WP JSON API and You!The Next Journey in Your Career

What You’ll Be Learning

●What Is JSON

●REST and Its Best Practices

●The WP REST API

●How to Engage Clients With This

API Primer

What is JSON

●JavaScript Object Notation

●Supports Strings, Numbers, Booleans, Arrays, and Objects

●Client side communication between different domain servers through callback(JSONP)

JSON Example

REST

●Representational State Transfer

●Architectural style for scalable web services

●HTTP requests for CRUD operations

●Auth methods like Basic and Oauth

REST Best Practices

●API located at base URL, i.e. http://example.com/api

●Separate actions for GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE

●Maintain a Version History

●Get a SSL certificate

●Keep it simple

Using the WP API!

The Setup

●Download source from WP Plugin Repo, or GitHub for beta version

●Activate the Plugin

●Go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-json/posts and view your recent posts in JSON

●Easy right!

Now Lets Extend It A Bit!

●Change JSON Response Output

●Create custom endpoints

Extending The Response

Extending The Endpoints

Extending The Endpoints

How You Can Sell It

People Already Doing Similar

Resources

●https://github.com/WP-API/WP-API

●https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-rest-api/

●https://poststatus.com/wordpress-json-rest-api/

●http://wp-api.org/resources.html

Questions?

Reaching Out!

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