Zip.News API

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Demo widgets here General plugin information about news API 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. The plugin will present the articles in a similar design to the website https://Zip.News, customizable by your theme. The plugin will cache the results from the news api on your WordPress installation for a configured period This plugin can be customized or extended according to the WordPress codex This plugin uses a 3rd-party service (Zip.News) for the news api, so you must also comply to Zip.News’ Terms and Conditions Pre-requisites Create an account at Zip.News Please visit https://zip.news and create an account that we’ll use for the integration with your WordPress installation. Open https://zip.news (* screenshot-2) Login or create a new account (* screenshot-3) Open your user menu and navigate to your Account Details (* screenshot-4) On your Account Details page, please take your userID and apiToken (* screenshot-5) that we’ll use to access the news api Plugin installation 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) Install the plugin and activate it (* screenshot-7) Open the “Settings” page of the plugin and enter your UserID, ApiToken and configure your news API fetching period (* screenshot-8) Widget configuration Navigate to Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets (* screenshot-9) Add the Zip.News Widget to your desired widget area 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) WordPress Developer information 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 The plugin will cache the results on your WordPress installation for the configured period If a custom design is needed, please check the template at ./templates/related-articles.php. You can override it by putting a template at your_theme/related-articles.php. There’re numerous filters used to customize the presentation: widget_title – this is an original WordPress filter that’s used to hook up during widget title calculation znaw_article_href – filter the URL of each article znaw_article_title – filter the title of each article znaw_article_text – filter the text of each article znaw_excerpt_length – the length of the excerpt text znaw_excerpt_more – the symbol for the “read more” if the excerpt has to be truncated znaw_the_content – filter the excerpt text of the article