Share content between your websites.
Distributor is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to distribute and reuse content across your websites — whether in a single multisite or across the web.
You can learn more about Distributor's features at DistributorPlugin.com and documentation at the Distributor documentation site.
Note: The latest stable version of the plugin is the stable branch. Download the stable branch if you are intending to use the plugin in a Production environment.
Distributor supports safe, SEO-friendly content reuse and sharing via "pushing" and "pulling".
While logged in and editing or viewing any single post (or custom post type) that can be distributed, a Distributor admin bar item will appear, that will facilitate sharing ("pushing") that content to any connection.
In the admin dashboard, a top level Distributor menu item links to the "pull" screen. Here, editors can share ("pull") content from any connection into the current site.
Content this is distributed (via Push or Pull) is connected to the original. Reposted content receives updates from the original, canonical source automatically.
There are two connection types: internal and external.
Distributor > External Connections. Administrators can decide which user roles are allowed to distribute content to and from that connection (Editors and Administrators by default). All users with those roles will inherit the permissions of the user account used to establish the remote connection.Distributor is built with the same extensible approach as WordPress itself, with fully documented hooks and filters to customize its default behavior and create custom distribution workflows. You can even create connections to other platforms.
For Production use, we recommend registering and downloading the plugin from DistributorPlugin.com – it's 100% free. You will be emailed a direct link to download the latest, production-ready build. Alternatively, you can download the latest release from GitHub.
You can upload and install the archived (zip) plugin via the WordPress dashboard (Plugins > Add New -> Upload Plugin) or manually inside of the wp-content/plugins directory, and activate on the Plugins dashboard.
To help inform our roadmap, keep adopters apprised of major updates and changes that could impact their websites, and solicit opportunities for beta testing and feedback, we’re asking for a little bit of information in exchange for a free key that unlocks update notifications and 1-click upgrades inside the WordPress dashboard. Your information is kept confidential. You can register here and input your key in Distributor settings in the dashboard (network dashboard for multisite users). Note that you need to input the email address you used to register Distributor (included in the email with your registration key) as that is linked to the registration key.
Distributor > External Connections and click Add New.remotesite).https://remotesite.com) for your remote site below the External Site URL and press the Authorize Connection button.remotesite.com if you are not already logged into remotesite.com and then redirected to the Authorize Application screen.Roles Allowed to Push are the ones you want to support, update if necessary, then press the Update Connection button.There are two methods for distributing content between multiple WordPress sites, Push and Pull. Pushing allows you to share content from your site to one or more connected sites while Pulling allows you to bring content into your site from one of your connected sites. In either method, once content has been distributed it will stay in sync with any changes made to the origin post (when Pushing the origin is the site being Pushed from, when Pulling the origin is the site being Pulled from).
The Distributor menu in the WP Admin Bar will appear after a piece of content has been published. Hovering over that menu item will expose the Push menu that displays the list of connected sites on the left, the list of sites that have been selected for push distribution on the right, and a button to Distribute the content to those selected sites.
The same Push menu and set of Distributor options are also available after publishing a piece of content within the WordPress Block Editor.
After you click the Distribute button, Distributor will push the content to the selected connected sites, showing a View link when those pieces of content have been distributed, and noting Post successfully distributed. once the content has completed distributing to selected sites.
When viewing that piece of content in the Block Editor, there will be a Distributor notice in the Status & visibility section noting how many sites the content has been distributed to.
The same Push menu is available in the WP Admin Bar if you are using the Classic Editor. The Distributor notice is also available in the Publish metabox noting how many sites the content has been distributed to.
Navigating to the Distributor > Pull Content screen in the WP Admin will present you with a dropdown to select any of the sites you are connected to and will display all available pieces of content that can be Pulled into the current site. You can select Posts, Pages, and other Custom Post Types to filter on this screen; you can use the Bulk Edit menu to Pull or Skip more than one piece of content at a time; and you can use individual row actions on each piece of content pull, view, or skip each piece of content.
After you have Bulk Pulled several pieces of content or used the row actions to Pull a single piece of content, the Pull Content screen will show a confirmation message that the Pull action was successful and redirect you to the Pulled list view to see all the items that have been pulled into the current site. The same process will happen if you opt to Skip specific piece(s) of content.
You can navigate to the Posts > All Posts table list view to see all content that has been pushed or pulled to the current site via the Distributor column denoted with the Distributor icon (). Rows that include the Distributor icon will link off that icon to the origin site and post where that content was either pushed or pulled from.
With external connections, HTTP requests are sent back and forth - creating posts, transferring images, syncing post updates, etc. In certain situations, mostly commonly when distributing posts with a large number of images (or very large file sizes), using poorly configured or saturated servers / hosts, or using plugins that add significant weight to post creation, Distributor requests can fail. Although we do some error handling, there are certain cases in which post distribution can fail silently. If distribution requests are taking a long time to load and/or failing, consider adjusting the timeout; you can filter the timeout for pushing external posts using the dt_push_post_timeout filter. More advanced handling of large content requests, and improved error handling is on the road map for a future update.
A distributed post includes all of the post meta from the original version. Sometimes arbitrary post meta references an ID for another piece of content on the original site. Distributor does not "bring along" the referenced content or update references for arbitrary post meta (it will take care of updating references in the case of core WordPress features, such as the featured image ID). This issue is very common when using field management plugins like Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). This can be addressed on a case-by-case basis by extending the plugin. Distributor provides the distributor_register_data helper function for stored ID handling. Additionally, for external connections, you can manually handle post meta associations using the dt_push_post hook. For internal connections, use the dt_push_post hook. Note that while named the same, these hooks accept different parameters.
Distributor often deals with data stored as ID references. This is common in WordPress, where IDs are used in block attributes, shortcodes, or post meta by popular plugins like ACF, Elementor, and Gravity Forms. However, when content is distributed to another site, these stored IDs may not match, leading to data loss or unexpected content.
To address this, Distributor provides a helper function: distributor_register_data. This function allows developers to register data references, specify where the data is located, define how to extract the ID, and register callbacks to process the data on both the source and target sites. More
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