Streekpanel

Description

Streekpanel is a Dutch platform for local and regional broadcasters (lokale omroepen). Newsrooms use it to build a reader panel, run surveys and polls, and send newsletters to the people in their region.

This plugin connects your WordPress site to your Streekpanel account. Editors insert a survey or a sign-up form with one click, from the classic editor or the block editor. No embed codes to copy, no HTML to paste.

What you can do

• Insert a survey. Use the “Insert survey” button next to “Add Media” in the classic editor, or the Streekpanel block in the block editor.
• Insert the sign-up form for your reader panel, your newsletter, or both.
• Search your surveys by title. Closed surveys stay out of the list unless you ask for them.
• Rename without worry. The plugin remembers the fixed number of a survey, not its address. When the address changes, the plugin finds the new one.
• Stay online when Streekpanel is not. The plugin keeps the last good answer from Streekpanel, so surveys you already inserted stay visible.
• No scroll bars. The survey grows and shrinks with its content, so it reads as part of your article.
• Back to the top of the survey. When a visitor goes to the next page, or after sending, the page scrolls back to the survey.

Safe for your newsroom

• The connection key stays on your web server. It never reaches the browser of an editor or a visitor.
• Only people who can edit posts see the button and the list of surveys.
• Surveys only appear on websites you allowed in Streekpanel. The plugin warns you when your site is not on that list yet.
• The plugin sets no cookies. For a survey, a random number is stored in the browser of the visitor, so Streekpanel can see whether someone already took part. It contains no personal data.
• One small script, loaded only on pages with a survey or sign-up form.

Shortcodes

The button and the block cover most needs. You can also type a shortcode yourself, for example in a page builder or a widget:

• [streekpanel enquete="123"] shows survey 123. You find the number in the address of the survey in Streekpanel.
• [streekpanel aanmelden="beide"] shows the sign-up form for the panel and the newsletter. Use panel or nieuwsbrief for only one of them.

You need a Streekpanel account

This plugin connects to the Streekpanel service. You need an account for your broadcaster at streekpanel.nl. Without an account the plugin does nothing.

Streekpanel itself is in Dutch. This plugin is available in English and Dutch.

External services

This plugin connects to Streekpanel, the service that hosts your surveys and sign-up forms. It is needed to list your surveys in the editor and to show them on your site.

1. Listing what you can insert (from your web server). When an editor opens the insert window or the Streekpanel block, or when an administrator clicks “Test connection”, your web server asks Streekpanel which surveys and sign-up forms can be embedded. It sends your connection key, the name of your broadcaster and the host name of your website. Streekpanel answers with the titles, addresses and status of your surveys. The plugin keeps that answer for one hour. When a page with a survey is shown, your web server refreshes it at most once an hour, and once more when it meets a survey it does not know yet.

2. Showing a survey or form (from the browser of the visitor). On a page with a survey or sign-up form, the browser of the visitor loads it from streekpanel.nl in a frame. Streekpanel receives what any website receives, such as the IP address and browser details. For a survey, the random number described above is sent along to prevent double answers. What a visitor fills in goes to Streekpanel and is processed for your broadcaster.

• Terms of use: https://streekpanel.nl/voorwaarden
• Privacy statement: https://streekpanel.nl/privacy