The WordPress REST API

When you're developing for WordPress, there are a number of APIs that you can use to interact with your site data. One of the most important of these is the REST API.

This lesson serves as an introduction to the WordPress REST API.

You will learn what the REST API is, as well as some key REST API concepts like routes, endpoints and global parameters, through a series of example requests you can perform in a browser.
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0:00 Introduction
0:37 What is the WordPress REST API?
1:12 What does REST API mean?
2:06 Routes & Endpoints
2:56 Local Development Testing
3:28 Example Routes & Endpoints
5:07 Global Parameters
6:15 Pagination and Ordering
6:48 Further Reading