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…
WP Consent API
WP Consent API is a plugin that standardizes the communication of accepted consent categories between plugins. It requires a cookie banner plugin and, at least, one other plugin that supports the WP Consent API. With this plugin, all supporting plugins can use the same set of methods to read and register the current consent category, allowing consent management plugins and other plugins to work together, improving compliance with privacy laws. WARNING: the plugin itself will not handle consent. It will show you how many plugins you have without Consent API support and will improve compliance on your site by ensuring smooth communication between cookie banner plugins and plugins that set cookies or track user data. What problem does this plugin solve? Currently, it is possible for a consent management plugin to block third-party services like Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, etc. But if a WordPress plugin places a PHP cookie, a consent management plugin cannot prevent this. Secondly, some plugins integrate the tracking code on the clientside in javascript files that, when blocked, break the site. Or, if such a plugin’s javascript is minified, causing the URL to be unrecognizable and won’t get detected by an automatic blocking script. Lastly, the blocking approach requires a list of all types of URL’s that tracks data. A generic API where plugins adhere to can greatly facilitate a webmaster in getting a site compliant. Does usage of this API prevent third-party services from tracking user data? Primary this API is aimed at compliant first-party cookies or tracking by WordPress plugins. If such a plugin triggers, for example, Facebook, usage of this API will be of help. If a user embeds a Facebook iframe, a blocking tool is needed that initially disables the iframe and or scripts. Third-party scripts have to blocked by blocking functionality in a consent management plugin. To do this in core would be to intrusive, and is also not applicable to all users: only users with visitors from opt-in regions such as the European Union require such a feature. Such a feature also has a risk of breaking things. Additionally, blocking these and showing a nice placeholder requires even more sophisticated code, all of which should in my opinion not be part of WordPress core, for the same reasons. How does it work? There are two indicators that together tell if consent is given for a specific consent category, e.g., “marketing”: 1) the region based consent_type, which can be opt-in, opt-out, or other possible consent_types; 2) and the visitor’s choice: not set, allow, or deny. The consent_type is a function that wraps a filter, “wp_get_consent_type”. If there’s no consent management plugin to set it, it will return false. This will cause all consent categories to return true, allowing cookies to be set on all categories. If opt-in is set using this filter, a category will only return true if the value of the visitor’s choice is “allow”. If the region based consent_type is opt-out, it will return true if the visitor’s choice is not set or is “allow”. Clientside, a consent management plugin can dynamically manipulate the consent type and set several cookie categories. A plugin can use a hook to listen for changes or check the value of a given category. Categories and most other stuff can be extended with a filter. Existing integrations Categorized, and sorted alphabetically Example plugin Example plugin. The plugin basically consists of a shortcode, with a div that shows a tracking or not tracking message. No actual tracking is done 🙂 Consent Management Providers Abconsent Sirdata CMP. Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner. Clickio Consent Cookie Consent CMP. Complianz GDPR/CCPA. Consent Studio. consentmanager. Conzent. Cookiebot. CookieFirst. CookieHub. CookieTractor. CookieYes – Cookie Banner for Cookie Consent. GDPR Cookie Compliance. GDPR Cookie Consent Plugin – CCPA Ready. GetTerms. iubenda | All-in-one Compliance. Lawwwing. Pressidium Cookie Consent. TrustArc Cookie Consent Manager Consent Requiring Plugins AddToAny. AFL UTM Tracker Plugin. Burst Statistics. Google Site Kit. Pixel Manager for WooCommerce. Woo. WP Statistics. Demo site wpconsentapi.org Below are the plugins used to set up the demo site: Complianz The example plugin javascript, consent management plugin //set consent type window.wp_consent_type = 'optin' //dispatch event when consent type is defined. This is useful if the region is detected server side, so the consent type is defined later during the pageload let event = new CustomEvent('wp_consent_type_defined'); document.dispatchEvent( event ); //consent management plugin sets cookie when consent category value changes wp_set_consent('marketing', 'allow'); javascript, tracking plugin //listen to consent change event document.addEventListener("wp_listen_for_consent_change", function (e) { var changedConsentCategory = e.detail; for (var key in changedConsentCategory) { if (changedConsentCategory.hasOwnProperty(key)) { if (key === 'marketing' && changedConsentCategory[key] === 'allow') { console.log("just given consent, track user") } } } }); //basic implementation of consent check: if (wp_has_consent('marketing')){ activateMarketing(); console.log("set marketing stuff now!"); } else { console.log("No marketing stuff please!"); } PHP //declare compliance with consent level API $plugin = plugin_basename( __FILE__ ); add_filter( "wp_consent_api_registered_{$plugin}", '__return_true' ); /** * Example how a plugin can register cookies with the consent API * These cookies can then be shown on the front-end, to the user, with wp_get_cookie_info() */ function my_wordpress_register_cookies(){ if ( function_exists( 'wp_add_cookie_info' ) ) { wp_add_cookie_info( 'AMP_token', 'AMP', 'marketing', __( 'Session' ), __( 'Store a unique User ID.' ) ); } } add_action('plugins_loaded', 'my_wordpress_register_cookies'); if (wp_has_consent('marketing')){ //do marketing stuff } Service-level consent In addition to category-based consent, the API supports service-level consent control. This allows consent management plugins to grant or deny consent for specific services (like ‘google-analytics’ or ‘facebook-pixel’) independently from their category. When checking service consent with wp_has_service_consent(), the API first checks if explicit consent exists for that service. If no explicit consent is set, it falls back to the consent status of the service’s category. This enables fine-grained control: a user might accept statistics cookies in general, but explicitly deny a specific analytics service. Service consent can be checked and set both server-side (PHP) and client-side (JavaScript): PHP: //check if a specific service has consent if ( wp_has_service_consent( 'google-analytics' ) ) { //activate google analytics } //check if a service is explicitly denied if ( wp_is_service_denied( 'facebook-pixel' ) ) { //service was explicitly denied by user } //set service consent wp_set_service_consent( 'google-analytics', true ); //grant consent wp_set_service_consent( 'facebook-pixel', false ); //deny consent //listen for service consent changes add_action( 'wp_consent_service_changed', function( $service, $consented ) { error_log( "Service {$service} consent changed to: " . ( $consented ? 'granted' : 'denied' ) ); }, 10, 2 ); JavaScript: //check service consent if ( wp_has_service_consent( 'youtube' ) ) { //activate tracking } //check if explicitly denied if ( wp_is_service_denied( 'facebook-pixel' ) ) { //service denied } //set service consent wp_set_service_consent( 'youtube', true ); //listen for service consent changes document.addEventListener( 'wp_consent_api_status_change_service', function( e ) { console.log( 'Service: ' + e.detail.service + ', consented: ' + e.detail.value ); }); Any code suggestions? We’re on GitHub as well!
