If you are using PHP 5.2+ you’re best bet is to just make a PHP array or object and use json_encode(). UPDATED: $cats = get_categories(); $output = array(‘categories’ => array()); foreach ($cats as $cat) { $cat_output = array( ‘cat_id’ => $cat->term_id, ‘cat_name’ => $cat->name, ‘posts’ => array(), ); // should be able to use -1 … Read more
Slow REST API calls on self-hosted WordPress [closed]
I came up with this solution. This function checks in each directory level starting from the directory of the current file for the file wp-config.php. <?php function find_wp_config_path() { $dir = dirname(__FILE__); do { if( file_exists($dir.”/wp-config.php”) ) { return $dir; } } while( $dir = realpath(“$dir/..”) ); return null; } ?> To actually include the … 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
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.
Update: Made a blog post to explain this better 🙂 I was able to do this by WP’s authenticate filter inside a new plugin; most of which is guided by this tutorial by Ben Lobaugh. Major points on the plugin: Make an API call function using cURL (you can get guide codes from Postman upon … Read more
Cross-site Scripting Issues You cannot transfer WP auth cookies between domains. You also don’t want to store plaintext passwords for logging into another WP installation programmatically. So, you’ll have to have users log into WordPress, and then access their login status via an API endpoint from the third-party site. This lets WordPress handle all the … Read more
WordPress expects the $_SERVER variables to be setup as if it were a normal web request. Also, I would suggest loading wp-load.php instead of wp-blog-header.php since you probably don’t need the WP class or the template loader to run. Here is how I normally start any scripts I need to interact with WP from command … Read more
The init action is the wrong place to do it. A better place would be at template_redirect, so that you only affect the front end view of the site and not the admin areas.
You should put the named parameters of the route regex into an optional capturing group: register_rest_route( ‘api’, ‘/animals(?:/(?P<id>\d+))?’, [ ‘methods’ => WP_REST_Server::READABLE, ‘callback’ => ‘get_animals’, ‘args’ => [ ‘id’ ], ] ); The second parameter is simply a regex, thus you can use normal regex logic to make it more complex