WP REST API

www.vegasgeek.com
John Hawkins

Used a “call center” as an example of using WP REST API to solve custom data problems with WordPress.

• What problem does it solve?
• The WP Rest API provides endpoints for data types taht allow devs to interact with sites remotely
• Get
• Post
• Put
• Delete

How would I solve issues?

• shortcodes, used to hide code in a little bit of text
• hook to init on a certain set of pages

Create a route

• Pretty Permalinks
  • serve up json of all posts
• Post endpoints
  • Such as latest ten posts
  • Anytime someone hits and end point… do something.
  • Allow WP to watch for data to hit a url
  • If it doesn’t recieve what it expects it will ignore it and move on.
• Keep it simple to accomplish your goals with the data
• Create a custom array of whatever you want
• If you build custom features don’t tie it to a theme. Consider using a “core functions plugins
• Chrome extension – JSON formatter – makes it human readable.
• Postman – Testing your API
• Learn More – https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api