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Jack Lenox
November 19, 2016
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An introduction to the WordPress REST API
Presented at WordCamp Athens 2016.
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November 19, 2016
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Transcript
An introduc on to the WordPress REST API Jack Lenox
(@jacklenox) WordCamp Athens 2016
I Greece!
1. The case for a WordPress REST API
What is a REST API?
It stands for REpresenta onal State Transfer Applica on Programming
Interface
Centred around verbs GET POST UPDATE PUT DELETE etc. Different
ways to interact with your data
Usually responds in XML or JSON format XML (Extensible Markup
Language) HTML RSS JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
Why does WordPress need one?
None
MoMA in New York (c. 2009) Their developers wanted to
use: WordPress as the CMS Ruby to build the front-end
Why? I don't know... but they did
None
WordPress.com API Released in 2012 Available to self-hosted sites via
Jetpack Powerful and road-tested Not extensible (unless you work at Automa c!)
None
REST API use cases Non-PHP implementations Mobile devices But most
recently...
JavaScript OMGBBQ!
None
Internet of things
So, what is the WordPress REST API?
None
None
Merge meline WordPress 4.4 (8 December 2015) Infrastructure merged No
endpoints WordPress 4.7 (due 6 December 2016) Endpoints merged!
2. How the WordPress REST API works (aka, what the
heck is an endpoint?)
End‐what? REST APIs interprets a URL, and return a response
Not wildly different to RSS Sample request to fetch some posts: wc-athens.dev/wp-json/wp/v2/posts
[ { "id": 1, "date": "2016-11-18T14:08:53", "date_gmt": "2016-11-18T14:08:53", "modified": "2016-11-18T14:08:53",
"modified_gmt": "2016-11-18T14:08:53", "slug": "hello-world", "type": "post", "link": "http://wp-rest-api-demo.dev/2016/11/18/hello-wor "title": { "rendered": "Hello world!" }, "content": { "rendered": "<p>Welcome to WordPress. This is your fi "protected": false } } ]
More endpoints... Single post: wc-athens.dev/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1 All pages: wc-athens.dev/wp-json/wp/v2/pages All users:
wc-athens.dev/wp-json/wp/v2/users All categories: wc-athens.dev/wp-json/wp/v2/categories
Moar verbs! By default, our calls to the REST API
are GET requests. But we can do a lot more: POST PUT UPDATE DELETE
Authen ca on!
A few ways to authen cate Basic Authen ca on
Quick and dirty Cookie Authen ca on Good, especially for themes and plugins OAuth 1.0 A bit complicated, but versatile OAuth 2 Less complicated than OAuth 1, but requires HTTPS
Brokered Authen ca on The broker apps.wp-api.org Otherwise, it's OAuth
1.0
Modifying endpoints
3. Uses for the WordPress REST API
Custom wp‐admin interfaces Calypso developer.wordpress.com/calypso/ Happytables www.happytables.com
Mobile applica ons WordPress apps for iOS and Android apps.wordpress.com/mobile/
Vienna github.com/joehoyle/vienna
Themes Picard github.com/automattic/picard/ Anadama github.com/ryelle/anadama-react/ Foxhound github.com/ryelle/foxhound/
Plugins WooCommerce github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce EDD github.com/easydigitaldownloads/Easy-Digital- Downloads Syndication?
Enterprise Quartz qz.com Facebook facebookbrand.com Google IO (not WordPress, but...)
events.google.com/io2016/
Very exci ng mes ahead!
Further reading, and any ques ons? The WordPress REST API
docs v2.wp-api.org WordPress TV wordpress.tv (search "REST API") javascriptforwp.com
Ευχαριστώ πολύ! @jacklenox We're hiring! automa c.com/work‐with‐us/