and includes a button that shows the text transcript when a user clicks on it. Edit the pages where you want the video to show up and use the Insert Pages toolbar button to insert a reference to the Video you just created. Be sure to set the Display to Use a custom template, and select your new template Video with transcript. The shortcode you just created should look something like this: [insert page='my-awesome-video' display='video-with-transcript.php'] That’s it! Now you can create all sorts of video content and know that it’s being tracked cleanly in the database as its own custom post type, and you can place videos all over your site and not worry about lots of duplicate content. The possibilities are endless!