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

7. None

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.

27. None

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

52. None
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54. None

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.