Learning WordPress REST API

A practical tutorial to get you up and running with the revolutionary WordPress REST APIAbout This Book Learn how to run the latest WordPress REST API with various platforms Create exciting apps and manage non-WordPress content with them Secure, export, and manage your data through illustrative examplesWho This Book Is ForThis book is for WordPress developers and designers who want to get a complete practical understanding of the WordPress REST API and leverage it to create fully-featured web apps. What You Will Learn Use the WordPress REST API to read, write, and edit posts Create and work with metadata using the WordPress REST API Work with taxonomies using the REST API Add custom routes and build apps using the WordPress REST API Process requests and integrate with external applications and frameworks Make your WordPress projects ready for the RESTful API standardIn DetailThe WordPress REST API is a recent innovation that has the potential to unlock several new opportunities for WordPress developers. It can help you integrate with technologies outside of WordPress, as well as offer great flexibility when developing themes and plugins for WordPress. As such, the REST API can make developers' lives easier. The book begins by covering the basics of the REST API and how it can be used along with WordPress. Learn how the REST API interacts with WordPress, allowing you to copy posts and modify post metadata. Move on to get an understanding of taxonomies and user roles are in WordPress and how to use them with the WordPress REST API. Next, find out how to edit and process forms with AJAX and how to create custom routes and functions. You will create a fully-functional single page web app using a WordPress site and the REST API. Lastly, you will see how to deal with the REST API in future versions and will use it to interact it with third-party services. By the end of the book, you will be able to work with the WordPress REST API to build web applications. Style and ApproachA step by step tutorial to explain the new and exciting world of the WordPress REST API with the real world examples.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with REST API; Introducing REST API; Defining API; Defining REST; Defining JSON; Using REST API in real-world applications; Advantages of REST services; Key considerations when working with REST; Architectural components in REST; Design principles in REST; Getting started with REST implementation; Passing commands in SOAP versus REST; Handling data in REST; Using REST in different programming languages; Ruby; Python; Perl; C#; Java; PHP.

JavaScriptREST API in WordPress; Universality; Remote management; Third-party support; Summary; Chapter 2: Interacting with REST API in WordPress; Getting started; Issuing requests via Postman; HTTP API in WordPress; Fetching GET post output in JSON objects; Issuing queries; Interacting REST API via PHP; Explanation of function; Issuing POST requests; Implementing GET meta fields using REST API in WordPress; Implementing POST meta fields using REST API in WordPress; Summary; Chapter 3: Working with Taxonomies and Users with REST API; Working with taxonomies in WordPress using REST API; Basics.…