That’s great news - thank you so much

Welcome back @Chester_McLaughlin!

Thank you so much for creating AirPress and making it available.


I use AirPress as the glue for an Airtable portal for a small organization with a microscopic budget, and it works beautifully.

That is awesome to hear.

Yeah, maintaining/supporting code can take as much if not more time than initially developing the code. And monetizing a WordPress plugin takes a lot of effort as well, with no guarantees.

There is less of a need for AirPress now that there are portals such as Softr, Pory, MiniExtensions, and Stacker. But those services all have monthly services fees, and AirPress has a unique system that allows for a lot more flexibility to someone familiar with WordPress and html/css.

Best of luck with whatever path you choose to take with AirPress.

Hi @kuovonne


The plug-in is no longer available. What tool should we use to replace it ?

There is a wide variety of tools for creating a website with Airtable data: Softr, Pory, Glide, Webflow, etc. You can search these forums for more info.

Hi Joffrey, you can use Air WP Sync which is a brand new WordPress plugin and very promising :

Thank you ! Glad someone has done a good tool ! I’ll check this out.

I hope you’ll love it.


Feel free to send us any feedback by email at hello@wpconnect.co !

@Joe_Hewes @kuovonne, feel free to download and install it as well. Any feedbacks are welcome !


@cesar_nates, you can use Gravity Forms or Contact Form 7 add-ons (WP Forms, Ninja Forms and Formidable Forms are coming soon) :

Looks great at first look. Any hint on your pricing before we get too involved?

If you kinda know what you’re doing – you can still get it, or one of its forks, from github.

We have some ideas of pricing but still not precisely. I don’t want to say anything wrong or announce something I can’t keep in public, here !


But drop us an email at hello@wpconnect.co and I will send you a range of prices we think about.

I have not installed the plug in and do not know if I will have time. Here is feedback based on viewing the screenshots.

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  Have you changed the API key that was exposed in your screen shot?

  
  
  



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  Does the plug in ever write data back to Airtable? If not, could one use the API key of a free read-only user for increased security?

  
  
  



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  Can you use field IDs instead of field names? I’m guessing the answer is yes since you are probably just passing the text string to the rest api.

  
  
  



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  It looks like you pass the content of the page/post as a single text string. Therefore, does Airtable need to have content of the page/post in a single field? E.g. a page with complex formatting, images, embeds, etc. would need to have the html formed in Airtable.

  
  
  



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  How do you display errors? For example, if a field does not exist or has an invalid value for its mapping?

  
  
  



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  AirPress has the ability to design content using shortcodes. This lets people design complex layouts with Airtable data without coding html on Airtable. Does this plug in support that? Is it a future plan?

  
  
  



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  When setting a featured image, do you expect a single image in an attachment field? What if there are multiple images in the attachment field? Do you upload the image to the WP media library? If so, do you delete old images from the library or are there other ways to keep the media library clean? What if the field for the featured image is a url field?

  
  
  



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  I am also curious about pricing

  
  
  

I tried it out and it works great. Any chance of starting a new topic @Stephane-DK so we don’t completely hijack this Airpress thread?

Thanks for you interest and questions @kuovonne.

Here are some answers :

*** Have you changed the API key that was exposed in your screen shot?***

Yes, we have. :winking_face:

*** Does the plug in ever write data back to Airtable?**

No, only our add-ons for Contact Form 7 and Gravity Forms do it.

*** If not, could one use the API key of a free read-only user for increased security?**

Yes

*** Can you use field IDs instead of field names? I’m guessing the answer is yes since you are probably just passing the text string to the rest api.**

No because Airtable API returns fields by names

*** It looks like you pass the content of the page/post as a single text string. Therefore, does Airtable need to have content of the page/post in a single field? E.g. a page with complex formatting, images, embeds, etc. would need to have the html formed in Airtable.**

Yes, we expect the user to import a single field with rich text

*** How do you display errors? For example, if a field does not exist or has an invalid value for its mapping?**

The error will be displayed below the sync button on the detail connection page, and also in the logs (in /wp-content/uploads/airwpsync-logs)

*** AirPress has the ability to design content using shortcodes. This lets people design complex layouts with Airtable data without coding html on Airtable. Does this plug in support that? Is it a future plan?**

Currently no but why not. We believe new tools now available in WordPress like Full Site Editing allow you to create your own layouts without coding. We are also considering a Gutenberg mapping to build a complex page layout from multiple Airtable fields

Finally @kuovonne, here are our answers regarding your questions about images and pricing :

If there are several images in the Airtable image field then no problem, it is simply the first image (the leftmost one inside the Airtable field) that is taken into account.


Yes, the images are actually uploaded to the WP image gallery.


These same images are not deleted from the WP gallery if the image is deleted in Airtable (the same thing happens when you permanently delete any WP post containing a featured image).


The mapped field for the image must be an Attachment Field, otherwise the mapping is not possible and there is an error message which appears directly under the “Sync Now” button.


So if it’s an image URL rather than an image field, it’s not supported at the moment.


It’s also complicated to type the fields, or maybe one of the solution would be to have a checkbox to say “this field contains an image URL that needs to be imported” which adds some user config.

For pricing, drop me an email at hello@wpconnect.co, I’ll be happy to answer with price range for now as I did for Joe.

Great ! I’m glad you tried it out and liked it.


You’re completely right, here is the new topic : Launch of Air WP Sync, a WordPress plugin to import and sync data from Airtable to WordPress

Just checking in to see if this is still in process? I’m getting warnings from Airtable now that my Airpress powered site is gonna break when the API changes regarding attachments come in to play in November.


Let me know if I need to jump ship at this point :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

It's still available on Github. Use at your own risk though.

I'm wondering, which solution did you go for instead, if any?

Hi, In case anyone needs help in modifying their aipress plugin to allow integration with Airtable using Personal access tokens, ping me. I have played with this plugin and can easily convert it from API to personal access token integration. Also, I can help you clean the code and make it secure.

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