I had the same use case than you — calling WP-API from React — and ran into the same issue. Unfortunately WP-API does not support filtering by parent categories. In order to support it, you could extend the API’s functionality, adding a new filter that will run a tax_query behind the scenes, similar to Faye’s … Read more
Thanks for the clarification in the comments. The confusion is between the WordPress.com hosted API and the WordPress.org REST API project, which are different. The WordPress.com API was developed by Automattic and is only available for websites hosted on the WordPress.com platform. There’s some overlap in functionality, but that’s not the documentation you’re looking for … Read more
The content that you are referring to is coming from the Elegant Themes Page Builder plugin on that site. The page builder uses WordPress Shortcodes to render the content on the WordPress site. However, when you use the REST API, the content is pulled from the WordPress database and the shortcodes are not processed/rendered first. … Read more
It’s because of how you’ve defined the accepted methods: ‘methods’ => ‘\WP_REST_Server::CREATABLE ‘, You shouldn’t have quotes around it. WP_REST_Server::CREATABLE is a string that equals ‘POST’, but by putting quotes around it you’re literally setting the method as ‘\WP_REST_Server::CREATABLE’, which is not a valid HTTP method. You can see this in the response to the … Read more
According to http://v2.wp-api.org/reference/posts/ you have categories_exclude available as a param to pass to the API. This should work: http://localhost/wp-json/wp/v2/events/?categories=23&categories_exclude=42&per_page=1 …to get the posts from category 23, but exclude those that also have 42 assigned as category.
According to ticket #38373 the following endpoints will be supported in version 4.7. Let me quote Rachel Baker: REST API endpoints for your WordPress content. These endpoints provide machine-readable external access to your WordPress site with a clear, standards-driven interface, allowing new and innovative apps for interacting with your site. These endpoints support all of … Read more
Could this be about https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/39432 Symptoms look very similar and at the time of writing hasn’t been released as 4.7.3. Applying the patch manually fixed the issue on my nginx setup.
As of WordPress 4.7 now we have the following filter to hook to: $args = apply_filters( “rest_{$this->post_type}_query”, $args, $request ); So if you would like to perform a request like: http://yoursite.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?meta_key=your_key&meta_value=your_value&per_page=10 OR http://yoursite.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?meta_query[0][key]=your_key&meta_query[0][value]=your_value&per_page=10 you can do it through the following piece of code (within your functions.php): /** * This function will allow custom parameters within … Read more
Authorization header is usually stripped by Apache. You can fix it with .htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*) RewriteRule .* – [e=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]
Here’s a REST API recipe for latest post per site on a multi-site, for relatively few sites: Use get_sites(), loop over sites and switch to each site, query latest post on each site, collect data, order data by utime, serve data Example REST Routes https://example.com/wp-json/wpse/v1/latest-post-per-site https://example.com/wp-json/wpse/v1/latest-post-per-site?number=10 https://example.com/wp-json/wpse/v1/latest-post-per-site?debug Example Plugin Here’s a demo plugin implementing the … Read more