As WordPress continues to add new APIs and streamline existing ones, it’s becoming increasingly useful to a larger contingent of engineers, including those familiar with traditional Web APIs, such as REST or Soap, who are now approaching the CMS for the first time.
This session will focus on an API-first approach to understanding the fundamental concepts of WordPress engineering — an approach that may seem backwards at first to WordPress veterans and historians alike. The reality in 2017, however, is that API consumption has become the norm for front end development on the Web in general, and WordPress is no exception, becoming a first-class citizen with its newly-launched REST API. Similarly, though perhaps less well-known, PHP APIs such as Metadata API have also continued to evolve, and can be harnessed by those with limited PHP knowledge to safely and efficiently retrieve and display WordPress data using server-side code.
If you’re an experienced engineer new to WordPress looking to understand how to get developing quickly and correctly, or you’ve been using it for years and are curious about what all the fuss about APIs is all about, this talk is for you!