WordPress JSON REST API

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1. JSON REST API Current challenges and future impact
2. Rachel Baker @rachelbaker Senior Web Engineer, Lead Developer, JSON REST API Project
3. Democratize Publishing Mission:
4. USA Today
5. http://www.vogue.com/
6. Five Thirty Eight
8. USA Today
9. Five Thirty Eight
10. Five Thirty Eight
11. http://open.nasa.gov/
12. http://open.nasa.gov/
13. http://open.nasa.gov/
14. http://open.nasa.gov/
15. Powers over 60 million sites Stats: Forbes, 2011
16. 23.3% of active sites Stats: W3 Techs, December 2014
17. 4.0 downloaded 29 million times Stats: WordPress.org, December 2014
18. Multi-functional
19. User-friendly
20. Powered by a popular (and hated) language
21. Backward compatible
22. Why do we need an API?
23. We made it to 11.
24. Relevance for 11 more years.
25. 69.1% of the web doesn’t use a CMS.
26. Build new, or iterate on existing features.
28. Continue the mission.
29. Challenges
30. 60 million distributed APIs.
31. Drink.
32. 11 years late.
33. Respect privacy expectations.
34. Secure authentication.
35. Different hosting environments.
36. Different WordPress versions.
37. Extensible with plugins.
38. Cannot deploy a bug fix.
39. Still has to be useful.
40. Quality clients.
41. Solutions
42. Drink.
43. Slow down we have a responsibility to not screw this up.
44. Err on the side of authentication.
45. Namespaced and versioned routes: wp/1.0/posts pluginname/2.0/events
46. OAuth1.0a and possibly OAuth2 through WordPress.org.
47. Educate our community and seek feedback from all communities.
48. Official client libraries.
49. Released version 1.0 and encourage everyone to start using it now.
50. Many are already using it in production New York Times Wired 10up Bocoup …and more
51. Future
55. Backbone-based WordPress “themes”.
56. Customized Dashboards.
57. Customized Dashboards.
58. Front-end (inline) content editing.
59. Customized Dashboards.
60. WordPress has been the gateway drug for tens of thousands of web developers.
61. WordPress will be the gateway drug for tens of thousands of APIs.
62. Check it out
63. Read the Documentation wp-api.org
64. Install the Plugin github.com/WP-API/WP-API
65. Get the Schema http://example.com/wp-json/
66. Build Stuff and Give Feedback Posts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Pages ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Custom Post Types ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Post Meta ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Media ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Comments ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Taxonomies/Terms ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Users ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ GET POST PUT DELETE
67. Thank you github.com/WP-API
68. STEP ONE READ THE DOCUMENTATION
69. STEP TWO Install & Activate the Plugin
70. STEP THREE GET the API ScHEMA http://example.com/wp-json/
71. STEP THREE GET the API ScHEMA http://example.com/wp-json/
72. STEP FOUR GET the POSTS COLLECTION http://example.com/wp-json/posts/
73. http://example.com/wp-json/ STEP FOUR GET the POSTS COLLECTION
74. STEPs FIVE - Twenty-Two EXPLORE ALL THE POSSIBILITES Posts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Pages ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Custom Post Types ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Post Meta ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Media ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Comments ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Taxonomies/Terms ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Users ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ GET POST PUT DELETE
75. STEP Twenty-THREE - ?? Use the JSON REST API Use the JSON REST API plugin in/for a project. Give us feedback.