I need to migrate content from Ning to WordPress 4.1 and I'm planning to use Rest Api(json-api plugin) for that purpose. But i get confused a little bit, there is no methods for creating blogs, events etc.
Is it possible to create blog using Rest Api?
You can use JSON-API WordPress plugin for creating the restful web-services that can be used for fetching the data from Wordpress.
And the plugin will provide the webservice url something like that :
www.mysite.com/api/servicename
Plugin link : https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api/
Hope it helps you some extent.
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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’m about to build an app that will look like a social network: people will be able to create accounts, like posts, save posts (But not create posts).
I’m searching the right platform to build my backend, I saw many options like Parse or Node.js but I did not see many people using WordPress as backend.
My question is why not use WordPress as my backend and develop custom plugins as I need? What is the pros and cons? Am I missing something that makes people not using WordPress?
Thanks
You can use the WordPress as the backend of your app as per your requirement, As WordPress allows wp-JSON API & WooCommerce API as well.
Also you can integrate the JWT Authentication for WP REST API plugin if you want to implement the JWT authentication
Also you can customize as per your requirement so i suggest to use the wordpress as backend of your app
There are a lot of people using Parse Server for building social networks and it is a great fit. Take a look at the following app template. It shows how to build an Instagram app.
https://www.back4app.com/database/back4app/instagram-clone-swiftui
I am looking to build a wordpress website with GatsbyJS (so no PHP usage. Just using Wordpress API and react JSX on the front-end).
I know I can get any core wordpress data at /wp-json route, but I'm not sure about plugin data. I've tried to look up plugin data and it does not seem to be included in wp-json.
I found this "compatible plugins" page: https://v2.wp-api.org/guide/plugins/
Does this mean that for most other plugins data would not be present in the Wordpress API?
Correct. Unless these plugins expose their data via the REST API (either by extending the existing endpoints or by creating their own, like some plugins do), you won't be able to access it.
In such cases, you either ask the developers to expose their plugin's data via the REST API or you code some custom endpoints yourself to get the data you need from them.
I'm trying to write a plugin that would add these endpoints GET, POST, DELETE /api/checked to access the plugin's custom table.
Is it possible for a Wordpress plugin to expose a RESTful API? I can't seem to find any examples or documentation.
The closest thing I found was add_rewrite_rule. I was able to create http://www.blog.com/api, but how do I determine the HTTP verb?
You can use WP REST API. Just install it and then go to settings -> permalink and add /%postname%/ on the last field.
then you'll have everything you need at [url]/json-api/
Here is the doc
You can use JSON-API WordPress plugin for creating the web-services that can be used for fetching the data from Wordpress.
And the plugin will provide the webservice url something like that :
www.mysite.com/api/servicename
Plugin link : https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api/
Hope it helps you some extent.
I saw in wordpress some APIs being published for developers. What could a developer gain by using those APIs?
I think you've taken API to mean something similar to what Flickr and Vimeo do, which they are not. They are simply ways for you to access and ammend core functionality of the Wordpress platform, so as to bend it to do what ever it is you need it to do.
There are ways to pull data from your blog to a mobile devise, but that is a very different question.
Wordpress API are for those that want to develop a theme, or writing custom plugins for Wordpress.
Either way, you can use to integrate Wordpress in your exisiting php site, using the powerful backend as an administration tool and the using the API to retrieve the content and present it in your (already) website.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website