External Content

Have you ever wanted to integrate external content such as a specific post of an external website into your WordPress website? But treat it like any other post? That is, have it appear as teaser or part of a specific (pseudo) archive?

This is exactly when External Content kicks in.

用法

External Content registers a custom post type that, by default, supports title, content, excerpt and thumbnail. This can be customized, though. Managing your posts in your backend is no different from any other post type. Create a new post, give it a title, write some text, define an individual excerpt, and set a post thumbnail, if you wish. Then assign each post an individual external URL by means of the according meta box. This external URL will be used as the post’s permalink.

Filters

In order to customize certain aspects of the plugin, it provides you with several filters. For each of these, a short description as well as a code example on how to alter the default behavior is given below. Just put the according code snippet in your theme’s functions.php file or your customization plugin, or to some other appropriate place.

external_content_args

If you want to alter a specific post type argument but you can’t find a fitting filter, there’s external_content_args, which provides you with the complete args array.

external_content_description

The post type description can be customized by using the external_content_description filter.

external_content_labels

In case you don’t like the labels, easily adapt them to your liking.

external_content_meta_key

If you want to alter the meta key for the external URL, feel free to do it via this filter.

external_content_post_type

Yes, you can also alter the post type (slug).

external_content_supports

This filter provides you with the post type supports.

external_content_use_external_url

The permalink of external content is, by default, replaced with the post’s according external URL (i.e., post meta). To disable this behavior, just do the following:

Contribution

To contribute to this plugin, please see its GitHub repository.

If you have a feature request, or if you have developed the feature already, please feel free to use the Issues and/or Pull Requests section.

Of course, you can also provide me with translations if you would like to use the plugin in another not yet included language.