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WordPress JSON REST API

Rachel Baker
December 15, 2014
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WordPress JSON REST API

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December 15, 2014
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Transcript

  1. JSON REST API
    Current challenges
    and future impact

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  2. Rachel Baker
    @rachelbaker
    Senior Web Engineer,
    Lead Developer,
    JSON REST API
    Project

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  3. Democratize
    Publishing
    Mission:

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  4. USA Today

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  5. http://www.vogue.com/

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  6. Five Thirty Eight

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  8. USA Today

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  9. Five Thirty Eight

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  10. Five Thirty Eight

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  11. http://open.nasa.gov/

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  12. http://open.nasa.gov/

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  13. http://open.nasa.gov/

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  14. http://open.nasa.gov/

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  15. Powers over
    60 million sites
    Stats:
    Forbes, 2011

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  16. 23.3% of
    active sites
    Stats:
    W3 Techs, December 2014

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  17. 4.0 downloaded
    29 million times
    Stats:
    WordPress.org, December 2014

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  18. Multi-functional

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  19. User-friendly

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  20. Powered by a popular
    (and hated) language

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  21. Backward compatible

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  22. Why do we
    need an API?

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  23. We made it to 11.

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  24. Relevance for
    11 more years.

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  25. 69.1% of the web
    doesn’t use a CMS.

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  26. Build new, or iterate
    on existing features.

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  28. Continue the mission.

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  29. Challenges

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  30. 60 million
    distributed APIs.

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  31. Drink.

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  32. 11 years late.

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  33. Respect privacy
    expectations.

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  34. Secure
    authentication.

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  35. Different hosting
    environments.

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  36. Different WordPress
    versions.

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  37. Extensible
    with plugins.

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  38. Cannot deploy
    a bug fix.

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  39. Still has to be useful.

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  40. Quality clients.

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  41. Solutions

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  42. Drink.

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  43. Slow down
    we have a responsibility
    to not screw this up.

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  44. Err on the side of
    authentication.

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  45. Namespaced and
    versioned routes:
    wp/1.0/posts
    pluginname/2.0/events

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  46. OAuth1.0a
    and possibly OAuth2 through
    WordPress.org.

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  47. Educate our
    community
    and seek feedback from all
    communities.

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  48. Official
    client libraries.

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  49. Released version 1.0
    and encourage everyone to start
    using it now.

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  50. Many are already using
    it in production
    New York Times
    Wired
    10up
    Bocoup
    …and more

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  51. Future

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  55. Backbone-based
    WordPress “themes”.

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  56. Customized
    Dashboards.

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  57. Customized
    Dashboards.

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  58. Front-end (inline)
    content editing.

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  59. Customized
    Dashboards.

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  60. WordPress has been the
    gateway drug for
    tens of thousands
    of web developers.

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  61. WordPress will be the
    gateway drug for
    tens of thousands
    of APIs.

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  62. Check it out

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  63. Read the
    Documentation
    wp-api.org

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  64. Install the Plugin
    github.com/WP-API/WP-API

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  65. Get the Schema
    http://example.com/wp-json/

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  66. Build Stuff
    and Give Feedback
    Posts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
    Pages ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
    Custom Post Types ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
    Post Meta ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
    Media ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
    Comments ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
    Taxonomies/Terms ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
    Users ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
    GET POST PUT DELETE

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  67. Thank you
    github.com/WP-API

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  68. STEP ONE

    READ THE DOCUMENTATION

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  69. STEP TWO

    Install & Activate the Plugin

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  70. STEP THREE

    GET the API ScHEMA
    http://example.com/wp-json/

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  71. STEP THREE

    GET the API ScHEMA
    http://example.com/wp-json/

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  72. STEP FOUR

    GET the POSTS COLLECTION
    http://example.com/wp-json/posts/

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  73. http://example.com/wp-json/
    STEP FOUR

    GET the POSTS COLLECTION

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  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

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  75. STEP Twenty-THREE - ??

    Use the JSON REST API
    Use the JSON REST API plugin
    in/for a project.
    Give us feedback.

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