2015
Lynda
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
1:38
English
The revolution will be RESTful! WordPress, the most popular and prevalent content publishing platform on the web, is undergoing a fundamental change. With the introduction of the WP API, a RESTful JSON API, the content management system can finally graduate from its PHP-rooted origins to become a full-fledged application platform.
With the WP API, developers can access the data on a WordPress site—such as users, posts, and categories—programmatically. The result is an expansion of the already limitless field of possibilities where theme and plugin development is concerned.
This course is a first look at the WP API: what it is, how to get it running, how to interact with it, what it can do for us, and what we can do with it. Join Morten Rand-Hendriksen, your guide and WordPress guru, as he walks through the tools and major features (such as routes and endpoints) of the WP API, as well as a short project that shows how this new API will be used in real-world workflows.
Introduction
Welcome
How to use the exercise files
1. What Is the WP-API?
What is the WP-API?
What are RESTful APIs and JSON?
Understanding routes and endpoints
2. Getting Started with the WP-API
Installing the WP-API
Using tools to access the API
3. Exploring the WP-API
Checking the API index
Exploring common routes
A closer look at the API output of a post
4. Building a Plugin Using the WP-API and AJAX
Start at the end: What we are building
Craft the API URL request
Build a basic plugin
Create and enqueue a plugin stylesheet
Create basic HTML and CSS output
Create a function to generate the API URL request
Create and enqueue JavaScripts for AJAX
Pass data to the JavaScript file
Create a basic AJAX function using the WP-API
Create the HTML output for the AJAX function
Register a Post Author Name field to the API response
Display featured images in the response
Create condition for featured images
Add a loader graphic to the AJAX function
Final touches
Next Steps
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