API Archives - Tim Nolte

Talking to Other Sites with the WP HTTP API – Topher DeRosia

ByTim Nolte July 13, 2019July 13, 2019

Why Talk To Other Sites? Ask them questions – Getting Data Tell them things – Process Requests. How is This Done? GET – wp_remote_get() POST – wp_remote_post() HEAD – wp_remote_head() Cache API Content WordPress Sites (/wp-json) – pull public WordPress site data

Notes | Programming

WordCamp GR 2017 – WP-API: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – J Andrew Scott

ByTim Nolte August 26, 2017

J Andrew Scott – http://rubberchickenfarm.com/ History of APIs RSS Advantages Fast & reliable Easy to consume Almost no technical footprint Disadvantages Read-only Static content No authentication No user-driven content (i.e. comments, favorites, etc) DIY API Advantages Dynamic content User-driven content App & user authentication Roles & permissions based Connected applications Disadvantages DIY OAuth Redundant URI scheme…

Programming | Work

Enterprise API Development…Navigating The Battlefield

ByTim Nolte January 28, 2017January 29, 2017

Right now at work I’m the lead on a project to establish a new vendor API. Unfortunately there were decisions made on key specifications of how the API was to be developed before it was handed to me. Where I work there is a lot of legacy standards and so it’s challenging to introduce new…

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