WordPress: REST API

Use the WordPress REST API to interact remotely with your WordPress site. Learn how to use the API inside and outside of WordPress, modify responses, and more.

Introduction

• RESTful WordPress through an API
• Prerequisites for this course

1. Exploring the WordPress REST API

• What is the WordPress REST API?
• What are RESTful APIs and JSON?
• Routes and endpoints
• Communicating with the REST API
• Explore the REST API response
• Useful routes: A quick reference
• Expanding the response with embeds
• Challenge: Find posts in a category
• Solution: Find posts in a category

2. Modify the REST API Response

• Notes on modifying a REST API response
• Add custom post types and taxonomies
• Add custom fields to the response
• Challenge: Add fields to the response
• Solution: Add fields to the response

3. Authentication and Authorization

• Authentication and authorization
• Basic authentication (development only)
• Cookie authentication
• JWT: JSON Web Token authentication
• Add JWT support with a plugin
• Test JWT authentication via REST client

4. Practical Examples

• Four practical examples
• Read only: Load next post using REST API
• Cookie authentication: Front-end editing
• Basic standalone app
• JWT authentication: Third-party editing
• Challenge: Add dynamic related posts navigation
• Solution: Add dynamic related posts navigation

Conclusion

• Next steps