This plugin helps you have more content on your website by providing blocks with positive, solutions-focused news headlines and teasers. All articles are thoroughly handpicked by the editorial team of Squirrel News. Squirrel News is a curated solutions-focused news service, run by the German nonprofit Constructive News e.V.<\/p>\n\n
The plugin provides three different blocks showing teasers of constructive news stories from a variety of different media sources, including links to the original articles on the websites of the corresponding media.<\/p>\n\n
For this purpose they can choose among three Gutenberg blocks:<\/p>\n\n
The plugin is published by Jonathan Widder for Squirrel News \/ Constructive News e.V. and developed by Anouar Ben Hamza.<\/p>\n\n
To get started, activate the plugin, choose the language on the Constructive News<\/strong> settings page, then insert one of the Constructive News blocks into a post or page.<\/p>\n\n Language note:<\/strong> English and German content are fetched from completely different source pools and countries, so switching the language will change the geographic focus and sources of the articles.<\/p>\n\n This plugin is a service-based plugin<\/strong>.\nIt connects to an external content service to fetch article data:<\/p>\n\n Without the external service response, the plugin cannot fetch fresh article content and does not work.<\/p>\n\n This plugin performs outbound requests to the Squirrel News content service to retrieve article data.<\/p>\n\n The service is operated by Squirrel News for Constructive News e.V. and is used to deliver the curated article data shown by the plugin blocks.<\/p>\n\n The plugin sends requests to the external service whenever a Constructive News block is rendered and needs article data, including in the block editor preview and on the frontend.<\/p>\n\n Data sent to the service:<\/p>\n\n Why this data is sent:<\/p>\n\n Service links:<\/p>\n\n Plugin settings data stored locally in WordPress:<\/p>\n\n External links rendered on the frontend can point to:<\/p>\n\n Site owners should review and publish their own privacy disclosures as needed for their jurisdiction and site policy.<\/p>\n\n The distributed plugin includes the original, human-readable source files used to build the JavaScript and CSS assets.<\/p>\n\n Included source and build files:<\/p>\n\n Build tools:<\/p>\n\n To rebuild the generated assets:<\/p>\n\n The plugin includes filters for customization without editing core files.<\/p>\n\n API filters:\n* Card block filters:\n* Grid block filters:\n* List block filters:\n* Example:<\/p>\n\n Yes. Fresh content is fetched from the Squirrel News content API service every 2-3 days.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. No API key is required in the current version.<\/p><\/dd>\n The plugin sends language and limit values as query parameters. Standard HTTP request metadata is also transmitted by normal web requests.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\nUse of external service<\/h3>\n\n
\n
https:\/\/getarticlesforlastissues-mdlzfg63qq-uc.a.run.app<\/code><\/li>\nlang<\/code> and limit<\/code>, plus editor-only preview\/cache parameters when blocks are previewed in wp-admin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nService and Privacy Disclosure<\/h3>\n\n
\n
en<\/code> or de<\/code>)<\/li>\n\n
\n
https:\/\/squirrel-news.net\/privacy-policy\/<\/code><\/li>\nhttps:\/\/squirrel-news.net\/imprint\/<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
en<\/code> or de<\/code>)<\/li>\n\n
Development<\/h3>\n\n
\n
src\/<\/code> contains the original block editor and frontend source code<\/li>\nbuild\/<\/code> contains the compiled production assets used by WordPress<\/li>\npackage.json<\/code> contains the build commands and dependencies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
npm<\/code><\/li>\n@wordpress\/scripts<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
npm install<\/code><\/li>\nnpm run build<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\nDeveloper Hooks<\/h3>\n\n
constructnews_api_lang<\/code>\n* constructnews_api_limit<\/code>\n* constructnews_api_payload<\/code>\n* constructnews_api_base_url<\/code>\n* constructnews_api_request_args<\/code>\n* constructnews_api_articles<\/code><\/p>\n\nconstructnews_card_block_lang<\/code>\n* constructnews_card_labels<\/code>\n* constructnews_card_behavior_flags<\/code>\n* constructnews_card_styles<\/code>\n* constructnews_card_articles_prepared<\/code>\n* constructnews_card_display_articles<\/code>\n* constructnews_card_plan<\/code><\/p>\n\nconstructnews_grid_block_lang<\/code>\n* constructnews_grid_labels<\/code>\n* constructnews_grid_behavior_flags<\/code>\n* constructnews_grid_styles<\/code>\n* constructnews_grid_articles_prepared<\/code>\n* constructnews_grid_display_articles<\/code>\n* constructnews_grid_plan<\/code><\/p>\n\nconstructnews_list_block_lang<\/code>\n* constructnews_list_labels<\/code>\n* constructnews_list_behavior_flags<\/code>\n* constructnews_list_styles<\/code>\n* constructnews_list_articles_prepared<\/code>\n* constructnews_list_display_articles<\/code>\n* constructnews_list_plan<\/code><\/p>\n\nadd_filter( 'constructnews_api_limit', function( $limit ) { return 10; } );\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> or install via the WordPress admin.<\/li>\n\n
Does this plugin require an external service?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does the plugin work without API keys?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What data is sent to the service?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
1.0.1<\/h4>\n\n
\n
1.0.0<\/h4>\n\n
\n