it seems the latter only accepts x-www-form-urlencoded That’s not completely true. WordPress admin-ajax.php takes the action from $_REQUEST[‘action’] and $_REQUEST is equal to: array_merge($_POST, $_GET); But what many people don’t realize is that $_GET in PHP is not the data was sent to page using HTTP GET method, in fact, you can use whatever HTTP … Read more
Based on the code provided it looks like you are misunderstanding how wp_localize_script works. The signature of the function looks like this: wp_localize_script( $handle, $name, $data ); Where $handle is the name of a JavaScript file you have registered or enqueued before calling wp_localize_script. Take a look at the example in the codex (I’ve added … Read more
To anyone who might still be hitting this problem, here’s a checklist: Make sure you are authenticated AND your user has the list_users capability. Example: When adding a custom role, I make sure to add the list_users capability. The user should also be logged in (what authenticated means) when making the request. By default, only … Read more
I don’t think using React.js without Node.js (or at least V8 or rhino etc) counts as isomorphic, as isomorphic means that you are building JavaScript to run in the browser AND on the server. Specifically, using WordPress certainly means you aren’t doing isomorphic javascript (its PHP software). What you could do is use WordPress as … Read more
Those are links for the wordpress “self” oEmbed. It provides the URLs needed to enable embeding the content of the wordpress site in other sites and they are resuired for oEmbed Discover You are right that they are for other sites to consume your content, and if you don’t care about it, just remove it. … Read more
I will give you a small answer to your update, doing this with the WP API. The API have the possibilities to use the WP_Query like also in core, but about the get parameters in the url. A URL to pull content from Post Status would look like this: http://example.com/wp-json/posts To pull content with WP_Query … Read more
TL;DR Yes, WordPress can certainly act as a backend for a mobile app. Yes, a page can act as a rest endpoint / interface. No, a theme template is not the right territory for the logic. Write your own plugin. Pointers I find it hard to believe that no one else has done this. I, … Read more
If you need to send a JSON response, then there’s a set of functions for that. In case you need that for an AJAX callback: wp_remote_retrieve_response_message() wp_remote_retrieve_response_code() wp_send_json_success() wp_send_json_error() wp_send_json() Would finally be something like that: $request = wp_remote_get( ‘http://example.com’ ); $response = wp_remote_retrieve_body( $request ); if ( ‘OK’ !== wp_remote_retrieve_response_message( $response ) OR 200 … Read more
wp_send_json() handles all parts of returning content in an AJAX call. First off, it sets the content type of the returned content to application/json with the proper charset. Secondly, it automatically calls wp_die() after sending the JSON result, which is necessary in an AJAX call in WordPress. You could consider using wp_send_json_success() for successful requests … Read more
It did appear that the json wasn’t being cached by wp-super-cache, but we decided to take a different approach. By using the transient api, we were able to do a faux-cache on all json, and drastically reduce the taxing of the database. Then on the ajax side of things, we are caching the html that … Read more