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Learning WordPress REST API

Learning WordPress REST API

By : Sufyan bin Uzayr , Mathew Rooney
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Learning WordPress REST API

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Overview of this book

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. The book begins by covering the basics of the REST API and how it can be used along with WordPress. Learn how the REST API interacts with WordPress, allowing you to copy posts and modify post metadata. Move on to get an understanding of taxonomies and user roles are in WordPress and how to use them with the WordPress REST API. Next, find out how to edit and process forms with AJAX and how to create custom routes and functions. You will create a fully-functional single page web app using a WordPress site and the REST API. Lastly, you will see how to deal with the REST API in future versions and will use it to interact it with third-party services. By the end of the book, you will be able to work with the WordPress REST API to build web applications.
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Getting Started with REST API
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1. Getting Started with REST API
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Introducing REST API
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Using REST API in real-world applications
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Key considerations when working with REST
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Getting started with REST implementation
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Using REST in different programming languages
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REST API in WordPress
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Summary
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2. Interacting with REST API in WordPress
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2. Interacting with REST API in WordPress
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Getting started
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Issuing requests via Postman
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HTTP API in WordPress
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Fetching GET post output in JSON objects
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Interacting REST API via PHP
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Issuing POST requests
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Summary
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3. Working with Taxonomies and Users with REST API
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3. Working with Taxonomies and Users with REST API
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Working with taxonomies in WordPress using REST API
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Implementing REST API and JavaScript with taxonomies
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Working with users in WordPress using REST API
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4. Working with Forms Using REST API
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4. Working with Forms Using REST API
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Overview
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Fundamentals
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Setting up the plugin
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Summary
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5. Custom Routes in WordPress REST API
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5. Custom Routes in WordPress REST API
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Overview
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Adding custom routes to WordPress REST API
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Setting up the custom route
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Setting up the custom endpoints
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Processing requests (and responses)
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Summary
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6. Creating a Simple Web App using WordPress REST API
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6. Creating a Simple Web App using WordPress REST API
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Overview
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Setting up your WordPress site
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Steps to disable the default routes
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More about WP REST API
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The REST architecture
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Going further
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WP REST API – setting up and using basic authentication
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JavaScript authenticated requests
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WP HTTP API for authenticated requests
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WP REST API - setting up and using advanced authentication
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Assessing the availability of the OAuth API
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WP REST API - retrieving data
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WP REST API: creating and editing posts
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WP REST API: internals and customization
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7. Mastering REST API for Your Projects
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7. Mastering REST API for Your Projects
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Backward compatibility
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A universal API
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Architectural structure
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REST architectural constraints
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Ever-growing REST API
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REST API as a platform
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REST API in later versions of WordPress
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REST API and WordPress plugin development
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REST API-based authentication
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REST API and security
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REST API being used in WordPress plugins
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Disabling REST API
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8. WordPress REST API in Practice
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8. WordPress REST API in Practice
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Key differences between v1 and v2 of the plugin
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Internal changes
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External changes
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Future changes
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Functions of APIs
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The REST API in theory
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A guide to HTTP and REST
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The WordPress REST API
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The JSON REST API
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Developers of WP REST API
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REST API revenue sources
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Competing architectures on the Web
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JavaScript and WordPress
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AJAX in WordPress
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Things to consider when using REST API
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Current status of REST API
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Progressive enhancement of WP REST API
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WordPress Calypso and the REST API
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Securing a REST API
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WordPress API and regular users
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Building your own API
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Drawbacks of a custom API
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Custom API tokens
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9. Summing It Up
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9. Summing It Up
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Comparison of REST API with XML-RPC
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XML-RPC usage in WordPress
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REST API token-based authentication
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Making sure your apps and sites are backward-compatible
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The future of REST API
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Limitations of REST API
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Limitations of REST API

REST, as a system in itself, is very predictable regarding endpoints and the content of the requests, being just an HTTP request. It is supposed that end-users can easily guess how to fulfill their aim as long as the URL structure of the site is familiar to them, which can be interpreted as a breach within the security system. This is considered one of the first drawbacks/limitations of RESTful APIs, but we will get to this in a minute.

Regarding performance, it is considered that SOAP is more advanced in this regard, making good use of event-based parsing, which adds to the scalability of SOAP stacks that use normal HTTP processing along the XML parsing, while REST uses the HTTP processing method alone.

Within the industry, there is a prolonged debate that denounces the security of REST related to other methods like SOAP, which is why some developers or clients choose to avoid REST. More technically-savvy developers or users would prefer REST, for the sole reason...

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