REST API as a platform
The REST API at its 1.2.3 version adds some extensibility to the already flexible and robust CMS that WordPress is considered to be. It provides the benefit of turning WordPress into an entirely innovative application framework that will further adapt to custom data types while still maintaining a natural note and way of maintaining. The REST API is meant to not interfere with new data types and thus will not break them when any protocol is changed. An API such as REST will let us extend the possibilities that we already have regarding usage of WordPress and progress in its development.
REST, which is defined as the Representational State Transfer, uses the HTTP connection to offer some advantages to WordPress, such as the ...
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