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Learning WordPress REST API

By : Sufyan bin Uzayr, Mathew Rooney
Book Image

Learning WordPress REST API

By: Sufyan bin Uzayr, Mathew Rooney

Overview of this book

The 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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning WordPress REST API
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Acknowledgments

There are several people who deserve to be this page, because this book would not have come into existence without their support.

Some names deserve a special mention, and I am genuinely indebted to:

Mathew Rooney, for the help he offered by co-authoring sections of this book. A good part of the code in different segments and chapters of this book was handled by him. Reshma Raman, for ensuring that the book stays on track, and the outline and chapter division is in the best possible shape.

Prashanth G, for editing the book, and making sure that the content is in order, and also for formatting the manuscript to make it adhere to the Packt style guide.

Shivani Mistry, for the technical edits, and for taking care of the book during the production stage.

Joe Perkins, and all the great folks at Tap Managed WordPress hosting, for offering me a free WordPress setup with no restrictions, wherein I could implement and debug the code.

Stelian Subotin, for helping me remain calm by keeping track of the theoretical aspects of the book.

Ahmad Awais, for reviewing the manuscript, and for providing his helpful insight and critical assessment.

And of course, the core contributors of WordPress, the team behind WP REST API, as well as the millions within the WordPress community -- this book would not have existed had WordPress not been there, and WordPress itself would not be so popular if it were not for the amazing community.

-- Sufyan bin Uzayr