Title: Remote Post Swap
Author: TyB
Published: <strong>April 14, 2017</strong>
Last modified: April 17, 2017

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
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# Remote Post Swap

 By [TyB](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tyb/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/remote-post-swap.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/remote-post-swap/#description)
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 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/remote-post-swap/#developers)

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## Description

This plugin was built for developers to swap out local post data with post data 
from a live site. Useful if you need to make some styling changes to post content
but don’t want to pull in the live database. Simply enter the URL for the live site
and turn on the API connection via the toggle provided.

All posts within the loop are replaced with posts from the URL you entered. This
will change out the post title, post content, post excerpt and post date with the
returned API data. This plugin will **NOT** replace your the post data in the database,
but simply change out the data on the fly. To go back to your the posts saved locally
simply uncheck the toggle switch on the settings page.

Post meta is used to store post IDs returned from the API call and matched up with
the post IDs returned from your loop. This helps keep posts consistent across page
loads. Single post pages will return the same post they were swapped out with in
the main loop.

**NOTE:** This plugin requires the parent site (the live site) to be running at 
least WordPress Version 4.7.0 for the REST API to work properly.

### Usage

 1. After plugin activation go to the plugin settings page by hovering over the “Settings”
    menu item in wp-admin.
 2. Click on the ‘Remote Post Swap’ link.
 3. Check the toggle box shown.
 4. Enter the URL to the live site you wish to pull posts from. This should be a valid
    URL.
 5. Turn on which post data you wish to replace (Post Title, Post Excerpt, Post Content,
    Post Date, Featured Images)

### To Do

 1. Pull in author data.
 2. Pull in post comments.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Upload the `remote-post-swap` directory to your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Remote Post Swap” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ TyB ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tyb/)

[Translate “Remote Post Swap” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/remote-post-swap)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/remote-post-swap/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/remote-post-swap/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/remote-post-swap/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/remote-post-swap/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.8.0

 * Major performance enhancements & code optimization

#### 0.7.0

 * Add in the ability to allow plugin users to choose which post data is swapped
   with remote post data (options page)
 * Rewrite the admin classes to allow for separation of logic/display
 * Add psr4 autoloader to autoload PHP classes without using require/include
 * Separate the featured image functions from the replace-wp functions for better
   organization

#### 0.6.0

 * Re-wrote the replace-wp class to only make a maximum of 2 API calls per loop.(
   Performance enhancement)

#### 0.5.0

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.8.0**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.7.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.7.33**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/remote-post-swap/)
 * Tags
 * [database](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/database/)[posts](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
   [remote](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/remote/)[swap](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/swap/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/remote-post-swap/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ TyB ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tyb/)

## Support

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