Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Pressing On 4.7 and why the REST API is important
Search
Jon Ang
November 23, 2016
Technology
0
110
Pressing On 4.7 and why the REST API is important
Various key changes for WordPress 4.7 and how the endpoint commit is going to affect us.
Jon Ang
November 23, 2016
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Jon Ang
See All by Jon Ang
WordCamp Kyoto 2017 - WordPress in Asia: Growth & Future
kenshino
0
510
Into the WordPress Team & Community
kenshino
1
140
Security with WordPress
kenshino
0
110
Pressing On 4.5
kenshino
0
84
WordCamp US Experience Sharing & What's next for WordPress in 2016
kenshino
0
98
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
Flutterでキャッチしないエラーはどこに行く
taiju59
0
230
おやつは300円まで!の最適化を模索してみた
techtekt
PRO
0
290
AIエージェント開発用SDKとローカルLLMをLINE Botと組み合わせてみた / LINEを使ったLT大会 #14
you
PRO
0
100
react-callを使ってダイヤログをいろんなとこで再利用しよう!
shinaps
1
230
機械学習を扱うプラットフォーム開発と運用事例
lycorptech_jp
PRO
0
230
フルカイテン株式会社 エンジニア向け採用資料
fullkaiten
0
8.7k
エラーとアクセシビリティ
schktjm
1
1.2k
Webブラウザ向け動画配信プレイヤーの 大規模リプレイスから得た知見と学び
yud0uhu
0
230
Rustから学ぶ 非同期処理の仕組み
skanehira
1
130
ZOZOマッチのアーキテクチャと技術構成
zozotech
PRO
3
1.5k
2025年になってもまだMySQLが好き
yoku0825
8
4.6k
今!ソフトウェアエンジニアがハードウェアに手を出すには
mackee
11
4.6k
Featured
See All Featured
Exploring the Power of Turbo Streams & Action Cable | RailsConf2023
kevinliebholz
34
6k
The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes
chrisshort
48
50k
The Art of Delivering Value - GDevCon NA Keynote
reverentgeek
15
1.6k
Raft: Consensus for Rubyists
vanstee
140
7.1k
Intergalactic Javascript Robots from Outer Space
tanoku
272
27k
Refactoring Trust on Your Teams (GOTO; Chicago 2020)
rmw
34
3.1k
The Invisible Side of Design
smashingmag
301
51k
Code Review Best Practice
trishagee
70
19k
Helping Users Find Their Own Way: Creating Modern Search Experiences
danielanewman
29
2.9k
The Straight Up "How To Draw Better" Workshop
denniskardys
236
140k
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
aarron
273
40k
How to Ace a Technical Interview
jacobian
279
23k
Transcript
@kenshino Pressing On 4.7 WordPress Changes and the REST API
1
@kenshino Wingz Communications - an ethical Singapore-based visual communications agency,
specialising in digital strategies, web design, print design, identity & branding, IT solutions and everything in between.
@kenshino Jon Ang Core Component Maintainer, Documentation Team Lead amongst
other things 3 CTO & Co-Founder
@kenshino WordPress 4.7 6 December 2016
@kenshino 5 Theme Specific CSS with Live Preview
@kenshino 6 Customiser / Theme Specific CSS (Future)
@kenshino 7 PDF Thumbnails in Media Library
@kenshino 8 User Based locales
@kenshino 9 Selectable Post Type Templates
@kenshino 10 Video Headers
@kenshino Twenty Seventeen
@kenshino REST API Endpoints
@kenshino 13 API Application Programming Interface Usually allows connections between
2 different applications
@kenshino 14 JSON JavaScript Object Notation Format for data exchanged
based on JavaScript
@kenshino 15 REST Representation State Transfer Stateless, client-server, HTTP communications
architecture
@kenshino 16 WordPress REST API Fully integrated in WP 4.7
Connector between WordPress and other software applications – most of which likely uses REST
@kenshino 17 Universal Connector The WordPress REST API is revolutionary
because it enables WP to communicate with other web properties no matter what programming language they’re written in.
@kenshino So what can you do with the REST API?
@kenshino Power Multiple Frontends Bots Android Apps IOS Apps IoT
Devices Smart Watches Desktop Applications Web Applications
@kenshino Data Exchange Only Accountant By all Staff Project Specific
Rest API HRM System Accounts Project Management
@kenshino NomadBase A real life example
@kenshino
@kenshino
@kenshino 24 Gets Data Aggregator
@kenshino 25 What does the REST API mean for the
developer?
@kenshino 1. JavaScript is going to be as important, if
not more important than PHP 2. Web development will become more modularised 3. Content Integration will be key and become much easier 4. Business Intelligence suddenly seems that much more related with WordPress 5. We can finally deprecate XMLRPC
@kenshino 27 What about my WordPress business?
@kenshino Blogging Platform Content Management System Application Framework 70% CMS
marketshare 26% of all websites Starting with REST API
@kenshino https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/
@kenshino Jon Ang 30 Thank you Slack, WordPress, Twitter, Github
- @kenshino