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Jon Ang
November 23, 2016
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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
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@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