AboutBuzz

<p>AboutBuzz Stories Embed allows you to easily embed video stories and reviews from AboutBuzz.com into your WordPress site. The plugin provides a responsive carousel display with lazy loading for optimal performance.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Responsive carousel display</li>
<li>Lazy loading for better performance</li>
<li>Mobile-optimized video playback</li>
<li>Like functionality for user engagement</li>
<li>Secure API integration</li>
<li>Rate limiting to prevent abuse</li>
<li>Caching for improved performance</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Go to Settings > AboutBuzz Activation</li>
<li>Enter your secret code provided by AboutBuzz</li>
<li>Use the shortcode <code>[aboutbuzz_reviews code="YOUR_CODE"]</code> in your posts or pages</li>
</ol>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or higher</li>
<li>Valid AboutBuzz secret code</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the AboutBuzz.com API to display video stories and handle user interactions. The plugin communicates with AboutBuzz’s external services under the following circumstances:</p>
<h4>AboutBuzz API</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Service:</strong> AboutBuzz.com video stories and validation service</li>
<li><strong>When data is sent:</strong>
<ul>
<li>During plugin activation to validate your secret code</li>
<li>When loading video stories for display</li>
<li>When users interact with like/vote functionality</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Data sent:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Secret code for validation</li>
<li>Brand IDs to fetch relevant stories</li>
<li>Site URL for authentication</li>
<li>User interactions (likes/votes)</li>
<li>Plugin version information</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>API endpoints used:</strong>
<ul>
<li>https://aboutbuzz.com/wp-json/aboutbuzz/v1/validate-code/ (validation)</li>
<li>https://aboutbuzz.com/wp-json/aboutbuzz/v1/stories/brand/ (story content)</li>
<li>https://aboutbuzz.com/wp-json/aboutbuzz/v1/like-post/ (user interactions)</li>
<li>https://aboutbuzz.com/wp-json/aboutbuzz/v1/like/ (like functionality)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy and Terms</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Terms of Service:</strong> https://aboutbuzz.com/terms-of-service/</li>
<li><strong>Privacy Policy:</strong> https://aboutbuzz.com/privacy-policy/</li>
</ul>
<p>All data transmission occurs over secure HTTPS connections. The plugin implements rate limiting and caching to minimize API calls and protect user privacy.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, please visit https://aboutbuzz.com or contact our support team.</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the AboutBuzz API to fetch video stories. The following data is transmitted:<br />
– Secret code (provided by you for authentication)<br />
– Brand IDs (specified in shortcodes)<br />
– Site URL (for validation purposes)<br />
– Plugin version (for compatibility)<br />
– Post IDs (when users like stories)</p>
<p>No personal user data is collected, stored, or transmitted by this plugin. All user interactions (likes) are anonymous and only post IDs are sent to update counters.</p>
<h3>Third-party Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to AboutBuzz.com external services to provide video story functionality. This connection is essential for the plugin to work properly.</p>


AboutBuzz Stories Embed


As the developer of AboutBuzz Stories Embed, I wanted to make setup super simple. Just add the shortcode and your reviews show up instantly. Seeing it work smoothly on mobile was a top priority, and the play/pause and like buttons really bring the reviews to life.



We’ve put a lot of effort into fast, helpful support — happy to hear it made a difference during setup. I’m excited to keep improving the plugin based on your feedback!



— The AboutBuzz Team


Proud of how easy this turned out!

Embed AboutBuzz video stories using shortcode. Supports lazy loading and responsive design.

Paul Fernhout

cfkurtz

<p>NarraFirma is companion software to the textbook <a href="http://www.workingwithstories.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Working with Stories in Your Community Or Organization: Participatory Narrative Inquiry</a>.</p>
<p>Participatory narrative inquiry is an approach in which groups of people participate in gathering and working with raw stories of personal experience in order to make sense of complex patterns for better decision making. PNI focuses on the profound consideration of values, beliefs, feelings, and perspectives through the recounting and interpretation of lived experience.</p>
<h4>What is NarraFirma?</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<p>It’s a checklist. NarraFirma provides practical guidance as you work, with questions for you to answer, recommendations based on the conditions you describe, activities that help you make decisions, and just-in-time advice.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>It’s a journal. NarraFirma helps you keep careful records about what happened in your project, and it gives you places to reflect on what happened. This reminds you to keep learning as you work, and it helps you to document your project for future reference.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>It’s a kiosk. NarraFirma helps you collect stories, on-line and/or off-line, based on question forms you design (with sample questions you can copy). Because story collection is integrated, there is no need to export or import data.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>It’s a workstation. NarraFirma helps you explore and interpret patterns in your data (stories and answers to questions about stories), creating annotated visualizations you can use to make sense of the stories you collected.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why choose NarraFirma?</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<p>It’s portable. You can install NarraFirma anywhere, as a WordPress plugin or a Node.js web application. Web hosting is inexpensive, popular, and well supported. You can also install NarraFirma on your local computer and use it off-line. (Whichever installation method you choose, we strongly suggest that you set up SSL security on your web site before collecting or entering confidential or important information. Many hosting providers can help you with this task.)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>It’s a team player. With NarraFirma your team can work on projects together in real time without having to hand files back and forth. You can plan your project, collect stories, discover patterns, and reflect on what you’ve learned – together.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>It’s an open book. NarraFirma is open source software. So if you have a question about how something works, you can just look at the source code to find out. If you need the software to do something it can’t do, you can add new functionality yourself or ask someone else to add it.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>It works in the real world. One NarraFirma installation supports multiple projects, forms, data sets, and reports. Why? Because real-life story projects are rarely simple or predictable. So go ahead and make a mess. NarraFirma is ready for it.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>We have spent a lot of time developing NarraFirma. We appreciate donations, and will use them to keep working on it. You can donate at <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=DGVVDT2D49QA8" rel="nofollow ugc">PayPal</a>.</p>
<h3>Need some help?</h3>
<p>I offer training in the use of NarraFirma and consulting for PNI projects. If you are interested, check out my web site at <a href="cfkurtz.com" rel="nofollow ugc">cfkurtz.com</a>, or send me a note at cfkurtz at cfkurtz dot com.</p>


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