I have used Contentful before to host content and access it in my application via REST. It works great however it is not free.
I am trying to find out if I can host my app's content similarly on Wordpress and access it in my app using its REST apis.
Does anybody know if we can and how? It is not that straight forward to figure out on their website.
PS: I don't care about the security about the website content.
wordpress has an embeded REST API, this can be done easily, check the REST API Handbook in the following url here: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/
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I tried to use one plugin called "WP Data Sync". I am also going through its documentation/ support for the same. I am also having wpbakery page builder in my website. So is there any way that we sync with that also?
Note - We have to sync data in the form of images, image gallery, events listing, and the blog posts.
Did you check out WP Data Syncs website at https://wpdatasync.com/ and create an account to check out an API key?
I'm not sure about all APIs, but the ones I've used in the past would require me to register with the API's website, get issued an API key and maybe even designate the key to a specific website (your WordPress site in this case) for security reasons. After that, you would then go to your WP site and setup the API there via WP DataSyncs plugin.
I hope I understood your question and that this helps.
I am new to web development and and would like advice about what is the usual best practices to achieve what I am trying to do.
I am in charge of writing a frontend app using Vue. This frontend will require a login to access the app. The app will be hosted on Amazon.
However we are also wanting to build an eCommerce site in Wordpress or equivalent that sits on the root of the website, (eg www.mywebsite.com) with the app accessible through a "sign in" button. If the user presses the sign in button we want the location bar location to not change from the website they are on (www.mywebsite.com), even though the Wordpress site and Vue frontend may be stored on different locations/domains.
If the site is made in Wordpress, we can get another developer to do that webpage for us, while I work on the frontend. However we want the experience to be relatively seamless between connecting to the wordpress root site, clicking on the sign in button and being taken to the Vue frontend.
Is this possible? Do both sites have to be hosted on the same server for it to work (eg an Amazon EC2 server which hosts two webpages, the wordpress one and the vue one)?
Or can the wordpress put a link to the Vue frontend which doesn't change the web location to the user?
Or (worst case scenario) do we need to make both webpages in Vue as one Vue application, some pages requiring login to access and others not?
Thanks kindly for any assistance.
So in order to use Vue and WordPress together, you can either write 2 separate applications. One for the Frontend and one for the Backend, which is perfectly fine or you can simply write a WordPress Application with a Vue Theme.
This is how this could look like:
WordPress Backend
You can use a normal WordPress backend, where you can build the architecture you want to. In addition, you need to set up the REST-API Wordpress provides. So this also means, just use plugins which support it. Otherwise, you would need to write custom endpoints. For example, Woocommerce would be a good e-commerce plugin, since it supports the API.
Learn more about it here: https://v2.wp-api.org/
Of course, you can host your WordPress installation on Amazon. Here is a good guide for that: https://aws.amazon.com/de/getting-started/tutorials/launch-a-wordpress-website/
Notice: The REST-API is available in core since 4.7. If you are using an older version you would need to install a plugin.
WordPress Frontend
In order to create your Frontend, I'd recommend you to make a custom theme. Since you are just serving static files this can be done pretty easy. But still, you don't need to reinvent the wheel.
There's a really good starter theme out there: https://github.com/EvanAgee/vuejs-wordpress-theme-starter
It comes with all the stuff you need to get started and since it is just a theme, you can simply set up a usual WordPress hosting without handling Domains of multiple applications.
In order to get the data from the Backend, you would simply make calls to the REST-API. Here's an example: https://github.com/EvanAgee/vuejs-wordpress-theme-starter/blob/master/src/api/index.js
I would like to build Single Page Web Application (SPA) with React.js.
Application would need some Content Management System for back-end. I was thinking to use WordPress and their REST-API's but I don't know how to retrieve data from my wordpress installation.
Back-end and front-end would be in different domains so just building WP theme with React.js wouldn't work.
Basically, I don't know how to call and populate data from wordpress to my front-end.
I would need someone to point me to the right direction. And, maybe recommend easier CMS to use in this task.
Actually it is very easy to access your WordPress website data through HTTP REST API
Here you have the full documentation on WordPress REST APi
http://v2.wp-api.org/
I'd like to have a Wordpress installation to serve blog content for my site under the directory /blog
My site runs on Spring Mvc and I'd like of course to maintain the basic layout (saying Header and Footer) of my site and integrate the wordpress blog on it.
What could be some approach to do this?
I'm using Tiles as my Template mechanism so I was basically thinking to handle /blog request with my requestDispatcher and internally forward the request to Wordpress, then take the response and stream it inside the Content Tile section of my pages so to keep the basic look of my site for header and footer.
But I'm not sure of this approach.
How are you doing this? I can see they also have some RestAPI
If you simply want to use WordPress as a content management system and Spring MVC + Tiles to display your blog, then exposing your WordPress pages and posts with an API plugin such as WP Rest API or JSON API sounds like a great solution. This is how we manage our faq/contact/terms and conditions/etc. pages.
To make it faster, we synchronize (with a CRON job) each 30 minutes the content between our application database and the WordPress instance so that when the page is requested by an user the content is not pulled from WordPress but from the application DB. And then to make it even faster we created an Hibernate cache that lasts 30 minutes for this kind of data.
I have recently written a library in Spring, that uses WP REST API plugin to fetch content from WordPress. You might find it useful. Here is blog post on how to integrate Spring Boot and WordPress.
I have built an asp.net application from which I would like to post blog entries to wordpress, using the wordpress API. Thus far I have been unable to find any good tutorials or walkthroughs to do so. How might I use the wordpress API to upload blog content via an asp.net application?
I know that you should use the xml-rpc (probably need to enable on your server under administration area). xml-rpc. However, actual implementation details I am not positive on. Hopefully this gives you a start.
http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp