APIs are a fundamental part of getting web services to communicate with each other. Integrating with web services is becoming almost a must as we progress into the future. Pulling dynamic data in from REST APIs is a great way to build dynamic functionality into WordPress. When you combine WordPress’s remote request functionality with some custom controller and the WP REST API, you can make your website much more powerful and dynamic.
Another part of REST APIs is authentication, so we will be discussing oAuth for authentication and how to include authenticated REST calls into WordPress. There are also some commonly used tools we will be introduced to that make API development easier.
So if you want to be able to build services into your WordPress website that automatically absorb data from any web service (Facebook, Slack, Twitter, Yelp, you name it), and there isn’t a good plugin already out there to do it, then this talk is for you.