April 21, 2021 — This talk is a comparison of the REST API and GraphQL, and will help developers and stakeholders understand each tool in order to make an informed decision on which one to use.

January 15, 2021 — This talk explains how to use the WordPress Rest API to syndicate content to a potentially unlimited number of locations using technologies native to WordPress. It covers the basics of JSON, code examples, and suggests optimizations for using the Rest API at scale.

November 27, 2020 — Hay términos que solo escucharlos nos parecen tremendamente complejos y a veces ni siquiera tenemos muy claro ni para qué sirven.

En esta sesión vamos a echar un vistazo a la Rest API de WordPress. ¿Qué es? ¿Para qué sirve? y sobre todo… ¿Qué nos permite hacer?

Nada mejor para entenderlo que nos muestren ejemplos concretos de cosas que podemos hacer con ella.

November 24, 2020 — WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform on the web and is a major eCommerce platform based on WordPress. Many businesses use WordPress and WooCommerce to manage their online presence. However, many store owners use other applications to manage their business, and often have no integration between these offline and online applications. In this session, he’ll demonstrate how you can use WordPress and WooCommerce REST APIs to seamlessly integrate together. As an example, Saleeh will show how to integrate a Telegram bot/Google Assistant with your WooCommerce-powered eCommerce store, and get notifications on new orders and updates. Various features like list all your orders, listing products, displaying order Summary, using webhooks to receive instant notifications of new WooCommerce orders, and a lot more can be achieved using such integrations.

November 3, 2020 — With the web ecosystem steadily moving towards JavaScript frameworks and JAMstack setups, let’s see how to get up to speed with those latest headless trends.

During this hands-on workshop, we will build a React front-end pulling content from WordPress with GraphQL, and using Gatsby as a static website generator. Some knowledge of WordPress Rest API, Node or React is a plus but not a requirement. We will go through each step following a homemade GitHub tutorial with concrete examples, including the initial setup and a deployment on a serverless hosting and continuous integration (CI) platform. As an extra, we will also explain how to easily make your Gutenberg layout work with your React website.

Bring your own bottle laptop (BYOL) and join us if you are curious about headless architecture.

July 11, 2020 — What is the WP REST API and how can I use it to make forms and pages that don’t need to do be reloaded?
In this talk, we will look at what the WP REST API is, how to modify existing ‘endpoint’s as well as creating our own custom endpoints.
We will also make a small WP REST API site that carries out GET and POST requests for forms and pages as well as use the WP-Nonce security mechanism.
All code files will be available so that you can start to use the WP REST API right away!

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July 11, 2020 — What is the WP REST API and how can I use it to make forms and pages that don’t need to do be reloaded?
In this talk, we will look at what the WP REST API is, how to modify existing ‘endpoint’s as well as creating our own custom endpoints.
We will also make a small WP REST API site that carries out GET and POST requests for forms and pages as well as use the WP-Nonce security mechanism.
All code files will be available so that you can start to use the WP REST API right away!

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July 11, 2020 — Are you creating content that you believe is under-performing? Or are you looking to start a website and aren’t sure what content to create? Regardless of your situation, this session will help you step back and create a content strategy that will ensure you have a purpose and audience in mind for every piece of content you publish. You’ll pick up tips that will help you narrow your content focus, identify your unique content angle, match the language of your prospective customers for SEO, and better understand what content to create and why.

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June 26, 2020 — Learn about the WordPress REST API, and how to use it to make forms and pages that don’t need to reload. This talk includes stepping through the build of a small WordPress REST API site.

March 2, 2020 — The web has grown quite a bit over the last decade, and WordPress has fallen behind ever so slightly. More applications are being brought to the web with JavaScript and more dynamic websites are being built with languages like Python and Ruby.

WordPress core and even a few professional WordPress developers feel that WordPress’ heavy reliance on PHP and minimal use of
JavaScript has become far too outdated. This is something the WordPress REST API is meant to solve.

This doesn’t mean WordPress is moving away from PHP, but it does mean developers should consider learning JavaScript if they want to take advantage of what this API has to offer.