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Building Client Side Applications with WordPress & WP-APIRoy Sivan Twitter/Github - @royboy789 roysivan.com | arcctrl.com
There will be code WP-API v1 code
There will be learning
There will be memes
Be Warned
WordPress developer at Disney and the co-founder of
My first install of WordPress was 0.7 and been a user & developer since
Roy Sivan Twitter/Github - @royboy789 roysivan.com | arcctrl.com
Who is this geek?
WHY?
Why build Web Applications with WordPress?
Why not?
MVC - Client Side
M - Model ( WP ) V - VIEW ( THEME ) C - CONTROLLER ( PLUGINS )
HOW?
It’s the best!
POP QUIZ What is the fastest file a web server
can serve?
CLIENT VS. SERVER SIDE - REQUESTS AND RESPONSEOne request to rule them all
“I want my blog posts”
SERVER CLIENT
Benefits of Loading Client Side
Less load on the server CDN all template files
Easier to cache JS and HTML VERY Scalable
AJAX - can transform your UI / UX
Single Page Web Application S.P.A
Not all apps need to be full S.P.A’s.
Living on the client side
wp_localize_script( ‘some-script', 'APIdata', array( ‘wp_api_url’ => esc_url_raw( get_json_url() ), ‘wp_api2_url’ => rest_get_url_prefix() . '/wp/v2/' 'api_nonce' => wp_create_nonce( 'wp_json' ), 'templateUrl' => get_bloginfo( 'template_directory' ) ) );
Step 0: Setup Variable for WP-API url (PHP)
Step 1: Custom Endpoints for you (WP-API v1 - PHP)
function register_routes( $routes ) { $routes[‘/my_route'] = array(
array( array( $this, ‘my_callback_function’), WP_JSON_Server::CREATABLE | WP_JSON_Server::ACCEPT_JSON )return $routes;
);
function my_callback_function() { …… }
// Get Pages $.get( APIdata.wp_api_url + ‘/posts’, { ‘type’: ‘page’ } .done( function( res ) { do_something( res ); }) .fail( function( error ) { console.log( error ); });
Step 2: Get Data from WP-API (using jQuery)
/posts - WP-API endpoint { ID: 1 content: '<p>Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!</p>', title: 'Hello world!', status: 'publish', author : {..}, ... }, …
Step 2.5: Get Data from WP-API The response object
(JSON)
Step 3: Beautiful Template with the dataCode Example: Client Side Loop
(AngularJS)
//list all posts - this is HTML <article class="postWrapper" ng-repeat="post in posts” > <h3 class="page_title text-center"> <a href=“/coh/#/post/{{post.ID}}” class="content"> {{post.title}} </a> </h3> {{post.content}} </article>
WHY?
Case Study: Client
Client
WordPress for:
Users User AuthenticationCustom Post Types Data Storage
WP-API / S.P.A for:
DOM MemoryUser ProfilesInline CommentingInline Bookmarks
Case Study: CodeCavalry
CodeCavalry.com
WordPress for:
Users User AuthenticationCustom Post Types Data Storage
S.P.A for:
Session (CPT) CreateFirebase - WebSocketUser DashboardUser Profiles
Awesome Resources
Roy Sivan Twitter/Github - @royboy789 roysivan.com | arcctrl.com
WP-API on GitHub & Repository https://github.com/WP-API/WP-API https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-rest-api/
CodeCavalry http://www.codecavalry.com
My Blog, AngularJS WP Theme & Plugin http://www.roysivan.com/blog http://www.roysivan.com/angular-wordpress-theme http://www.roysivan.com/angularjs-for-wordpress
Thank You Find me online: Twitter: @royboy789 Github: @royboy789 CodeCavalry.com/royboy789
Roy Sivan Twitter/Github - @royboy789 roysivan.com | arcctrl.com