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Posts Bridge 4.1

Posts Bridge 4.1 is now available. This is a major update, including many significant changes. Upgrading to 4.1 is recommended for all users.

Changes

  1. Plugin directory refactor and migration to Github
  2. Introducing the Introspection API and the OpenAPI Explorer
  3. Existing add-ons refactor
  4. New Airtable add-on
  5. New Grist add-on
  6. New Google Calendar add-on
  7. New Holded add-on
  8. Add single endpoint pattern field in the bridge schema
  9. New Bearer token credentials
  10. New CPTs settings page tab with custom fields registration table
  11. Improved Remote fields custom block integration with the WordPress editor
  12. New ajax synchronization progress bar
  13. Full support for lazy loading bridges
  14. Introducing detached synchronizations.

Introspection API

Forms Bridge introspection API is the system that introspect remote API schemas and allows auto completions and suggestions in the settings panel. With introspection, Forms Bridge can discover available endpoints for a bridge, endpoint payload fields and its type and check the status of backend connections.

Introspection API works with the OpenAPI standard and JSON schemas as representation schema. Thanks to this standards and abstractions, Forms Bridge is able to standardize how to introspect remote APIs and to feed the admin panel with useful insights to the user.

Airtable and Grist

Airtable and Grist are spreadsheet and collaboration systems that leverage the flexibility of spreadsheets with the power of databases and the ubiquity of cloud solutions. Now Posts Bridge allows you to seamlessly synchronize WordPress contents directly with Airtable and Grist tables, transforming how you manage your web contents.

Google Calendar

Google Calendar needs no introduction, is the calendar. Google Calendar brings all of your calendars together in one place, so you can manage work, personal life, and everything in between.

Now Posts Bridge allows you to synchronize WordPress posts with Google Calendar events to build online agendas and public calendars.

Holded

Holded is a cloud-based invoicing software designed to help small and medium-sized businesses streamline their operations.

Now Posts Bridge enables seamless synchronization of WordPress posts with Holded’s various modules, including products, contacts, projects and events.

Bearer credentials

In this release, Forms Bridge has renamed Bearer credentials to OAuth credentials and introduced a new Bearer token credential type.

OAuth credentials are credentials that supports Client Credentials Flow. Such credentials stores client credentials (client id and secret) and an authorization endpoints, and performs an exchange of credentials for a token with the authorization authority. When Forms Bridge gets authorized, it stores a Bearer token to authenticate its requests to the API.

On the other hand, Bearer credentials are a simplified version of this system. This type of credentials only stores the access token, but the release of this token is not derived of an exchange of client credentials. This new credential is useful for systems like Airtable or Grist, which use Bearer tokens to authenticate client requests to its APIs, but manages this tokens internally.

CPTs tab and custom fields

Posts Bridge allows you to bridge any registered post type from your WordPress site. If you’ve not registered it yet, you can register it with Posts Bridge. Go to the CPTs tab and create a new custom post type. The registration form will inherit the registration defaults, but you can modify its values at any time. The only required fields are Name, Label and Singular label.

This new panel allows you to register post meta. Simply open the Custom fields panel and register as many fields as you want. Each field will be registered as custom fields of the post type on registration time.

Detached synchronizations

This release includes major optimizations in background synchronizations and reductions in performance impacts during synchronization loops. Now, scheduled synchronizations only exchange index updates with backend APIs and detach content updates to non block ajax frontend triggers.

This new strategy allows Posts Bridge to always run full synchronizations without affecting the page load speed.

Plugin

Download Posts Bridge plugin from WordPress.org.