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I’m proud to announce the public release of Airpress, a plugin for Wordpress.org websites!

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Airpress gives you access to all your Airtable data, allowing you to create Wordpress websites that are fully integrated with your precious Airtable data. Read more on http://wordpress.org/plugins/airpress

Do you think you’ll install the Airpress plugin?

  • Nope. I’m good with Airtable
  • Nope. I don’t have a Wordpress website
  • Sure. I might give it a try sometime
  • Yes! I need to display Airtable data right now!

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Nat
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

@Chester_McLaughlin & thread fyi we added Airpress to resource directory here: https://builtonair.com/resources - good work!

Bess_Wadler
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

So, my clients’ wordpress.com site just let me install Airpress! Looks like you got sufficiently “popular” :slightly_smiling_face:

Matthew_QUINN
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Is there any way to add a featured image using the airpress shortcodes?

Hi Chester, is it possible with this plugin to get data from a Form and create a record??
Thanks in advance

Hello @cesar_nates, best way would probably be to integrate Airtable Form directly in your WordPress page.

Otherwise, if you are willing to use a WordPress Contact Form plugin, the try to find a Form plugin that has an integration with Zapier or Integromat and connect it to Airtable that way.

Will probably be easier that use AirPress for that task. (even if I really like AirPress for lots of other tasks :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: )

Florian

I would use a Webhook to notify an Airtable automation.

Tom_Keysers
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

Hi @Chester_McLaughlin I’m just wondering, since the plugin hasn’t been updated in quite a while (not officially tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress, even though I can testify it still works with recent wp versions), are you planning on maintaining this plugin?
Or should I/we start thinking about forking this project?

Thanks in advance, and also a big thanks for what this plugin has meant so far – a lot!

For all those who are interested, someone has opened up a topic on the Airpress plugin page stating he’d we willing to take up maintenance and open it up for community involvement: Security Update | WordPress.org

He has already forked it on Github and fixed a security issue: GitHub - Basicbydesign/airpress
I advise everyone to go check it out and start using this version!

And everyone who’d like to be involved in the maintenance is very welcome to leave a message through the plugin page or Github. It would be great for this plugin to have multiple contributors (unless @Chester_McLaughlin revives – I hope he’s doing well) :slightly_smiling_face:

Stephane_Menet
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

Hi there,

As I already posted on the AirPress support, we decided to develop a new plugin to link WordPress & Airtable. We worked hard to try to be as good as this one.

Thanks @Tom_Keysers for your message and your work on the fork ! :slightly_smiling_face:

For now, we focused on Add-ons for Gravity Forms and Contact Form 7 but our plugin “Airtable WP Synch” will be available very soon. :slightly_smiling_face:
We hoped as well to release several add-ons to connect Airtable with others WordPress plugins forms such as JetPack or Ninja Forms.

Please go here to be notified :

Thanks !

Joe_Hewes
7 - App Architect
7 - App Architect

Hmm looks like Airpress is no longer available for download - it’s been removed from the Wordpress plugin catalogue since April 22nd 2022 :frowning:

source: Airpress – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

Any thoughts of a revival @Chester_McLaughlin ?

Yes. At minimum basic security updates and testing with latest wordpress so that it stays afloat. I’m working to carve out the time to make that happen. When I released this as my first open source project I didn’t count the cost of ongoing maintenance and support and I have obviously struggled with that.

That’s great news - thank you so much :100:

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 ? :confused:

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 :slightly_smiling_face: :

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 ! :slightly_smiling_face:

Stephane-DK
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

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