Insert Pages vs SocialCrew Widgets

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!

SocialCrew Widgets loads the official SocialCrew widget runtime from widgets-api.socialcrew.io when a page contains a widget shortcode or the SocialCrew block. Shortcode [socialcrew_widget] with catalog parameters (type, team, league) or a direct space id. Shortcode [socialcrew_widget_saved] for presets you save under Settings → SocialCrew Widgets. Gutenberg block SocialCrew Widget to pick a saved preset. Settings screen with a shortcode builder, preview in a new window, and saved widget management. The plugin loads the space catalog from the SocialCrew widgets API (GET /plugin/v1/space-catalog) on the server. No setup is required after install—the production API URL and read-only credentials are built into the plugin. The catalog is cached briefly in WordPress transients. External services This plugin relies on SocialCrew’s hosted widget loader to render widgets in the visitor’s browser. What the service is: The endpoint https://widgets-api.socialcrew.io/load serves the JavaScript module that powers the widget UI (tables, fixtures, polls, etc.) when your site outputs the plugin shortcode or block. What data is sent and when: On each page view where a widget is embedded (or when you use the admin preview), the visitor’s browser requests that URL. Typical query parameters are space (the widget identifier), adaptive=true, and optional showHeader. The plugin does not intentionally send WordPress user credentials or private admin data to SocialCrew—only the public widget parameters needed to render the embed. Documentation (widgets product): SocialCrew Widgets Terms of Use: https://widgets.socialcrew.io/termos-de-uso Privacy policy: https://widgets.socialcrew.io/politica-de-privacidade Privacy When a visitor loads a page that embeds a SocialCrew widget, the browser requests a JavaScript module from widgets-api.socialcrew.io. Query parameters may include the widget space id, adaptive=true, and optional showHeader. On the server, the plugin may call api-v1.widgets.solutions to refresh the read-only space catalog (type/team/league to space id). That request uses credentials embedded in the plugin package; visitors never see those credentials. The plugin does not send your WordPress user data to SocialCrew by default. Site administrators configure widgets in wp-admin; only public widget parameters are used in the front-end script URL. For questions about data processed by SocialCrew’s servers, refer to the External services section above, the privacy policy at widgets.socialcrew.io/politica-de-privacidade, and the terms at widgets.socialcrew.io/termos-de-uso.