About this plugin
Help families browse course facts on your community or parenting website.
Availability varies by city, source permission and selected dates. Check coverage before connecting:
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- Free connection to the ActiKidz course service; no ActiKidz account required.
- Gutenberg block (wide and full width, theme colors, spacing, typography and compact style), Elementor widget, and [actikidz_activities config=”your-configuration”] shortcode.
- Separate city, date, age, category, count, language and layout configurations; up to ten cities per configuration. Regional areas use a separate selection when supported by the service.
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and French. Choose a fixed module language or follow the current page language. Existing saved languages stay fixed after upgrading.
- Compact filter controls keep courses visible first. Open the filter panel, choose days, categories and age, then apply them together. Cancel leaves the existing results unchanged. Weekdays / Weekend shortcuts use the same behavior as the ActiKidz website.
- New configurations default to Directory mode, which provides course pages when the service supports pagination. Configurations upgraded from 0.1.0 retain a Summary view so existing article layouts do not unexpectedly expand; change Browsing mode explicitly to use Directory. Summary mode offers a same-site “Browse all courses” link independently of the optional brand credit. Class and session pagination remain separate from course pages.
- Course and class links lead to the provider’s official registration page; courses offered on ActiKidz link to their ActiKidz course details. Where only a course-level provider link is available, visitors are asked to choose the class on that website. Links can be disabled per configuration.
- Source-name links are on by default and can be disabled separately. Optional ActiKidz brand credit is off by default.
- Plain text facts: no provider images or full promotional descriptions. Unknown price, age or availability is labelled rather than invented.
- Default loading retrieves course fragments from your own site after the page loads. The page shell contains no course facts for a full-page cache to retain. A same-site browsing link works without JavaScript.
- Local scripts and styles only: no ActiKidz visitor tracking scripts, cookies, images, fonts or iframes. Visitors’ browsers request course data from your WordPress site; WordPress contacts ActiKidz.
- Source check times are separate from local cache retrieval. Course facts have a hard expiry; a successful cache refresh does not mean the original provider was checked again.
- Saved configuration names retain aliases when renamed, so existing shortcodes continue to resolve. Duplicate and export settings without exporting connection credentials.
- Connection diagnostics appear in settings and Site Health. Visitors receive a retry or browsing route instead of technical credentials or server errors.
- Single-site WordPress only; Multisite is not supported.
Do not infer that a city is covered from the plugin being installed.
External service
ActiKidz is required for course data. Activation makes no external request.
The site administrator must explicitly connect under Settings > ActiKidz Activities. Administrator-initiated coverage and city searches may contact the public service before connection; these actions do not register an installation.
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Requests are made by your WordPress server, not the visitor’s browser. Visitor filter choices (days, categories, age range) are sent as part of the course query, cached per module (at most 64 combinations), and new uncached filter searches are limited to 30 per minute for the whole site.
The plugin does not forward visitor IP addresses, user agents, cookies or email addresses.
Course title links (on by default) lead to the provider’s official registration page; courses offered on ActiKidz link to ActiKidz and may carry signed source attribution.
Source-name links (on by default) lead to the provider’s website. Either can be turned off for each configuration.
Courses from sources that publish under an open-data licence show that licence’s attribution statement and a link to the licence. This is a licence requirement and cannot be turned off.
Visitors choose analytics consent on ActiKidz; a link click is not proof of course enrollment.
Optional brand credit can remain off regardless of the course-link setting.
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Updating
org listing, updates use a fixed-version ZIP from the introduction page; automatic directory updates are not promised.
Back up the site and export each configuration before updating. Use Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin and choose to replace the installed version. Do not delete the existing plugin first, because uninstall removes settings.
Check existing pages, saved filters and language settings after updating. 0.
The settings export contains configuration data, not credentials; it is a maintenance record, not a supported cross-site import package.