WordPress: REST API
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
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.
Syllabus
Introduction
- RESTful WordPress through an API
- Prerequisites for this course
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Next steps
Taught by
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
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