Sch.gr Commons

34 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

At 1,000 active installs and a tightly defined Greek education niche, popularity is modest but proportionate to the audience this plugin actually serves.

Update Freshness

6/25

Last updated on 29 January 2025 and tested against WordPress 6.7.5, the plugin is reasonably current, though there is no visible PHP version requirement declared in the data.

User Rating

0/15

With zero user ratings submitted, there is no community signal at all, so any quality judgement has to lean on the code and maintenance footprint instead.

Support Health

8/15

No support threads have been opened, which makes the 50-point score neutral rather than positive: there is simply no evidence either way.

WP Compatibility

8/15

It declares compatibility with WordPress 4.6 through the latest 6.7.5, but the absence of a stated minimum PHP version is a minor transparency gap.

Scores higher than 0% of indexed plugins

About

Just copy/paste a URL of video from https://video.sch.gr, or a school location map from https://maps.sch.gr into your WordPress posts and see them emb …

Active Installs 1k+

Rating 0/5

Last Updated 2025-01-29 8:26am GMT

Requires WordPress 4.6+

Tested Up To 6.7.7

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Sch.gr Commons adds oEmbed support for two Greek education services, letting users paste video URLs from video.sch.gr or map URLs from maps.sch.gr directly into WordPress posts without manually inserting iframe code. It registers the necessary embed handlers so that these external resources render as native WordPress embeds in the editor and on the front end. The plugin is narrowly scoped to a single national education platform and does nothing beyond enabling those two providers.

Who It's For

This plugin is built for administrators of Greek school websites, educators publishing content on WordPress, or anyone running a site tied to the Greek Schools Network (sch.gr) who regularly shares videos and school location maps from those official services. It removes a small but recurring friction for content teams that would otherwise have to copy and paste embed code each time. It is most useful on school blogs, district communication portals, and alumni sites that lean heavily on sch.gr-hosted media.

Who Should Skip It

Anyone whose site has no connection to the Greek sch.gr education ecosystem should skip this plugin, since the embeds it enables are useless outside that context. Sites already using a general embed solution, or those that can simply paste iframe code into a Custom HTML block, will gain nothing from installing it.

The Bottom Line

Sch.gr Commons is a small, single-purpose utility that does exactly one job, enabling sch.gr video and map embeds, and the maintenance record suggests the author is still paying attention. With no ratings, no support history, and a 37.45/100 quality score, the evidence is thin, but the scope is so narrow that the lack of feedback is understandable. Install it only if your site genuinely uses sch.gr media and you want the convenience of native oEmbed behaviour.

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