Embeds a remotely hosted content. Contributors can edit a tiny piece of your blog text externally, without having ANY access to your website.
As of April 2026, Hosted Content Importer (HCI) is a WordPress Gist plugin with 20 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Gist All-In-One Marketing – Live Chat….
It imports third party hosted contents within WordPress blog. You can define from which url/resource to fetch the content. The original source may be editable by anyone else whom you trust. Thus, it logically empowers you to allow other users to externally edit a particular section of your blogs. And, you do not have to give them any access credentials of your website.
After installation, use shortcode tag [third] with few parameters as:
[third source="markdown" id="https://goo.gl/UpclKH" section=""]
source is a content processor type.id is a URL or ID given by the third parties.section is an optional parameter to access deeper content.cache is a boolean directive whether to reuse the cached content.It will then embed remote markdown content inside your blog.
Additionally, it will…
| WordPress | 4.0.0+ requiredTested up to 5.5.18 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Please view the original development at: https://goo.gl/89KgSC for details and further plans.
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