Gather

The Gather plugin connects your WordPress site to your Gather account and embeds live obituary data on any page through three shortcodes:

• [gather-carousel] — a scrolling carousel of recent obituaries, with hover preview and a «View All» link.
• [gather-search] — a full obituary directory with text search, year filter, A–Z filter, and pagination.
• [gather-obit-subscribe] — a popup that lets visitors sign up for an email notification whenever you publish a new obituary.

When a visitor follows an obituary link, the plugin serves a server-rendered obit page at /obituaries/<slug> on your domain. The page is rendered by PHP using live data from the Gather API, with real HTTP status codes (200 for found, 301 for canonical redirects, 404 for missing) so search engines treat the page correctly.

Customers who run the Gather Remember experience on their own domain can opt into a server-side proxy that forwards /obituaries/<slug> to the full Gather Remember React app. The proxy whitelists routes by token, caches responses, and surfaces upstream errors as an admin notice.

What it doesn’t do

• The plugin does not send analytics, telemetry, or any data to Gather without a customer-initiated action. Settings only update when an admin saves them. The proxy only runs when the «Host Remember Pages» toggle is on.
• The plugin requires a normal dynamic WordPress install. It does not support static-site export workflows — obituary routing, canonical redirects, 404s, and the optional Remember-page proxy are all handled server-side by PHP at request time, which a static export can’t reproduce.

Multi-location funeral homes

Each shortcode accepts an fhkey attribute to scope the obit list to a specific funeral home, and a token attribute to use a different website token. After activation, the full reference lives in WP at Gather → Docs → Shortcode attributes.

External services

This plugin connects to Gather (https://gather.app), the obituary and memorial platform your funeral home uses. Gather is the source of the obituary data, search results, livestreams, notification sign-ups, sitemap, and — optionally — the full «Remember» memorial experience that the plugin displays on your WordPress site. The plugin is the bridge between your Gather account and your site, so it requires a Gather account and integration key to function.

It communicates with Gather’s API and content-delivery network in the following cases, and no others:

• Loading obituaries (carousel/search widgets, an obituary page, or a sitemap fetch): your WordPress server requests obituary content from the Gather API (api.gather.app for Production, api.gatherqa.app for QA), authenticated with your integration key. No personal visitor data is sent — only the request for content.
• Notification sign-up: when a visitor submits the [gather-obit-subscribe] form, their name and email address are sent to the Gather API to register the subscription. This happens only on form submission.
• Test Connection: an admin-initiated request to the Gather API to verify the integration is working.
• Host Remember Pages (off by default): when an admin enables this option, visitor requests to /obituaries/<slug> are proxied to the Gather Remember service, and that page’s static assets load from the Gather CDN (my.gather.app for Production, my.gatherqa.app for QA).
• Obituary photos shown in the widgets and pages are loaded by the visitor’s browser from the Gather image CDN.

The plugin sends no analytics or usage telemetry.

Service provider: Gather Innovations. Terms & Conditions: https://gather.app/terms-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://gather.app/privacy-policy/