Learning Wordpress Rest Api [Paperback]

A practical tutorial to get you up and running with the revolutionary WordPress REST API

About This Book

• Learn how to run the latest WordPress REST API with various platforms
• Create exciting apps and manage non-WordPress content with them
• Secure, export, and manage your data through illustrative examples

Who This Book Is For

This book is for WordPress developers and designers who want to get a complete practical understanding of the WordPress REST API and leverage it to create fully-featured web apps.

What You Will Learn

• Use the WordPress REST API to read, write, and edit posts
• Create and work with metadata using the WordPress REST API
• Work with taxonomies using the REST API
• Add custom routes and build apps using the WordPress REST API
• Process requests and integrate with external applications and frameworks
• Make your WordPress projects ready for the RESTful API standard

In Detail

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.

This book will guide you through the use of REST API, and show you what WordPress development in the future will look like with the REST API. The book begins by covering the basics of the REST API and how it can be used along with WordPress.

Later on, you will learn how the REST API interacts with WordPress, allowing you to copy posts and modify post metadata. You will then move on to get an understanding of what are taxonomies and user roles are in WordPress and how to use them with the WordPress REST API. Next, you will find out how to edit and process forms with AJAX and how to create custom routes andló,