Thorsten Frommen

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.
<h4>Usage</h4>
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 <code>functions.php</code> file or your customization plugin, or to some other appropriate place.
<code>external_content_args</code>
If you want to alter a specific post type argument but you can’t find a fitting filter, there’s <code>external_content_args</code>, which provides you with the complete args array.
<pre><code>/**
 * Filter the post type args.
 *
 * @param array $args Post type args.
 */
add_filter( 'external_content_args', function( $args ) {

 // Use hierarchical external content
 $args[ 'hierarchical' ] = TRUE;

 return $args;
} );
</code></pre>
<code>external_content_description</code>
The post type description can be customized by using the <code>external_content_description</code> filter.
<pre><code>/**
 * Filter the post type description.
 *
 * @param string $description Post type description.
 */
add_filter( 'external_content_description', function() {

 // Provide a description
 return 'Simple post type for handling external content like any other post.';
} );
</code></pre>
<code>external_content_labels</code>
In case you don’t like the labels, easily adapt them to your liking.
<pre><code>/**
 * Filter the post type labels.
 *
 * @param array $labels Post type labels.
 */
add_filter( 'external_content_labels', function( $labels ) {

 // A little more horror, please...
 $labels[ 'not_found' ] = 'ZOMG, no external content found!!1!!1!!oneone!!!1!eleven!1!';

 return $labels;
} );
</code></pre>
<code>external_content_meta_key</code>
If you want to alter the meta key for the external URL, feel free to do it via this filter.
<pre><code>/**
 * Filter the meta key.
 *
 * @param string $meta_key Meta key.
 */
add_filter( 'external_content_meta_key', function() {

 // Let's Shrekify the meta key
 return 'far_far_away';
} );
</code></pre>
<code>external_content_post_type</code>
Yes, you can also alter the post type (slug).
<pre><code>/**
 * Filter the post type.
 *
 * @param string $post_type Post type.
 */
add_filter( 'external_content_post_type', function() {

 return 'exotic_stuff';
} );
</code></pre>
<code>external_content_supports</code>
This filter provides you with the post type supports.
<pre><code>/**
 * Filter the post type supports.
 *
 * @param array $supports Post type supports.
 */
add_filter( 'external_content_supports', function( $supports ) {

 // If your theme uses the excerpt for teasers, just remove the editor to prevent confusion
 foreach ( $supports as $key => $value ) {
 if ( 'editor' === $value ) {
 unset( $supports[ $key ] );
 }
 }

 return $supports;
} );
</code></pre>
<code>external_content_use_external_url</code>
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:
<pre><code>/**
 * Filter the usage of the external URL as permalink.
 *
 * @param bool $use_external_url Use the external URL as permalink?
 */
add_filter( 'external_content_use_external_url', '__return_false' );
</code></pre>
<h4>Contribution</h4>
To contribute to this plugin, please see its <a href="https://github.com/tfrommen/external-content" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.
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.

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External or affiliate products are ones that have been linked to other sites or platforms other than WooCommerce. With the WPC External Variations for WooCommerce plugin, you are empowered with the ability to set up variable external products. Instead of choosing the external/affiliate product type, users are entitled to insert an external URL to any variation of a variable product and make them external variations.
<h4>Live demo</h4>
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It’s possible to customize the text displayed in the button for all external variations generally or specific variations. When customers click on the button under, the link will redirect them to the target site or open a new tab for customers to continue browsing; so the affiliation mission is completed properly.
External variations can have a normal display like a standard variable product. Buyers will see them as normal variations until the button (in the position of the normal Add to Cart button) is clicked and they are redirected. Moreover, external variations work perfectly with some variation selectors such as WPC Variations Radio Buttons & WPC Variations Table.
Another great feature that you can take advantage of with this plugin is that both external variations and standard variations can function properly under the same parent variable product. Buttons will change accordingly when buyers choose between the external and standard variations. There’s no need to worry about duplicated products or creating new products for external/affiliate purposes.
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<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited external variations per product</li>
<li>Custom button text replacement for all at once or each variation</li>
<li>Open the link in the same tab or a new tab</li>
<li>Both external and standard variations can work in the same product</li>
<li>Automatically convert out-of-stock variations into external variations</li>
<li>Display an error message when customers press the add to cart button</li>
<li>Compatible with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpc-variation-swatches/" rel="ugc">WPC Variation Swatches</a></li>
<li>Compatible with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpc-variation-duplicator/" rel="ugc">WPC Variation Duplicator</a></li>
<li>Compatible with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpc-variation-bulk-editor/" rel="ugc">WPC Variation Bulk Editor</a></li>
<li>Compatible with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpc-variations-table/" rel="ugc">WPC Variations Table</a></li>
<li>Compatible with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpc-variations-radio-buttons/" rel="ugc">WPC Variations Radio Buttons</a></li>
<li>Compatible with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpc-sticky-add-to-cart/" rel="ugc">WPC Sticky Add to Cart</a></li>
<li>Compatible with common WordPress themes, Woo plugins/add-ons</li>
</ul>
<h4>Need more features?</h4>
Please try other plugins from us:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpc-multiple-external-product-urls/" rel="ugc">WPC Multiple External Product URLs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpc-product-options/" rel="ugc">WPC Product Options for WooCommerce</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>External Service</h4>
This plugin used WordPress.org API (https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/) to get WPClever’s plugin listing once a day. It serves you to have an overall view of our plugin ecosystem and can choose the right one for your store. 
Visit https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress.org_API for this service information and terms.

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