Use the HTTP API to send a “ping” on the wp_insert_post action, which is fired whenever a post is created/updated: /** * @param int $post_id The ID of the post. * @param WP_Post $post The post object. * @param bool $update True if the post already exists and is being updated */ function wpse_185340_post_ping( $post_id, … Read more
Option 1: Why create your own WordPress API (mini or not) when you already have one? Option 2: You should try to extend the WordPress REST API in order to register/authenticate. You can use, e.g. https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/json-api-user/ or just grab from it the code you need and modify it.
For my needs, I customized the wp rest posts callback: function get_all_posts( $data, $post, $context ) { return [ ‘id’ => $data->data[‘id’], ‘date’ => $data->data[‘date’], ‘date_gmt’ => $data->data[‘date_gmt’], ‘modified’ => $data->data[‘modified’], ‘title’ => $data->data[‘title’][‘rendered’], ‘content’ => $data->data[‘content’][‘rendered’], ‘excerpt’ => $data->data[‘excerpt’][‘rendered’], ‘category’ => get_the_category_by_ID( $data->data[‘categories’][0] ), ‘link’ => $data->data[‘link’], ]; } add_filter( ‘rest_prepare_post’, ‘get_all_posts’, 10, 3 … Read more
What do you mean by “external users”? If you only want Users, that are logged into your website, to use the API Endpoint, you can filter the “rest_authentication_errors” like described here Add this to your plugin: add_filter( ‘rest_authentication_errors’, function( $result ) { if ( ! empty( $result ) ) { return $result; } if ( … Read more
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get_body_class() relies on $wp_query to do its thing, which is apparently a no-go for the JSON API. I considered creating a global object to hold the body class, and just using that to keep the body_class up to date…but that wouldn’t work without page reloads, and there would be no assurance that the object was … Read more
You’ll want to use cURL to do server to server connections. There are plenty of examples online but here is a good starting point so you can at least know what functions to look into. http://php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php
Maybe not exactly the answer you are looking for, but here it goes…. The rest API as it is implemented in wordpress core is a mockery of how APIs should be designed and the less you use it the better. Obviously it will be just stupid to not use a core API that does exactly … Read more
How to do POST request with WP REST API v2 to custom table?