Sondy

Sondy adds provider and location directory shortcodes to your WordPress site, powered by the Sondy API. Display searchable provider and location listings, detail pages, and pretty URL rewrites.

SEO built in

Every provider and location gets its own indexable URL (for example /providers/jane-doe/) with:

• Its own title, meta description and canonical URL.
• Open Graph and Twitter card tags using the provider or location photo.
• Schema.org JSON-LD for the provider or location, linked to a ProfilePage / WebPage and a BreadcrumbList.
• An entry in the XML sitemap, including the profile photo.

Works with All in One SEO, Yoast SEO and Rank Math

When All in One SEO, Yoast SEO or Rank Math is active, Sondy hands its data to that plugin instead of printing its own tags, so each page has exactly one title, description, canonical, set of social tags and schema graph. Provider and location URLs are added to the SEO plugin’s sitemap (All in One SEO page sitemap, or /pd-providers-sitemap.xml listed in the Yoast / Rank Math sitemap index) and to its breadcrumbs. Without an SEO plugin, Sondy prints the equivalent tags itself and adds a WordPress core sitemap.

Shortcodes

• [powr_providers] – provider directory and provider profiles on one page.
• [powr_provider_directory] / [powr_provider_detail] – provider directory and profile separately.
• [powr_locations] – location directory and location profiles on one page.
• [powr_location_directory] / [powr_location_detail] – location directory and profile separately.
• [powr_provider_card slug="jane-doe-dc"] – one linked provider card, for service pages and blog posts.

External services

This plugin relies on the following third-party services.

Sondy API

All provider, location, filter and brand data is loaded from the Sondy API at the base URL you enter under Settings → Sondy. Requests are made from your server (never from the visitor’s browser) whenever a directory or profile page is viewed, when a sitemap is generated, and when you click “Test connection”. Each request sends your API token and, for profile pages, the requested provider or location slug. No visitor data is sent.

• Terms of service: TODO_SONDY_TERMS_URL
• Privacy policy: TODO_SONDY_PRIVACY_URL

Google Fonts

The directory loads the Inter typeface from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / fonts.gstatic.com). The visitor’s browser requests the font files, which sends the visitor’s IP address and user agent to Google.

• Terms of service: https://developers.google.com/terms
• Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Maps

When a location has a map configured, its detail page embeds a Google Maps iframe, and “Directions” links open Google Maps. Loading the embed sends the visitor’s IP address and user agent to Google.

• Terms of service: https://www.google.com/intl/en/help/terms_maps/
• Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

YouTube and Vimeo

When a provider has an introduction video from YouTube or Vimeo, the video is embedded only after the visitor clicks “Video Introduction”. The visitor’s browser then connects to that video service.

• YouTube terms: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms – privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Vimeo terms: https://vimeo.com/terms – privacy: https://vimeo.com/privacy