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theRESTfulfuture of

WordPress

Phil Crumm Director of

Strategic Opportunities, 10up

@pcrumm / @10up

rest apibasics

API (noun) A contract provided by one piece of computer software for another. - Chris Beach, StreetLend

Application A When you ask where you are, I will reply with a zip code.

Application B Where am I?

Application A 90210

restful interfaces are…

uniform

stateless

cacheable

client-server

layered

HTTP

RESTful Interfaces

apis via http resources <-> uris

actions <-> http verbs

component resource POST/person/philGET/person/philPUT/person/phil

DELETE/person/phil

rest apiwordpress+

2008

2010

2014

2016

2016

REST API

state of the api

wordpress 4.4 (dec ’15)

rest api internals merged

anyone can build an api!

soon (formerly WP 4.5)

core endpoints merged

core endpoints posts • revisions • pages • media • post

types • post statuses • comments • taxonomies • categories • tags • users

… + all wp-admin features?

safe to use!

a h e a dlooking

wordpress the best place to create & store

your content

wordpress + api the best place to share & access

your content

createshare

your contentyour way

electron

custom frontends

bespoke backends

novel content applications

flexibility of wordpress +

the open web

questions?

thank you!