SRM Embed (Smart Report Maker)

SRM Embed is a professional WordPress report builder plugin that allows you to easily and securely add MySQL reports, dashboards, charts, KPIs, and pivot tables to your site.
It is designed for businesses, developers, and analysts who need to create custom reports in WordPress directly from their MySQL or MariaDB databases.
SRM Embed allows you to add advanced reporting and business intelligence capabilities to WordPress in an easy-to-use and secure way by connecting it to Smart Report Maker.
Because everything is built directly on top of your database, you can create and display a wide range of reports depending on your data, including WordPress financial reports, WordPress inventory reports, and WordPress customer reports.
In this setup, SRM acts as a WordPress reporting plugin that brings structured database reporting into your site.
Depending on how you use it, it can serve as a WordPress reports plugin, a WordPress data analysis plugin, or a WordPress business intelligence plugin. This makes it a practical Power BI alternative for WordPress for teams that want full control over their data.
More information about the SRM Embed plugin

With SRM Embed, you can display the following directly inside your WordPress site:

• Professional, database-driven reports generated directly from your data, including sales, financial, inventory, and customer reports, making SRM suitable as a reliable WordPress reports plugin for real business use cases.
• Linked WordPress reports allow you to connect multiple reports within your WordPress site to form a report chain that delivers deeper insights. For example, you can seamlessly drill down from a customer report to their invoices, and then to their related support tickets.
• Interactive dashboards that bring reports, graphs, KPIs, and pivot tables together in a single view, inside your site.
• Visual charts and analytics, such as sales performance charts across any time period with drill-down capabilities, allowing you to drill into a specific day to view its sales performance. SRM can be considered a professional WordPress charts plugin that can create many chart types, such as bar charts, time-series charts, line charts, pie charts, donut charts, spline charts, scatter charts, area charts, and gauge charts.
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that surface critical metrics and support ongoing monitoring and insights, making SRM useful as a WordPress data analysis plugin for data-driven decision making.
• Pivot tables for advanced data analysis, grouping, and summarization, implemented as a flexible WordPress pivot table plugin without the need to export data.
• Business intelligence visualizations rendered securely into WordPress pages and posts, allowing users to interact with live, database-driven data in real time through a complete WordPress business intelligence plugin experience.

Video Tutorials

📺 Overview Video

🎓 Step-by-Step Tutorial

📚 More video tutorials and screencasts

Why use SRM Embed for WordPress reporting?

SRM is more than just a WordPress report builder. While it enables you to create professional reports and link them together into report chains for deeper insights, it also offers much more:

• A powerful WordPress chart builder plugin that creates professional charts from multiple supported chart types, all powered directly by your database.
• A complete WordPress dashboard builder plugin that lets you create unlimited, interactive dashboards within your website.
• An advanced WordPress data analysis plugin featuring analytical tools such as KPIs, historical comparisons, and pivot tables.

All of this is delivered in one easy-to-use plugin, eliminating the need for multiple tools.

Fully Interactive Inside WordPress

Embedded SRM resources maintain all features:

• Drill-down & linking
• Filtering
• Paging & sorting

Smart Report Maker (SRM) is a professional PHP-based reporting platform that transforms raw MySQL and MariaDB data into meaningful insights.
When combined with SRM Embed, it acts as a secure integration layer that turns WordPress into a true reporting and analytics environment.
Learn more about Smart Report Maker
View plugin details and documentation

How it works

1. Build reports, dashboards, charts, or pivot tables from your MySQL or MariaDB databases using Smart Report Maker (SRM).
   If you do not have SRM yet, you can test the plugin using the official
   Smart Report Maker online demo.
2. In SRM (your own installation or the demo), go to
   Embed Manager → SRM WP Plugin.
   This single page contains everything related to the WordPress plugin, including access keys, resource URLs, and embed configurations.

3. Copy the required information from this page and create the shortcode, then insert it inside any WordPress page or post to display the embedded content.

4. All embedded resources remain fully interactive inside WordPress, including filtering, paging, sorting, and drill-down.

Features

• Embed SRM reports, dashboards, pivot tables, KPIs, and charts
• WordPress report builder integration for MySQL databases
• Secure public and private embeds
• Token-based access control for protected data
• Encrypted storage using WordPress salts
• Gutenberg & Classic editor support
• Unlimited shortcodes for different dashboards and reports
• Zero coding required

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later license.
Smart Report Maker is a separate commercial product and not bundled with this plugin.