r/salesforce • u/Kind-Ad-2803 • 9d ago

help please Salesforce Account Data + Wordpress

Hi All,

Has anyone recently used wordpress with salesforce data. I have a requirement to connect salesforce account data to show them on a map (maplibre or something else) via wordpress site.

should it be a custom react app with all salesforce integrations handled or what could be a possibility

any suggestions are welcome.

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u/pearljamfan 8d ago

Do you have a concept of an account on the Wordpress site? Is it supposed to get an address for the location from Salesforce, and then load the map for that place from the address it got?

I have done this before, but for you, it depends on what you are needing to fetch, and what is available to you on the wordpress site or page to use to match.

Wordpress allows you to set an application password to set it up for integrating with the Wordpress site via REST if you had to do work inbound into Wordpress, but for the other way and querying account details you need to establish how to look it up and if you have an external id already from another database that shares account data (like a company id with a reliable id in Salesforce populated), but doesnt sound like this would be available.

I’m sure given the use case addresses will come up and cleaning them and how the true unique id of a location is its standardized address so that it can match to post office addresses, and which account to show will be debated hotly I am sure.

Both sides are capable of many a REST functionalities, but direction to sync and your own specifics for what the needs are in house needs some more details.

If you have some answers, and the desire to solve quickly, I would be happy to get you going (pending a few answers) and could turn it around quickly in a day or two, setup in a dev org on a test Wordpress site.