Smart Market Shortcodes is a simple and easy to use plugin for WordPress for embedding items and authors information from any of Envato Marketplaces into your own WordPress powered websites through use of shortcodes.

Links generated by the plugin support adding of referrer username for earning affiliate commission from new signups on any of Envato Marketplace websites.

Envato API

Plugin has support full support for new Envato API using the Personal token. To get Envato API Personal Token you need to register on Envato API website.

Integration into WordPress TinyMCE content editor

Plugin integrates into WordPress TinyMCE editor and add the button that will open easy to use dialog for building the shortcode and inserting it into editor content.

Cache Envato data for better performance

Plugin can cache all data received from Envato API, and you can control the timeout for different data types. You also have a tool to clear all cached data anytime.

Different display methods and styling

Plugin contains two basic styles and six item display methods allowing you to show items thumbnails, preview, ratings, item information. Plugin allow use of tooltip hover to show Envato like item preview.

All Main Plugin Features

  • Supports all Envato Marketplaces (currently 8 marketplaces).
  • Caching of received Envato data for faster response.
  • Log errors into file caused by problems with Envato API requests.
  • Control cache timeout for received Envato data.
  • Search for items: use marketplace, categories and search queries.
  • List marketplace items: popular, collection, new and random.
  • Sort marketplace items: random, new, old, last updated.
  • Filter returned items by minimal rating to narrow the results.
  • Get featured author and file from any marketplace.
  • Get any marketplace item by specified item ID.
  • Get multiple marketplace items by specified item ID’s.
  • Get any marketplace author by specified username.
  • Display Envato like tooltip preview for every item.
  • Display author badges using new Envato API.
  • Modify generated links rel and target attributes.

Additional Plugin Features

  • Display items using different methods
  • Comes with 12 item rendering methods
  • Comes with 3 predefined styles
  • Tools to delete all cached Envato API data
  • Supports replacing default display functions
  • Support translation and includes POT file

Envato Market Affiliate Program

The plugin now supports Impact Radius based Envato Market affiliate program. For more information, check out the PDF document in the plugin main package documentation.

Limitations

  • Plugin can’t preview audio or video previews for AudioJungle or VideoHive
  • In some cases, API doesn’t return proper image to use for the preview tooltip

System and WordPress Requirements

  • WordPress 5.5 or newer
  • PHP 7.3 or newer
  • PHP cURL extension

Documentation

Plugin contains PDF user guide in the plugin package, inside the ‘documents’ directory. Check out this document to get information on plugin options, usage and more.

Changelog

Version 3.0 / 2023.01.25.
  • New: tested with WordPress 6.0 and 6.1
  • New: tested with PHP 8.1 and 8.2
  • New: major change to the admin side layout and styling
  • New: many changes to the plugin core code organization
  • New: many improvements to the code syntax and formatting
  • New: rewritten most of the plugin styling
  • New: use of the SASS to generate styling files
  • Updated: minimal requirement: WordPress 5.5
  • Updated: minimal requirement: PHP 7.3
  • Updated: removal of the admin side JavaScript
  • Updated: using Smart Envato API Library 6.0
  • Fix: issue with initialization when token is not valid
  • Fix: several issues related to PHP 8.x
  • Fix: many minor admin side visual issues