Wayne McWilliams, a graphic designer and WordPress front-end developer, emphasizes the importance of staying updated with technology to not fall behind. The document discusses WordPress's growth and the significance of APIs, particularly the WP-API, which facilitates interactions between multiple WordPress instances. The author also highlights examples of WP-API extensibility and provides guidelines on how to access information through the WP-API.

1. W O R D P R E S S
I S A D VA N C I N G R A P I D LY
A P R E S E N TA T I O N B Y WA Y N E M C W I L L I A M S

2. M Y N A M E I S
WAY N E M C W I L L I A M S
• Graphic Designer
• WordPress Front-end developer
• A member of the San Antonio
WordPress Meetup Group
• WordCamp San Antonio 2015
organizer
• Overall WordPress enthusiast

3. – WAY N E M C W I L L I A M S
“The Internet and how we interact with it changes EVERYDAY.
We as individuals have to find a way to keep up with it by
constantly staying on top of new technologies and adapting so
that we aren’t left behind.”

4. – WAY N E M C W I L L I A M S
“Investing is risky but when it is done properly and with insight
you can really make it big. You have to watch the trends
and most of the time new technology is going to be a safe bet
for revenue potential.”
”

5. W O R D C A M P S A N F R A N C I S C O 2 0 1 4

7. F I N D O U T A L L A B O U T T H E W P - A P I
• Official WP-API site and documentation — http://wp-api.org/
• WP Tavern article on Ryan McCue — http://wptavern.com/ryan-mccue-on-
creating-the-json-rest-api-for-wordpress
• WordCamp Presentation by Rachel Baker — http://wordpress.tv/
2014/07/06/rachel-baker-put-your-content-to-rest-with-wp-api/
• WP Engine article on Torque — http://torquemag.io/introduction-
wordpress-new-universal-connector-json-rest-api/

8. W O R D P R E S S S TAT S
• As of August 2013, more than 22% of the top 10 million websites are on
WordPress
• It is currently the most popular blogging system on the web with more than
60 million websites.
• On average, 16 billion pages are viewed by more than 409 million people
each month

9. W H AT I S A N A P I ?
• API stands for Application Programming Interface
and is a set of entry points that allow you to interact
with a platform.

10. A N A P I R E M I N D S M E O F
A N H D M I P O R T B U T F O R
Y O U R W E B S I T E

11. Y O U ’ V E P R O B A B LY H E A R D O F
T H E S E S G U Y S
WHAT ARE A FEW POPULAR APIs?

12. T H E Y J U S T D E C I D E D T O S T O P C O U N T I N G
A F T E R 2 0 1 1 …
T H E G R O W T H O F T H E A P I

14. T W I T T E R A P I I N A C T I O N
PLUMETWEET CASTERFALCON PRO

15. T W I T T E R A P P V S FA L C O N P R O

16. T W I T T E R A P P V S FA L C O N P R O

17. M O R E R O B U S T P L AT F O R M S
F I R S T B E N E F I T

18. B O C O U P B U I LT W I T H N O D E . J S
A R E A L L I F E E X A M P L E

20. L E T ’ S TA L K A B O U T
J S O N B E H I N D H I S B A C K
• JSON is a data format based on
Javascript’s representation of objects,
but it’s widely used because it can be
easily represented in almost every
programming language.

21. E X T E N S I B I L I T Y
S E C O N D B E N E F I T

22. E X A M P L E S O F W P - A P I E X T E N S I B I L I T Y
• Many people who run WordPress run multiple instances of it. The WP-API
would allow these instances to talk to each other, list each other’s content,
or even react to events that happen on the other.
• Imagine you have a Multisite install, and each site is a store that sells items.
You may want to display all of the sale items from each site that are tagged
“Summer Sale”. The WP-API would mash-up this data and make it easy to
implement.

23. E X A M P L E S O F W P - A P I E X T E N S I B I L I T Y
• You could have a plugin built from the content on your site that could then
be downloaded and installed on another site and display a dynamic feed
of your posts with your featured image, an excerpt, and a link to read more.
• We even have popular plugins starting to be extended as APIs. One such
plugin is BuddyPress which is a plugin that helps when building chat
forums and such.

24. A C C E S S I N G T H E I N F O
T H R O U G H W P - A P I
• REQUEST INFO —— example.com/api/team-members
• REQUEST SINGLE —— example.com/api/team-member/4/
• CREATE INFO —— example.com/api/team-members
• EDIT SINGLE —— example.com/api/team-member/4/
• DELETE SINGLE —— example.com/api/team-member/4/
GET
GET
POST
PUT
DELETE

25. T H E W P D A S H B O A R D L O O K S L I K E T H I S …
F O R N O W

26. S O Y O U R W P D A S H B O A R D C O U L D L O O K L I K E

27. O R L I K E

28. E V E N L I K E

29. G O F O R T H A N D W P - A P I

30. Thank You.

31. C O N N E C T W I T H M E
• http://wordpressdev.solutions
• Twitter @WPDevSolutions
• LinkedIn — www.linkedin.com/in/wordpresswayne