Get Plugin Information from Multiple Sites Externally

Before anything else: Be really sure that your endpoint to retrieve this information is reasonably secure. (e.g. using SSL and some authentication like a password) Leaking the information which plugins are installed on a site might offer a point of attack for hackers. I am not going to offer you a ready-made solution but outline … Read more

Get the timout value of a saved transient?

So, after one minute of more thinking, there is an easy solution, although i did not try it myself: $transient=”_transient_timeout_” . $_your_transient_name; $transient_timeout = get_option ( $transient ); you should be ready to go with this. Another Way throught the database would be: $transient=”_transient_timeout_” . $_your_transient_name; global $wpdb; $query = ‘SELECT option_value FROM ‘ . … Read more

How to integrate Yelp API

Working with any API is distinctly different and custom, however in a nutshell there are two components two implement and WP APIs that go with them: Request data from API. Since most modern web APIs are REST this is basically making HTTP request. In WordPress network requests are performed with HTTP API. Store data. This … Read more

Displaying Content with WP Rest API

I will assume you want to use PHP to display this data directly using a template, there are alternatives such as using another language or actually creating posts via the API. Simply put you want to take the JSON string and convert it into a PHP object or array using json_decode. http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php. Once the JSON … Read more