This document summarizes a presentation on the new WordPress HTML API. It introduces the speaker and where they are from. It then outlines what will be covered in the presentation, including an overview of the problem the HTML API solves, alternative solutions, how to use the API, and additional resources. Requirements to follow along with the presentation are also listed, including having a local WordPress install and the test custom image plugin.

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

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👋🏽 Welcome!
As you join, let everyone know in the chat where you’re
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
○ Welcome.
○ Please let me know if you can’t see this slide!
○ We are presenting in focus mode, but please feel free to enable your video.
○ You are welcome to ask questions.
○ You are welcome to post questions in the chat, or unmute to ask questions.

5. Announcements
○ If I am going too fast, please let me know!
○ We are recording this session and will be posting it to https://wordpress.tv/ afterwards.
○ https://learn.wordpress.org/ - WordPress learning resources
○ https://developer.wordpress.org/news/ - WordPress developer news

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/