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Is there a way to get protected meta fields through any of the available built-in WordPress APIs? (xmlrpc, wp-json)

To me, the simplest solution would be creating additional field in JSON response and populating it with selected post meta: function create_api_posts_meta_field() { // “tribe_venue” is your post type name, // “protected-fields” is a name for new JSON field register_rest_field( ‘tribe_venue’, ‘protected-fields’, [ ‘get_callback’ => ‘get_post_meta_for_api’, ‘schema’ => null, ] ); } add_action( ‘rest_api_init’, ‘create_api_posts_meta_field’ … Read more

WP REST API only returning partial list of users

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

Implementing Isomorphic JavaScript (React JS) in WordPress?

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

How do I cache (core) API requests?

There is a cache plugin for WP Rest API with the name… WP Rest API Cache: I’ve used it for small projects and helped me a lot.

WP-API v2 Custom Endpoint Response Formatting

You can call the REST API methods to prepare your output in the same way that the plugin does by default, this will also allow any plugins to tie into the output as you have used the ACF plugin as seen in your example output. The WP_REST_Posts_Controller class has the following in its get posts … Read more

Uploading media with the REST API

This is not possible via the API; you need to fetch the image yourself, and send the data to the API yourself. Blockquote – This quotes Ryan on the GitHub–issue mentioned in @Dan (deleted) answer. How to side load images Note that the media_sideload_image() return value can be an instance of \WP_Error as well. You … Read more

Query WP REST API v2 by multiple meta keys

Adding a custom endpoint is pretty straightforward. I also modified the url to look more like http://example.com/wp-json/namespace/v2/posts?filter[meta_value][month]=12&filter[meta_value][year]=2015 function wp_json_namespace_v2__init() { // create json-api endpoint add_action(‘rest_api_init’, function () { // http://example.com/wp-json/namespace/v2/posts?filter[meta_value][month]=12&filter[meta_value][year]=2015 register_rest_route(‘namespace/v2’, ‘/posts’, array ( ‘methods’ => ‘GET’, ‘callback’ => ‘wp_json_namespace_v2__posts’, ‘permission_callback’ => function (WP_REST_Request $request) { return true; } )); }); // handle the request … Read more

Get post count in wp rest API v2 and get all categories

The WP Rest API sends the total count(found_posts) property from WP_Query. in a header called X-WP-Total. FOR POSTS: you can make a call to posts endpoint of the REST API http://demo.wp-api.org/wp-json/wp/v2/posts The value for posts count is returned in the header as X-WP-Total. Below is a sample response from the hosted demo Access-Control-Allow-Headers:Authorization, Content-Type Access-Control-Expose-Headers:X-WP-Total, … Read more

How do I access the body of a WP API request in a custom route?

You can use $request->get_json_params() which will return an array of key => values. With these conditions(possibly a few more): The client sending the request has Content-Type: application/json in the header There is a raw body like {“option”:”siteColor”,”value”:”ff0000″}. https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/get_json_params/

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