Learning WordPress REST API

Using REST API in real-world applications

REST API has become the talk of the town in the WordPress community only fairly recently. However, it has been around for quite a long while, and RESTful services are, in fact, as old as the Internet itself.

We are aware that the Internet is made up of different computers and servers, speaking different languages and running different services and processes. As such, a common protocol has been evolved to enable such different services and processes to communicate with each other. Such protocols can be described as a set of given standards that allow for Internet communication in a given manner.

Now, REST API, in itself, sits on top of such protocols, and enables us to facilitate communication between different ...