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Rachel Baker
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Transcript
JSON REST API Current challenges and future impact
Rachel Baker @rachelbaker Senior Web Engineer, Lead Developer, JSON REST
API Project
Democratize Publishing Mission:
USA Today
http://www.vogue.com/
Five Thirty Eight
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USA Today
Five Thirty Eight
Five Thirty Eight
http://open.nasa.gov/
http://open.nasa.gov/
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http://open.nasa.gov/
Powers over 60 million sites Stats: Forbes, 2011
23.3% of active sites Stats: W3 Techs, December 2014
4.0 downloaded 29 million times Stats: WordPress.org, December 2014
Multi-functional
User-friendly
Powered by a popular (and hated) language
Backward compatible
Why do we need an API?
We made it to 11.
Relevance for 11 more years.
69.1% of the web doesn’t use a CMS.
Build new, or iterate on existing features.
None
Continue the mission.
Challenges
60 million distributed APIs.
Drink.
11 years late.
Respect privacy expectations.
Secure authentication.
Different hosting environments.
Different WordPress versions.
Extensible with plugins.
Cannot deploy a bug fix.
Still has to be useful.
Quality clients.
Solutions
Drink.
Slow down we have a responsibility to not screw this
up.
Err on the side of authentication.
Namespaced and versioned routes: wp/1.0/posts pluginname/2.0/events
OAuth1.0a and possibly OAuth2 through WordPress.org.
Educate our community and seek feedback from all communities.
Official client libraries.
Released version 1.0 and encourage everyone to start using it
now.
Many are already using it in production New York Times
Wired 10up Bocoup …and more
Future
None
None
None
Backbone-based WordPress “themes”.
Customized Dashboards.
Customized Dashboards.
Front-end (inline) content editing.
Customized Dashboards.
WordPress has been the gateway drug for tens of thousands
of web developers.
WordPress will be the gateway drug for tens of thousands
of APIs.
Check it out
Read the Documentation wp-api.org
Install the Plugin github.com/WP-API/WP-API
Get the Schema http://example.com/wp-json/
Build Stuff and Give Feedback Posts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Pages ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Custom Post Types ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Post Meta ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Media ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Comments ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Taxonomies/Terms ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Users ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ GET POST PUT DELETE
Thank you github.com/WP-API
STEP ONE READ THE DOCUMENTATION
STEP TWO Install & Activate the Plugin
STEP THREE GET the API ScHEMA http://example.com/wp-json/
STEP THREE GET the API ScHEMA http://example.com/wp-json/
STEP FOUR GET the POSTS COLLECTION http://example.com/wp-json/posts/
http://example.com/wp-json/ STEP FOUR GET the POSTS COLLECTION
STEPs FIVE - Twenty-Two EXPLORE ALL THE POSSIBILITES Posts ✔
✔ ✔ ✔ Pages ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Custom Post Types ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Post Meta ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Media ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Comments ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Taxonomies/Terms ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Users ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ GET POST PUT DELETE
STEP Twenty-THREE - ?? Use the JSON REST API Use
the JSON REST API plugin in/for a project. Give us feedback.