Masking Issue?

Hi Andy,

If you go into your WordPress admin and create a new page called “Blueprint”, you should see a Content Mask metabox underneath the content editor: https://i.imgur.com/hdSKTlI.png

You can punch in the URL down there, click the check mark to turn it on, and publish the page.

With that said, adding new Content Masks from the List View is an interesting method I hadn’t considered before, I’ll definitely look at incorporating something like that into the next release. Thanks for the feedback, and let me know if you need any further assistance!

Hi Andy,

I just wanted to let you know that I have taken the opportunity to incorporate your suggestion of adding new Masks directly from the Admin Panel: https://i.imgur.com/Z5kdFhA.png

Hopefully this will make it a little easier to create new masks, especially for first-time users!

I can’t figure out the first thing how this plugin works.
Can you please visit https://denirodinero.com/world-news/ and show me on example how to do it?
Thanks in advance and have a happy New Year!

Hi @lukasklimt – There’s not much I can show you on your own site, but you’re free to try a demo on xhynk.com/content-mask!

If you sign in to https://xhynk.com/content-mask/wp-admin using “demo” as the username and “demo” as the password, you can then add a mask to test it out.

Click on “Content Mask” in the left hand menu. In the blue box at the top of the page is a section to create a new mask.

First, Choose a masking method (either Download, or iFrame, both explained in detail here: xhynk.com/content-mask/#details).

Second, give your page a name, this is because it will create a post or page with that name (and related slug). If you name it “Lukasklimt Test”, it will make a page at /lukasklimt-test.

Third, paste in the URL you want to be masked on this new page. You can use https://example.com if you want.

Fourth, choose a post type – usually Post or Page is good. For now, choose Page. Now click the Plus icon on the right and it will create the mask.

Now, you should have a page at https://xhynk.com/content-mask/lukasklimt-test, that instead of showing the page/theme from this site, will show the content of https://example.com instead.

It’s imperative you have a license and or are otherwise allowed to use the content you’re trying to mask. Also note some web hosts/servers don’t allow themselves to use the download or iframe method, and you’ll need to talk with their teams to whitelist your server if you’re having issues.

Hope this helps!

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Can you please explain on example news.sky.com that I have on denirodinero.com/world-news?

Do I need to set up masking for every single article one by one and then when they add new articles to set it up again, can’t I do it once for all articles on news.com or at least news.sky.com?

What you would do is open up the editor for your “World News” page, and there should be a metabox at the very bottom of the page called “Content Mask Settings”.

Paste https://news.sky.com into the “Content Mask URL” section, and click the Checkmark on the left hand side to turn it on, then click publish.

It will then embed https://news.sky.com onto your page. If you’re using the iframe method, it will just frame it in, and always show the content from that page, even as new content is posted. If you use the download method, you can set how long you would like the cache to last, and it should update automatically.

Here’s what the page should look like: https://i.imgur.com/sYhES9E.png

With that said, a cursory look at the Terms & Conditions for news.sky.com shows the following:

2.7 You will not copy, download, reproduce, republish, frame, broadcast, transmit in any manner whatsoever, any material on the Sky Site except as is strictly necessary for Your own personal non-commercial home use.

So I can’t stress this enough: Be sure to get explicit written permission from them before you embed it into your website.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Alex.

This is not embedded news.sky.com page but RSS feed…