Coverground

Coverground lets organisations publish guided walking and cycling routes. This plugin connects your site to your Coverground account and adds a Coverground route block: pick one of your published routes (or paste its web address into an empty paragraph) and the block builds a card — cover photo, title, a facts line, and a “Follow this route” button.

The card is made of ordinary core blocks (image, heading, paragraph, buttons), so you can restyle it, rewrite it, extend it with your own blocks, or delete parts of it. It follows your theme’s colors and typography. Because the card saves as plain core blocks, your posts keep rendering even if you disconnect or deactivate this plugin.

Because your cards are yours, the plugin never rewrites them. Instead, a daily check compares your cards against Coverground and tells you in the WordPress admin when a route changed after you placed its card, when a card points to a route that is no longer published, and when your Coverground subscription has lapsed. Each block also shows this inline in the editor, with a one-click reload.

Two things worth knowing before you install: Coverground’s map covers the Netherlands at the moment, so that is where routes can be built. A free Coverground account publishes two routes; paid plans add more.

External services

This plugin requires Coverground (https://coverground.eu), a service where organisations build and publish walking and cycling routes. The plugin uses it to list your published routes and to fill the route cards. All requests are made by your WordPress server from the admin; your public pages load nothing from Coverground.

• Connecting (Settings → Coverground): you sign in on app.coverground.eu. Your site then sends the one-time approval code to app.coverground.eu and receives a read-only access token. Your site’s domain is added to your allowed embed domains on Coverground.
• In the block editor and once a day (WP-Cron): your site sends the access token to api.coverground.eu to read your route list, route card data and subscription status.
• Loading a card: the route’s cover photo is downloaded from Coverground and stored in your media library.
• Disconnecting: your site sends the access token to api.coverground.eu to revoke it.

The plugin adds no scripts, cookies or tracking to your pages and sends no data about your visitors. The “Follow this route” button is an ordinary link. A visitor who follows it is on Coverground, which counts route opens anonymously, without cookies, as described in its privacy statement.

This service is provided by Coverground, a trade name of Jeroen Smeets (Houten, the Netherlands).

• Terms of service: https://coverground.eu/terms/
• Privacy policy: https://coverground.eu/privacy/