About this plugin
Smart Content Sync lets you create reusable content blocks and insert them consistently across posts, pages, and WooCommerce products — without copy‑pasting.
Instead of duplicating content everywhere, you create it once as Smart Content and reuse it manually or automatically, while keeping a single source of truth.
This plugin is designed for performance, editorial control, and long‑term scalability.
Development / Source Code
This plugin ships compiled assets in /dist for performance.
Human-readable source is included in /resources.
Build instructions:
1) npm install
2) npm run build (or “npm run dev” for the dev build)
Core concepts
- Smart Content = reusable content blocks (custom post type)
- Single rendering pipeline for frontend, editors, previews, and auto‑insert
- Predictable behavior with explicit rules (no magic, no surprises)
Features
Smart Content Blocks
- Dedicated Smart Content custom post type
- Centralized editing with live preview
- Internal notes for editors (never shown on frontend)
Editor Integrations
- Classic Editor
- TinyMCE button to insert Smart Content
- Gutenberg
- Dynamic Smart Content block
- Shortcodes
- [smart_content id="123"]
- [smart_content slug="shipping-policy"]
Auto Insert (v1.0 Free)
Automatically inject Smart Content at predefined locations.
Supported locations:
* WordPress content
* Prepend to content
* Append to content
* WooCommerce
* Single product page locations
Runtime guarantees:
* WordPress:
* Runs on is_singular() only
* No archives
* WooCommerce:
* Single product pages only
* Never runs in:
* Admin
* REST requests
* Feeds
* Previews
Ordering:
* Auto‑inserted blocks render in Smart Content order
* Ordering is stable across saves and index rebuilds
Performance:
* Uses an internal option‑based index
* Avoids slow meta queries at runtime
Smart Variables
Smart Content supports context‑aware variables via a unified rendering pipeline.
Available contexts include:
* Site
* Post / Page
* WooCommerce product
* Shortcode attributes (sanitized as plain text) + trusted server-derived metadata
Rendering is consistent across:
* Frontend
* Editors
* Previews
* Auto‑insert
SEO Analysis Compatibility (v1.0)
- Smart Content manual inserts are visible to SEO analyzers
- Server-side rendering ensures analyzers see expanded HTML (not placeholders)
- Draft-aware analysis:
- Unsaved editor changes are included during SEO analysis
- Supported SEO plugin:
- Yoast SEO
0:
* Auto Inserted Smart Content is not yet included in SEO analysis
* Additional SEO plugins (Rank Math, AIOSEO) are planned for future releases
Permissions & Safety
- Dedicated capabilities for Smart Content
- Rendering guarded against:
- Admin screens
- Feeds
- REST contexts
- SEO analysis requests
Settings
- Central Settings page under Smart Content
- Uninstall behavior option:
- Optional deletion of Smart Content posts on uninstall
Uninstall Behavior
By default, uninstalling Smart Content Sync will:
* Remove internal caches and runtime options
* Preserve all Smart Content posts and metadata
You may optionally enable deletion of Smart Content posts from:
Smart Content → Settings → Uninstall
Extensibility
Smart Content Sync exposes filters and hooks for:
* Auto‑insert locations
* Rendering behavior
* Smart Variable contexts
* Permissions and guards
0 behavior.
License
This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.