Hosted Content Importer (HCI)

Includes a third-party content within WordPress blog texts.

This plugin is a for a solution to a specific problem. WordPress developers should expand the $processor->fetch() interface to make it work for their application.

Built On, using

• WordPress: Version 4.5.2
• MariaDB Version 10.1.13
• PHP: Version 7.0.5
• Apache: Version: 2.4.18

Others

• Gist - for embeding gist snippets
• JotForm - for embeding web forms
• Parsedown - for rendering .md files

Experimental Work

• It is an experimental and proof-of-concept work.
• This work may not suit your purpose, by its nature.

Usage examples

• [third source="PROCESSOR" id="ID/URL" section="" cache="true|false"]

Implemented

• [third source="analytics" id="UA-00000000-0" section=""]
• [third source="database" id="0" section="0"] - partially developed, left for developers
• [third source="file" id="/tmp/static.txt" section=""]
• [third source="gist" id="0000000000" section="file.php"]
• [third source="jotform" id="0000000000" section=""]
• [third source="markdown" id="https://.../readme.md" section=""]
• [third source="youtube" id="v0000000000" section=""]

Work|Concepts in Progress

• [third source="api" id="0" section="0"]
• [third source="url" id="0" section="0"]
• [third source="wikipedia" id="PHP" section="Security"]
• [third source="wikipedia" id="At_sign" section="Programming"]

Parameters

• Source: Where to seek the data (eg. Content Hosting Server). Examples:
  • markdown
  • wikipedia
  • database
  • url/api
  • file
• ID: Content ID (unique identifier) of the data you want. Often, full URL as well.
• Section: Additional parameter to identify the particular section (piece) of the content.

Dependency

• Uses Parsedown to mark down the HTML output.

Deployment

• Published publicly as a WordPress Plugin
• View SVN Repository
• Active development takes in GitHub only