The external changes performed are as follows:
The core routes within WordPress have been transferred to the
wp/v2
namespace.
To follow the Hypertext Application Language (HAL) standards, the hypermedia links have been changed from
meta.links
to_links
.Links will be given an embeddable attribute that will indicate whether they can or cannot be embedded within the response.
Defined content types will have a schema attributed to the endpoint in a way that will follow the JSON Schema standard
Comments have also suffered a change in the way that they have been moved to a top-level endpoint in the manner of
/wp/v2/comments
.