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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