Along with many user facing features, WordPress 4.7 brought the REST API content endpoints into Core. This developer-focused change is hugely exciting, as it makes building applications on top of WordPress much easier. In this talk, I\u2019ll discuss what the REST API is, how it can be useful, and walk through examples that leverage this powerful new functionality.<\/p>\n
Prerequisites: Along with many user facing features, WordPress 4.7 brought the REST API content endpoints into Core. This developer-focused change is hugely exciting, as it makes building applications on top of WordPress much easier. In this talk, I\u2019ll discuss what the REST API is, how it can be useful, and walk through examples that leverage this … Continue reading “Building apps with the WordPress REST API”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7603189,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1495886400,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[600],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[118835,174742],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-645","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-code-creators","wcb_track-room-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MFMQ-ap","session_date_time":{"date":"May 27, 2017","time":"9:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"600","slug":"gavin-anderegg","name":"Gavin Anderegg","link":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/gavin-anderegg\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/645\/revisions\/770"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/600"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/gavinanderegg"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhile intended for developers, this talk might be also be interesting to anyone who\u2019d like to understand how WordPress could be used as backend for application development. That said, an understanding of web services concepts, as well as some PHP and JavaScript experience is recommended.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"