Category: REST API
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Reviving the WordPress OAuth1 Plugin
The WordPress landscape is ever-evolving, and as technology advances, plugins that once thrived can fall by the wayside. One such plugin, the WordPress OAuth1 plugin, has been in need of attention, having last seen an update in March 2017. In this blog post, I’m excited to announce the release of the latest version, 0.4.3, breathing…
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REST API Performance with Jonny Harris
I am on this month’s Headless WP Podcast. We talk about performance, scaling and the REST API. Really interesting conversion.
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Becoming a maintainer of the REST API in WordPress Core
I am happy to announce that I am now officially a maintainers of the REST API in WordPress Core. I join a list of very well respected names in the WordPress community. The reason I have done this, is that the REST API is important to the future of the WordPress project and the open…
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REST API Blocks plugin update
The REST API blocks plugin, has been available to download via github, since June 2019. You can checkout the original blog post where I discuss the use of this plugin here. But I got a request from a user to add the plugin to the WordPress.org plugin repo. Normally, I don’t submit my plugins to…
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Getting gutenberg block data in the REST API
WordPress core added the block editor in version 5.0.0, changing fundamentally how WordPress stores and displays elements in post (page) content. The block editor, named gutenberg, is written using react and uses the WordPress REST API to interact with data in WordPress. So you maybe forgiven to believe that it would then be easy to…