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ClubZap WordPress Plugin for managing 3rd party WordPress websites
ClubZap WordPress Plugin for managing 3rd party WordPress websites

Integrating WordPress Developed Websites with ClubZap

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Written by Declan Murphy
Updated this week

Connecting your 3rd party website with ClubZap will simplify your workload around managing and updating content such as news, fixtures and results.

This plugin is for fetching Articles, Fixtures and Results of the ClubZap platform and display anywhere in the WordPress websites.

Examples:

Installing the WordPress Plugin

  1. In order to use this Plugin, You will first need a valid Client Application Id and JSON Web Token (JWT) pair issued by ClubZap.To request API credentials for your organisation or club, please contact our support team at support@clubzap.com.

  2. Download the latest WP Plugin version here. This will appear as a .zip file which can be installed on your WordPress site.

  3. Details on implementing the WP Plugin here


​Updating the WordPress Plugin

  1. Download the latest WP Plugin version here. This will appear as a .zip file which can be installed on your WordPress site.

  2. Login to your WordPress Site

  3. Go to Plugins -> Add New Plugin -> Add New Plugin

  4. Browse to find the .zip file on your local machine and install

  5. Following installation go to Plugins -> Installed Plugins and make sure the latest version you installed of CZA Project is the activate version and Deactivate the old version.

  6. Manually synch data via CZA Grids -> API Settings -> CZA Synchronisation -> Synchronize Data


Troubleshooting - WordPress Plugin

404 Error - page not found

If you see a page not found error when you click on a news article or fixture or result for content returned on your WP Plugin form ClubZap it is most lightly an issue with your URL Slug settings on your WP Site.

Example 1:

When I clicked on a news article it was opening it up as

And I was getting a 404 Error - page not found

I tested if the following loaded the page and it did

So the fix was to change the URL Slug

By default, WordPress uses the “plain” permalink structure, as shown below.

This is done in Settings -> Perma Links on your WordPress Dashboard

Change this setting to Plain - and save it and test it works.

You can then change it back to Post name and save it and check it still works

More info here

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