The WordPress REST API lets you move data in and out of WordPress – enabling integrations with any other client application or data consumer. We’ll guide you on how to design, create and execute custom endpoints in the REST API to enable complex integrations for multiple resources and clients.
In this workshop, we’ll create a fictitious project – we’ll be outsourcing the development of the app, whilst we focus on creating and providing the data from WordPress. We’ll start by designing the required data models and a communication protocol to transfer from server to client – then we’ll document our requirements to pass on to our outsourced app provider.
Once we receive the app back from our provider – ready to accept data – we’ll build the backend implementation to covers proper data models and custom REST API endpoints.
Attendees will learn how to design their WordPress backend to properly power a mobile app as well as how to putting together requirements that allow them to outsource non-WordPress development work for the custom client.
Workshop Length: 3hrs
Requirements
Attendees are assumed to have a working WordPress development environment where they can develop and test a custom plugin, and have a git client that they can use to clone a git repository and switch branches.