Learning WordPress REST API

The JSON REST API

The JSON REST API will now make it possible to manipulate and use code to ease up trivial tasks like creating content and working with posts, pages and users with minimal effort. The interface that was created by the core team makes it an easy and undaunting task.

JSON, the JavaScript Object Notation, is a preferred format for creating structures that will then be used by our data, and thus applications will be able to make good use of it. JSON-formatted data can be created from one programming language and then processed from another, thus making communication between systems and languages way easier through a common data format, which JSON is. This opens the room for a proper expansion of how we perceive WordPress now and in ...