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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

4 (1)
By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress has been the most popular content management system (CMS) for many years and is now powering over 30% of all websites globally. With the demand for WordPress development and skilled developers ever-increasing, now is the best time to learn WordPress inside out. This book starts with simple recipes for configuring WordPress and managing basic platform features. You’ll then move on to explore how to install and customize WordPress plugins, widgets, and themes. The next few chapters cover recipes for content and user-management-related topics such as customizing the content display, working with content types, using the new Gutenberg editor, and customizing editorial workflow for building advanced blogs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use WordPress as an application framework as well as a platform for building e-commerce sites. This WordPress book will also help you optimize your site to maximize visibility on search engines, add interactivity, and build a user community to make the site profitable. Finally, you’ll learn how to maintain a WordPress site smoothly while taking precautions against possible security threats. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and skills required to build and maintain modern WordPress websites with the latest technologies and be able to find quick solutions to common WordPress problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Using the REST API

The REST API is a built-in feature that provides an interface for other applications to interact with WordPress websites without needing to log in to the backend of the site or using the frontend interfaces. The API uses the HTTP protocol and JSON format to communicate data. This is the modern trend in application development where various separate applications or services are integrated together to build an advanced application. Since this is platform and language independent, we can use the REST API to provide site data to external services, platforms such as Android and IOS, and use it to build custom features within the site.

The default API methods allow you to interact with existing database tables and create, update, retrieve, and delete data. We also have the ability to define custom REST API methods and work with custom database tables to provide data...