Get Use APIs – JSON Content Importer
The simplest method to link WordPress with external APIs JCI simplifies the task of retrieving data from a third-party REST API. The returned JSON-, XML, CSV, TXT-data can be neatly arranged and showcased on your WordPress site via a shortcode, a JCI Block or PHP. The plugin can generate a template for the data display. 20 seconds: Load API and display data 7 minutes: Basic intro to JCI free Examples, Preview Check out the live demonstration to explore how we’re interfacing with various APIs LIVE PREVIEW – WordPress and a external API Video: How to use the Wikipedia API Main Plugin Features Low code usage: Save time and avoid coding using an API Insert an API-URL into Step 1: Data is loaded, and and displayed. Save it as API-Access-Set. Use the API-Access-Set in Step 2 to create a Shortcode Optional for maximum flexibility: Use the API-Access-Set n PHP code Insert an API-URL into the JCI Block: Data is loaded, and a template can be generated to display the data. Easy to start: Check Installation – Is your WordPress ready for JCI? Most probably! Basic Settings: Check SSL, Cacher, Gutenberg and Authentication ContactForm7 Integration: Populate CF7 forms with JSON data and forward CF7-submitted data to an API. Use the JCI cacher to avoid many API requests JCI-Block : Use the simple JCI Block interface to get data! Query the API and check the response. Then utilize the simple template generator inside the JCI Block to use the data! Contact Form 7 Integration: Fill form and submit to API Important Note Starting with Version 2.0.11 Starting with version 2.0.11, any HTML code present in the shortcode or block is filtered to prevent dangerous code (e.g. JavaScript) from being output. However, if you want to allow certain tags or attributes as a deliberate choice: In the plugin’s “Basic Settings” there is a field called “Allow additional HTML tags (advanced)”. There you can enter comma-separated tags that should not be filtered out. For example, “iframe,script” would preserve these two tags in the HTML output. “tr#onclick” would preserve the “onclick” attribute in ”, which would otherwise be removed. Documentation There’s a wealth of resources and support at your fingertips. Explore the articles listed below to begin your journey: JCI Manual Step 1: Access the Data Step 2: Using the Data Shortcode – Basic structure Contact Form 7 Integration Free JCI Plugin: Overview Videos Free JCI Plugin: Getting Started You need more? JSON Content Importer PRO Both the free and PRO JCI Plugins serve the same purpose: retrieving data, transforming it, and publishing the results. However, while the free Plugin can only handle basic challenges, the PRO JCI Plugin offers nearly full control over WordPress, the database, and applications. Compare: Free vs. JCI PRO Plugin PRO features: * application building by creating a searchform and connect it to a JSON-API in the background: pass GET-Variables to use a dynamic JSON-Feed-URL (“talk to API / webservice”) * much better and more flexible templateengine: twig * create and use Custom Post Types * store Templates independent of pages * more Shortcode-Parameters * executing Shortcodes inside a template * more features…
YouTubeR by Maxio lab.
The plugin allows you to upload your videos on YouTube from your website and embed YouTube videos to your website. If you posting your videos on your WordPress site you don’t neet to go to YouTube website, you can upload your videos directly on YouTube from your website admin panel. And also you can embed YouTube videos to your website with nice visual interface. Shortcode The video shortcode will display a single video with it’s info. To use it you just need the Video ID, to find it just check a normal YouTube url: In this case the Video ID is oxgnlSbYLSc, and the shortcode is: [mx_youtuber id=”Video ID”] Shortcode parameters Parameter Possible values Description id – YouTube video ID display title,date,channel,description,meta Keys of elements sepparated by commas of the parts of the video to show, set to none to only display the video thumbnail mode lightbox / embed / link Type of embeding the video theme Check the themes section The template which will be applied size default / medium / high / standard The size of the video thumbnail width number The width of the video (can be in %). Valid only in embed mode height number The height of the video (can be in %). Valid only in embed mode max_words number Limit the maximum number of words to show in the video description Themes YouTubeR comes with some pretty cool templates, this are the current options: default, dark. You can create your own custom theme for YouTubeR, to do so let’s say you set the parameter theme to custom. [mx_youtuber theme=”custom”] Then you can add your own styles to the gallery with the base class mxYouTubeR_theme_custom. If you need to customize/overwrite the code of the template you can create a folder inside your website theme with the name mxyoutuber and another folder inside it with the name of the theme you want, in this case custom. Copy the original files from themes/default inside the plugin’s folder into the mxyoutuber/custom inside your website theme, you just need to copy the files you want to customize. The logic of the plugin when searching for a file of the template custom template is as it follows: 1. The plugin will look for the file inside the website theme folder 2. The plugin will look for the file inside the plugin folder 3. The plugin will load the default theme file