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<p>General plugin information about news API</p>
<ul>
<li>This plugin will communicate with Zip.News’ API, fetches articles according the search widget configuration and displaying them when the widget & widget area are enabled with the help of a the news api.</li>
<li>The plugin will present the articles in a similar design to the website https://Zip.News, customizable by your theme.</li>
<li>The plugin will cache the results from the news api on your WordPress installation for a configured period</li>
<li>This plugin can be customized or extended according to the WordPress codex</li>
<li>This plugin uses a 3rd-party service (Zip.News) for the news api, so you must also comply to <a href="https://zip.news/us/agreement.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Zip.News’ Terms and Conditions</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Pre-requisites</h3>
<h3>Create an account at Zip.News</h3>
<p>Please visit https://zip.news and create an account that we’ll use for the integration with your WordPress installation.</p>
<ol>
<li>Open https://zip.news (* screenshot-2)</li>
<li>Login or create a new account (* screenshot-3)</li>
<li>Open your user menu and navigate to your Account Details (* screenshot-4)</li>
<li>On your Account Details page, please take your userID and apiToken (* screenshot-5) that we’ll use to access the news api</li>
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<h3>Plugin installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download the package from Zipnews’s website https://zip.news/wordpress-zipnews.zip or find it at WordPress’s plugin archive at https://wordpress.org/plugins/ (* screenshot-6)</li>
<li>Install the plugin and activate it (* screenshot-7)</li>
<li>Open the “Settings” page of the plugin and enter your UserID, ApiToken and configure your news API fetching period (* screenshot-8)</li>
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<h3>Widget configuration</h3>
<ol>
<li>Navigate to Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets (* screenshot-9)</li>
<li>Add the Zip.News Widget to your desired widget area</li>
<li>Configure the widget with your desired search parameters. Please consult the how to search tutorial at https://zip.news/us/howToSearch.html or ping us at https://zip.news/us/about.html in case you need an assistance. (* screenshot-10)</li>
</ol>
<h3>WordPress Developer information</h3>
<ul>
<li>This plugin will communicate with Zip.News API, fetches articles according the search widget configuration and displaying them when the widget & widget area are enabled. More info on the news api please visit https://zip.news</li>
<li>The plugin will cache the results on your WordPress installation for the configured period</li>
<li>If a custom design is needed, please check the template at <code>./templates/related-articles.php</code>. You can override it by putting a template at <code>your_theme/related-articles.php</code>.</li>
<li>There’re numerous filters used to customize the presentation:
<ul>
<li><code>widget_title</code> – this is an original WordPress filter that’s used to hook up during widget title calculation</li>
<li><code>znaw_article_href</code> – filter the URL of each article</li>
<li><code>znaw_article_title</code> – filter the title of each article</li>
<li><code>znaw_article_text</code> – filter the text of each article</li>
<li><code>znaw_excerpt_length</code> – the length of the excerpt text</li>
<li><code>znaw_excerpt_more</code> – the symbol for the “read more” if the excerpt has to be truncated</li>
<li><code>znaw_the_content</code> – filter the excerpt text of the article</li>
</ul>
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</ul>


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