Get Use APIs – JSON Content Importer

79 Quality Score

Active Installs

17/30

With roughly 5,000 active installs it is a mid-sized utility plugin, well known within the API-connector niche but far from a mainstream tool, which keeps the popularity component modest.

Update Freshness

25/25

Maintenance is excellent: it was updated on June 21, 2026, and shows a perfect score, indicating the author is actively patching and improving the code.

User Rating

15/15

The 98 out of 100 rating from 78 reviewers is very strong and suggests that users who try it tend to be satisfied with the result.

Support Health

8/15

Support threads are limited (only 2 in total, both resolved), which limits confidence but the 100% resolution rate and the activity of the developer offset that concern.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Compatibility is perfect on the tested axes, supporting PHP 7.0+ and WordPress 5.3 through 7.0, though PHP 7.0 is itself end of life and worth noting for new deployments.

Scores higher than 70% of indexed plugins

About

Connects an API to WordPress: Get API-data (JSON, XML, CSV...), show it with a Shortcode, a JCI Block or PHP. Generate a template with the JCI Block

Active Installs 5k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.9/5

Last Updated 2026-09-02 5:24am GMT

Requires WordPress 6.9+

Tested Up To 7.1

Requires PHP 7.0+

Security History

4 known vulnerabilities, all patched

4 Medium

Most recent: March 19, 2026

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What It Does

Get Use APIs – JSON Content Importer connects your WordPress site to external APIs and renders the returned JSON, XML, or CSV data on the front end via a shortcode, a Gutenberg block, or direct PHP calls. It includes a visual template builder inside the block editor, so you can map API fields to your layout without hand-writing markup. In practice it turns any data feed (property listings, stock prices, weather, job posts) into editable WordPress content.

Who It's For

This plugin is a good fit for developers, technical site owners, and small agencies who need to pull third-party data into WordPress without building a custom integration from scratch. It works well for niche sites such as real estate portals, sports stats pages, travel aggregators, and crypto or stock dashboards where the data lives outside WordPress. Users comfortable with shortcodes, basic template syntax, or block editing will get the most out of it.

Who Should Skip It

If you just need a static table on a page or post, a simpler plugin like TablePress is faster and easier to learn. Anyone who needs one-off bulk imports of CSV or XML files into WordPress as native posts, custom fields, or users should look at WP All Import or Import and export users and customers instead, since this plugin is built for live API display, not bulk ingestion.

The Bottom Line

JSON Content Importer earns an overall quality score of 78.77 out of 100 and is a capable, actively maintained option for live API display in WordPress. Its combination of a block-based template builder, shortcode, and PHP entry points makes it flexible, though the relatively small install base and very limited support thread history mean you should be comfortable working somewhat independently. It is a strong choice for technical users who specifically need to render external JSON, XML, or CSV feeds on the front end.

Pick TablePress when your data is already in a spreadsheet or comes from a fixed source and you just need a clean, sortable table without any live API call.

WP All Import – Drag & Drop Import for CSV, XML, Excel & Google Sheets 84/100

Choose WP All Import when you want to import external files into WordPress as real posts, pages, or custom post types rather than display live API data.

Import and export users and customers 83/100

Use this importer specifically when your goal is onboarding users or customers from CSV files, which is outside JSON Content Importer's scope.

XML Sitemap & Google News 83/100

Pick XML Sitemap & Google News when you need search engine sitemaps, not a general-purpose API-to-page display tool.

wpDataTables – WordPress Data Table, Dynamic Tables & Table Charts Plugin 83/100

Choose wpDataTables if your priority is rich, charted, and queryable tables from a database or file source, with less focus on live API templating.