Logged in on your website doesn’t mean the user is authenticated in the REST API request, that’s why you are not getting the correct user or a Id = 0 Please take a look to the REST API authentication methods on the docs: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/using-the-rest-api/authentication/ For developers making manual Ajax requests, the nonce will need to … Read more
You can return a WP_Error object in which you define the status code. Here’s a snippet from the REST API documentation: function my_awesome_func( $data ) { $posts = get_posts( array( ‘author’ => $data[‘id’], ) ); if ( empty( $posts ) ) { return new WP_Error( ‘awesome_no_author’, ‘Invalid author’, array( ‘status’ => 404 ) ); } … Read more
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
At its current state, it is a badly engineered feature that do not have any real advantage for a competent developer. The basic idea, as it stands at the time this answer is written, is to expose WordPress core functionality as JSON REST API. This will enable decoupling of the WordPress “business” logic from the … Read more
Why JWT authentication I’m building a site that uses WordPress as the back-end, and a React+Redux app as the front-end, so I’m pulling all the content in the front-end by making requests to the WordPress API. Some requests (mainly, POST requests) must be authenticated, which is when I came across JWT. What we need To … Read more
It’s a good point by @Milo, the REST_REQUEST constant is defined as true, within rest_api_loaded() if $GLOBALS[‘wp’]->query_vars[‘rest_route’] is non-empty. It’s hooked into parse_request via: add_action( ‘parse_request’, ‘rest_api_loaded’ ); but parse_request fires later than init – See for example the Codex here. There was a suggestion (by Daniel Bachhuber) in ticket #34373 regarding WP_Query::is_rest(), but it … Read more
4.7 has it enabled by default. The easy way to check if it is working is just to visit the example.com/wp-json url, and you should get a list of registered end points there There is no official option to disable it as (at least there was a talk about it not sure if it got … Read more