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Kasirye Arthur

<p>FetchWire pulls live posts from any external WordPress site — titles, featured images, excerpts, categories, dates, and author names — and displays them beautifully on your own site. Results are cached locally so your site stays fast.</p>
<p>No RSS, no iframes, no plugin needed on the source site. Just a source URL and a layout choice.</p>
<p><strong>Now works in Elementor AND Gutenberg.</strong> As of version 1.3.0, FetchWire ships a native WordPress block — search for “FetchWire News” in the block inserter and drop it anywhere on your page. No Elementor required.</p>
<p>FetchWire is the go-to solution for university portals, corporate news hubs, church networks, and niche blog aggregators that need to pull content from other WordPress-powered sites and present it seamlessly on their own.<br />
<strong>The 5 Layouts</strong></p>
<h4>Cards Grid</h4>
<p>The classic editorial grid. Each post renders as a white card with a featured image on top, a category badge overlaid at the image bottom, a bold title, an excerpt, the publication date, and a “Read more” arrow. Choose 2, 3, or 4 columns. Cards lift slightly on hover.</p>
<h4>Magazine</h4>
<p>One large hero post fills the left column with its featured image as a full-bleed background and the title, excerpt, and date overlaid on a dark gradient. The remaining posts stack in a compact sidebar list on the right, each with a small thumbnail and two-line title. On tablets the sidebar drops below the hero as a two-column strip; on phones it becomes a single-column list.</p>
<h4>List</h4>
<p>A numbered, editorial-style list. Each row shows an index number, a landscape thumbnail, the category badge, a bold two-line title, a one-line excerpt, and the date. An animated arrow on the right nudges right on hover. Best for dense, scannable feeds.</p>
<h4>Overlay</h4>
<p>Dramatic full-bleed image cards where the category badge, title, and date are laid over a dark gradient at the bottom of the image. Portrait aspect ratio on desktop relaxes to landscape on phones. Cards scale up slightly on hover. Choose 2, 3, or 4 columns.</p>
<h4>Ticker</h4>
<p>The most compact layout. Numbered rows with a small square thumbnail, the category badge (optional), the post title on one line (truncated with ellipsis), the date, and a right-pointing chevron. Ideal for sidebar widgets or footer news strips. Alternating rows have a subtle background tint.</p>
<p><strong>All Layouts Share</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Category name resolved automatically from the source REST API — no manual ID lookup needed for display</li>
<li>Optional category badge, date, section heading, subheading, and “View All” link</li>
<li>Per-widget accent colour override, falling back to the active theme’s <code>--color-accent</code> CSS variable</li>
<li>No-image fallback placeholder showing the post title’s first two initials on a dark gradient background</li>
<li>Outgoing links open in a new tab with <code>rel="noopener"</code></li>
<li>Fully keyboard-navigable anchor elements</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Performance & Developer Notes</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Responses are cached using the WordPress Transients API (configurable from 15 minutes to 24 hours per widget)</li>
<li>The plugin stylesheet is registered but only enqueued on pages that actually contain the widget, via Elementor’s <code>get_style_depends()</code> API</li>
<li>No JavaScript — all interactivity is pure CSS transitions</li>
<li>CSS custom properties (<code>--fw-accent</code>, <code>--fw-radius</code>, <code>--fw-gap</code>, <code>--fw-shadow</code>) on the widget wrapper make theme integration straightforward</li>
<li>Follows WordPress coding standards throughout: <code>esc_html()</code>, <code>esc_url()</code>, <code>esc_attr()</code>, <code>wp_kses_post()</code>, <code>absint()</code>, and <code>sanitize_text_field()</code> on all inputs and outputs</li>
<li><code>uninstall.php</code> cleans all plugin transients from <code>wp_options</code> on deletion</li>
</ul>
<h3>Widget Settings Reference</h3>
<h4>Source (Content Tab)</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Section Heading</strong> — Optional heading rendered above the feed (e.g. “Latest News”). Leave blank to hide.</li>
<li><strong>Subheading</strong> — Optional subtitle rendered below the heading.</li>
<li><strong>Source Website URL</strong> — The full URL of any WordPress site with its REST API enabled (e.g. <code>https://example.com</code>). Required.</li>
<li><strong>Number of Posts</strong> — How many posts to fetch. Range: 1–50. Default: 6.</li>
<li><strong>Excerpt Length (words)</strong> — Word count for the auto-generated excerpt. Range: 5–100. Default: 18.</li>
<li><strong>Cache Duration</strong> — How long fetched data is cached before a fresh request is made. Options: 15 min, 30 min, 1 hr (default), 3 hr, 24 hr.</li>
<li><strong>Category ID (optional)</strong> — Numeric ID of a category on the source site to filter posts by.</li>
<li><strong>Tag ID (optional)</strong> — Numeric ID of a tag on the source site to filter posts by.</li>
<li><strong>“View All” URL</strong> — If set, renders a “View All <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span>” link aligned to the right of the section heading.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Layout (Content Tab)</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>View</strong> — Visual selector for the 5 layouts: Cards, Magazine, List, Overlay, Ticker.</li>
<li><strong>Columns</strong> — Number of columns for the Cards and Overlay layouts (2, 3, or 4). Not applicable to Magazine, List, or Ticker.</li>
<li><strong>Show Excerpt</strong> — Toggle excerpt display on Cards, Magazine, and List layouts.</li>
<li><strong>Show Category Badge</strong> — Toggle the red category pill across all layouts.</li>
<li><strong>Show Date</strong> — Toggle the publication date across all layouts.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Style (Style Tab)</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Accent Color</strong> — Overrides the category badge colour, “Read more” link colour, and hover highlights. Defaults to the active theme’s <code>--color-accent</code> CSS variable, then <code>#c8102e</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Card Border Radius</strong> — Slider controlling the corner radius on cards, list items, and overlay cards. Default: 12 px.</li>
<li><strong>Title Typography</strong> — Full Elementor typography group control for post titles.</li>
<li><strong>Excerpt Typography</strong> — Full Elementor typography group control for excerpt text.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>FetchWire makes server-side HTTP requests from your WordPress installation to the REST API of the source WordPress site you configure (<code>/wp-json/wp/v2/posts</code>). These requests are made using <code>wp_remote_get()</code> and fetch only publicly available post data (titles, excerpts, featured images, categories, dates, and author names).</p>
<p><strong>No visitor data is collected, transmitted, or stored by this plugin.</strong> All fetched data is cached locally in your WordPress database via the Transients API and is scoped to your server — it is never sent to any third party.</p>
<p>All transients created by FetchWire are automatically removed from your database when the plugin is deleted via <strong>Plugins <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Delete</strong>.</p>
<p>If you have questions about the data practices of the external WordPress site you are fetching from, please refer to that site’s own privacy policy.</p>


FetchWire — Remote News Feed for Elementor & Gutenberg

Pull posts from any WordPress site into 5 beautiful layouts. Works in Elementor and Gutenberg. No plugin needed on the source site.

ben.moody

<h4>Are you a content creator, freelance author, or SEO content marketer?</h4>
<p>Do yo need to syndicate content to your client’s WordPress sites?</p>
<p>Want to make content marketing to multiple clients a breeze?</p>
<p>Automatically add Canonical links back to original content!</p>
<p>Content Syndication Toolkit allows you to syndicate content to multiple client sites automatically.</p>
<p>Just create an account for each client, publish your post and all the content, categories, tags and images will be pushed to all registered clients. This is a content marketing wordpress plugin which makes mass content syndication quick and simple.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IDhMirwfnLc?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h4>Perfect for Content Marketing, Auto Canonical meta and link generation!</h4>
<p>Plugin automatically adds a canonical link to the ‘head’ every imported post at the clients end. It also adds a link back to the original post at the end of the content:</p>
<p>e.g. This article was first published on http://benjaminmoody.com.</p>
<h4>Need More? Go Pro and create your own Subscription Based Content Syndication Network!</h4>
<ul>
<li>Clients can signup, subscribe, and pay for subscriptions via a client portal on your site!</li>
<li>Segment posts into content subscription groups for clients to subscribe to.</li>
<li>Create exclusive content for a single client.</li>
<li>Clients can manage own subscriptions via client portal.</li>
<li>Charge what you want for each subscription group.</li>
<li>Client payments process via PayPal.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://benjaminmoody.com/downloads/content-syndication-toolkit-pro/?bm_plugin_wp_repo=frontpage" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn More about Content Syndication Toolkit Pro</a></p>
<h4>This is NOT an RSS aggregator plugin!</h4>
<p>All requests for content are authenticated with a username and password exactly like a WordPress login. This means that only clients that you have registered can access the content.</p>
<h4>Need to stop content going to a client?</h4>
<p>Just remove their account or change the user group. You are in control of who can receive your content.</p>
<h4>Full complete content import</h4>
<p>When a push is made to a client’s site, WordPress will import not only the post content (title, content, excerpt, meta data) it will also import any categories and tags applied to each post. As the images, the client plugin will detect all images used in each post and import those images directly into the client’s media library!</p>
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Just install this ‘master’ plugin on in your WordPress install.</li>
<li>Now create some client accounts, works just like adding any other WordPress user. Remember to add their website URL into the website field!</li>
<li>Provide your client with their account username and password, as well as your website URL</li>
<li>Direct your clients to download the ‘Content Syndication Toolkit Reader’ plugin and enter in their account login.</li>
<li>Create your posts under the new ‘Syndication Posts’ post type.</li>
<li>Each time your publish a ‘Syndication Post’, the plugin will automatically push the post content to all registered users!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Speed is key</h4>
<p>Content Syndication Toolkit is designed to ensure your master server does as little work as possible when pushing out content. All it does is ‘ping’ each client with a simple quick http request. The client server then jumps into action, authenticating with the master server which runs a quick query and provides a list of content to import.</p>
<p>The client site then does the heavy lifting, importing the post data and downloading any images from your server without WordPress getting involved, thus keeping server load to a minimum.</p>
<h4>Problems? Got you covered</h4>
<p>Sometimes web servers go down or take a while to respond. If there is any issue with pushing content to a client, the plugin will send an email to you with the details of the error and it will also send an email to the client admin with instructions on how to manually pull in the content using the client plugin admin options.</p>


Content Syndication Toolkit

Content Syndication Toolkit allows you to syndicate content to multiple client sites automatically. Posts, Categories, Tags, and Images.

FetchWire — Remote News Feed for Elementor & Gutenberg vs Content Syndication Toolkit