WordPress has a big market share on web. Rest APIs are a growing technique and a big opportunity for developers. Knowing how to create APIs and how to consume them gives you a great advantage. A REST API can be consumed everywhere. On mobile applications, on front-end (web apps) or any other devices that have access on the net.
Maybe your customer already has a site that is running on WordPress and also wants a mobile application. You can create the API using custom code and relying on the database but that can cause a lot of frustration. Maybe they're in a hurry and want the API as soon as possible. In WordPress, it is as simple as installing a plugin.
In this article, we will give a general overview of the JSON REST API plugin. We will cover how this plugin works and the basic philosophy of the REST architecture.
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