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WBS Connect for Dataverse, now on WordPress.org: a Dataverse-backed collection grid rendered on WordPress

WBS Connect for Dataverse is now listed in the official WordPress.org plugin directory. It publishes records from any Microsoft Dataverse table as lists and detail pages on a WordPress site, and writes form submissions straight back into Dataverse. The plugin is free, and it exists because of a pricing problem.

The problem it solves

Microsoft Power Pages is a capable portal product with licensing that works against public-facing sites. You pay per authenticated user and per anonymous page view, so the bill grows with your traffic rather than with the value you get. For most public sites backed by Dataverse, that math stops adding up the moment the site succeeds.

The records already live in Dataverse. The front end does not have to cost like a portal. WBS Connect for Dataverse serves the same data from a WordPress site on standard hosting, through the official Dataverse Web API, with the records staying exactly where they are. Dataverse remains the single source of truth; only the presentation layer moves.

What the free plugin does

Point it at a table, choose the columns, and drop a shortcode on a page. Collections render as card grids, single records as detail pages with clean URLs. Site forms create records directly in your tables, protected by a honeypot and rate limiting, with no inbox in the middle. Authentication is server-side through an Entra ID app registration and a least-privilege application user; credentials never reach the browser. Reads are cached and fail open, so a Dataverse outage never blanks the site. All output runs through templates a theme can override.

We run it in production ourselves: the property listings on this site are published from Dataverse through this plugin, and enquiries flow back as records.

The Pro tier

For teams running this in earnest there is now a Pro tier at a flat 19 euro per site per month, billed yearly. It adds multiple environment connections for dev, test and prod, certificate-based authentication instead of client secrets, submission capture from Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms and WBS Forms, and multisite support, with priority support included.

Licensing is a signed offline token. The plugin verifies it locally on your server; there is no phone-home, no telemetry, and no per-user metering anywhere in the product. Visitor sign-in with record-level personalization is next on the roadmap as a Business tier.

Get started

Install the free plugin from the WordPress.org directory, or read the full feature and pricing overview on the product page. If you are weighing a move away from a Power Pages portal, the cost comparison shows the licensing math side by side, and we offer a migration assessment that maps your portal onto WordPress and Dataverse before you commit to anything.

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