Connect your Website to a JSON-API:
Get JSON, render it with a template and display livedata on your WordPress site!
The plugin parses almost any JSON feed and allows you to display all data on your website: Import data from an API / Webservice to display it on your website.
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Generate lots of Custom Post Pages with Custom Post Fields (CPF) and Taxonomies out of a Custom Post Types, defined by Pods, Toolset or with the WordPress-pages/posts.
- Use these Custom Post together with Elementor to create datadriven-websites!
Generation with Shortcode: Step-by-Step Explanation | Generation with twig-code: Step-by-Step Explanation
- Increase you’re user’s, customer’s and fan’s interest by providing updated and relevant data everytime they visit your site
- Save time by using the JSON Content Importer to display dynamic, search engine crawlable content in the look and feel that matches your website and improve your SEO
1st example: Show data from Wikipedia.org in your WordPress (see also at api.json-content-importer.com):
2nd example: Jenny is managing the WordPress-website of a local public library. She’d like to add a list of the currently nationwide best selling books.
Herefore, she has two options: to manually update this list every now and then – or to simply connect her WordPress to a datasource providing this list.
The second option is much more convenient: Read more on how Jenny spared herself hours and hours of work over the months with this plugin.
If you have an focus on a API you ask yourself: Is this plugin of any help using this special API?
The answer is: Maybe, that depends… 😉
Complex applications can be created with the PRO-Version of the plugin and an API:
This helps:
Have a look onto the Supportpage for this Plugin with a growing collection of APIs and typical API-situations.
And:
Ask your questions and get support: Click here and post your needs at https://jsoncontentimporter.freshdesk.com…
There you have a very good chance to get support by Bernhard Kux
This Website supports both the free and PRO-Version and shows how to run both versions.
Feel free to include great data on your website without needing to spend a cent and freely use the free plugin for personal or commercial projects without any strings attached.
I don’t require any attribution for the free version, but it is always appreciated 😉
If you love the plugin, you can also make a donating – whatever it’s worth for you. Thank you for your using and appreciating my plugin!

217298 Downloads
63 Ratings: 98%
Free Features:
- Simple to use without requiring you to code
- Customizable: use a template to look however you like
- JSON feed content is crawlable by search engines adding SEO value to your site
- Embed feeds via shortcode into your page, post or widget anywhere on your website
- Debug-Mode: Just add debugmode=10 to othe Shortlink and see what’s happening
- Cache the JSON-feed: retrieve once, use many times
- e.g.: Show events from the JSON feed with name, date/time, location and description
- support and ongoing development
- handling of a wider range of JSON-feeds / APIs
- enhanced template engine: the plugin-own engine is better, the famous twig-engine is the PRO-alternative
- template-manager: store templates independent of pages
- display as widget at the sidebar or footer
- build applications: select JSON-feed on the fly
- create WordPress-Pages
- third-party shortcodes work inside the jsoncontentimporter-shortcode
- but: you have to purchase a licence – which has to be renewed yearly – licences prior to Dec 30 2017 are valid without timelimits
- no risk: full refund within 14 days after purchase – without any questions
- and a lot more…
The above numbers for version, downloads and rating are livedata from the wordpress.org API – the shortcode with the free version is as following:
[jsoncontentimporter url=”https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/json-content-importer.json”]Version: {version}, {downloaded} Downloads, {num_ratings} Ratings: {rating}%[/jsoncontentimporter]