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New WordPress Developer APIs
The HTML API
Jonathan Bossenger
Learn.WordPress.org

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👋🏽 Welcome!
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joining us from, and feel free to share a little about what
you do with WordPress.
Hello!
○ My name is Jonathan Bossenger
○ From Cape Town, South Africa
○ Developer educator at Automattic
○ Sponsored to work with the Training Team
○ jonathanbossenger.com

3. Learn.WordPress.org
The HTML API
Jonathan Bossenger

4. Announcements
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6. What we will be looking into today
○ The new HTML API
• What is the problem it’s trying to solve
• Alternative solutions
• How to use the HTML API
• Further reading

7. Requirements
○ A local WordPress installation
○ A text editor
○ The test custom image plugin
• https://github.com/jonathanbossenger/wp-learn-custom-
image/releases/download/0.0.2/wp-learn-custom-image.0.0.2.zip

8. Let’s go!

9. Resources
○ https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/09/the-html-api-process-your-tags-not-your-pain/
○ https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_html_tag_processor/
○ https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/07/introducing-the-html-api-in-wordpress-6-2/
○ https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/10/21/updates-to-the-html-api-in-6-4/
○ https://wordpress.tv/2023/08/31/developer-hours-introduction-to-the-html-api/