Salesforce is a cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform which helps businesses to manage their customers and increase productivity by using solutions like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Analytics Cloud, etc. In addition to its collection of solutions, Salesforce provides its users with a dedicated Community Portal. Consider the following use case with WordPress, for example, sync your Salesforce objects data to the WordPress site and show it in a tabular format or as cards.

Scenario

You have a WordPress site whose Accounts are stored in Salesforce as objects. Every account has some information like Account holder name and Account Number and you want to synchronize your Salesforce objects into WordPress and display them in a tabular format or cards.

Requirements

Attribute Mapping: Successfully authorize your application with Salesforce using Object Data Sync for Salesforce Enterprise plugin and configure Object attribute mapping in the plugin. You can provide more detail here, like : You can map the Salesforce fields to their corresponding WordPress fields wherein you would like to sync these fields' data.

Components Involved

Note: To show Salesforce data on WordPress site, use Data Visualization Add-on with Object Data Sync for Salesforce Enterprise plugin. You can download the free version to check basic functionality from the link given below.

If you want the Enterprise version of the plugin or have any questions related to your use-case you can contact us at salesforcesupport@xecurify.com.

1. Object Data Sync for Salesforce Enterprise plugin is used to sync any Salesforce object details (for example, Account details that are stored as Salesforce Accounts) into WordPress.



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2. Data Visualization Add-On is used to display the Account records in tabular format or as cards. Please reach out to us at salesforcesupport@xecurify.com to integrate the add-on.

Solution

This use-case can be solved using the Object Data Sync for Salesforce Enterprise plugin and Data Visualization add-on.

WordPress Object Data Sync for Salesforce Enterprise plugin should be installed and establish a successful connection with Salesforce. After getting successfully authorized with Salesforce, you would need to create an Object Mapping in the plugin.

1. When you sync Account records from Salesforce to your WordPress site, records will be displayed into WordPress in a default format based on the selected WordPress object.
2. Use Data Visualization add-on to create a custom shortcode by selecting salesforce_records i.e., the Salesforce object whose data you would like to be visually represented and your desired layout for representation.
3. Paste the shortcode in any desired page of your WordPress site and update the page to display the synced Account record details in chosen layout format.

Conclusion

With the Data Visualization add-on, you can display Salesforce object records either in a table format or as separate cards on any page by using the generated shortcode. Additionally, you can synchronize Salesforce records into your WordPress site in real-time using the Object Data Sync for Salesforce plugin.

Additional Resources

• Setup WordPress – Salesforce Bi-directional Object Data Sync
• User Data Synchronization
• Salesforce Integrations
• WordPress Remote Users Sync
• WordPress Object Sync for Salesforce Leads
• WordPress Salesforce Communities
• WP Salesforce Password Sync
• Salesforce Web to Lead for WordPress