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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

JavaScript and WordPress


Ever since the rise of REST API, JavaScript has risen in popularity among WordPress users and the WordPress developer circles. In this context, developers have started to enhance their JavaScript skills so they can be ready whenever the REST API strikes, and in the words of Mullenweg, a more JavaScript-oriented WordPress will rise.

JavaScript, being a front-end development language, runs on the client side (the user's device) and can be used for different things such as creating visual interactions on the site (through its jQuery library). In simple words, a library is just a code repository that can be used to enhance the functionality of the fundamental language. Libraries rely on shortcuts and functions to build upon the coding language. This is similar to a framework that also works like a sort of an extension of the initial foundation, yet it wouldn't work like an independent library in an isolated system, it would more be paired with these libraries. Short-codes...