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.

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1. @kenshino
   Pressing On 4.7
   WordPress Changes and the REST API
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   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.
   

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3. @kenshino
   Jon Ang
   Core Component
   Maintainer,
   Documentation Team Lead
   amongst other things
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   CTO & Co-Founder
   

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4. @kenshino
   WordPress 4.7
   6 December 2016
   

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   Theme Specific CSS
   with Live Preview
   

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   Customiser /
   Theme Specific CSS
   (Future)
   

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   PDF Thumbnails in
   Media Library
   

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   User Based locales
   

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   Selectable
   Post Type Templates
   

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    Video Headers
    

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    Twenty Seventeen
    

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    REST API Endpoints
    

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    API
    Application Programming Interface
    Usually allows connections between 2 different applications
    

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    JSON
    JavaScript Object Notation
    Format for data exchanged based on JavaScript
    

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    REST
    Representation State Transfer
    Stateless, client-server, HTTP communications architecture
    

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    WordPress REST API
    Fully integrated in WP 4.7
    Connector between WordPress and other software applications –
    most of which likely uses REST
    

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    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.
    

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    So what can you do with the REST API?
    

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    Power Multiple Frontends
    Bots
    Android
    Apps
    IOS
    Apps
    IoT
    Devices
    Smart
    Watches
    Desktop
    Applications
    Web
    Applications
    

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    Data Exchange
    Only
    Accountant
    By all
    Staff
    Project
    Specific
    Rest API
    HRM System Accounts
    Project Management
    

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    NomadBase
    A real life example
    

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    Gets Data
    Aggregator
    

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    What does the REST API mean
    for the developer?
    

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    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
    

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    What about my
    WordPress business?
    

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    Blogging
    Platform
    Content
    Management
    System
    Application
    Framework
    70% CMS
    marketshare
    26% of all websites
    Starting with
    REST API
    

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    https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/
    

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30. @kenshino
    Jon Ang
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    Thank you
    Slack, WordPress, Twitter, Github - @kenshino
    

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