AI assistants can significantly speed up the development process for extending the Remote Data Blocks WordPress plugin. This document provides a set of prompts and templates to help you create data sources and queries.
Before diving in, make sure you have a good understanding of the core concepts of Remote Data Blocks as well as the fundamentals of how and why to extend the plugin. This includes understanding how data sources and queries work as well as the overall architecture of the plugin.
When using AI to generate code, it’s crucial to provide clear and detailed context. To assist you, we compile all of the documentation and examples into a single file: /docs/for-ai.md. Make sure to include this file as context in your AI prompts.
This repo also supplies Cursor rules that can guide plugin contributors towards writing high-quality code. If you don’t use Cursor, you might consider creating similar rules for your AI assistant of choice.
Register a remote data block that displays weather data from an API. Please use the documentation in /docs/for-ai.md as context. Requirements:
- Connects to the weather REST API at
https://api.weather.com/v1/current - Uses bearer token authentication (the token should be stored in a constant called
WEATHER_API_TOKEN) - Accepts a location input (city name or zip code)
- Returns weather data including:
- Current temperature in Celcius and Fahrenheit
- Weather description
- Humidity percentage
- A calculated field called “Will it rain today?” (boolean, derived from precipitation probability > 30%)
The API response format looks like this:
{
"location": "London, UK",
"temperature": 72,
"description": "Partly cloudy",
"humidity": 65,
"precipitation_probability": 15
}Please create a new file named example/private/weather-block.php with the complete PHP code and update remote-data-blocks.php to require this file.
Register a remote data block that displays rows from an Airtable base. Please use the documentation in /docs/for-ai.md as context. Requirements:
- Connects to an Airtable base containing product information
- Uses the Airtable integration provided by the plugin
- Displays specific fields from a table called “Products”:
- Product Name (mapped to “Name” field in Airtable)
- Price (mapped to “Price” field in Airtable)
- Description (mapped to “Description” field in Airtable)
- Product Image (mapped to “Image” field in Airtable)
- Category (mapped to “Category” field in Airtable)
- Includes both single product display and list/search functionality
- Uses placeholders for the actual Airtable credentials (access token, base ID, table ID)
Please create a new file named example/private/airtable-product-block.php with the complete PHP code and update remote-data-blocks.php to require this file.
Register a remote data block that displays rows from a Google Sheet. Please use the documentation in /docs/for-ai.md as context. Requirements:
Create a remote data block that:
- Connects to a Google Sheet containing employee directory information
- Uses the Google Sheets integration provided by the plugin
- Displays specific fields from a sheet called “Employees”:
- Full Name (mapped to “Name” column)
- Job Title (mapped to “Title” column)
- Department (mapped to “Department” column)
- Email Address (mapped to “Email” column)
- Office Location (mapped to “Location” column)
- Includes both individual employee display and list functionality for browsing all employees
- Uses placeholders for the actual Google credentials (service account JSON, spreadsheet ID, sheet ID)
Please create a new file named example/private/employee-block.php with the complete PHP code and update remote-data-blocks.php to require this file.