Today’s post concludes our series on custom Endpoints and API key access in WordPress API. As an example, let’s look at a case where we need to delete a post from the database by its ID, with data validation beforehand.
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We continue exploring the topic of custom endpoints in WordPress. Today we'll learn how to update data in the database using the WP API.
We continue exploring the topic of custom endpoints with API key access. Today we'll look at an example of saving data to the database and validating the key before saving.
I decided to slightly complicate our previous code by adding a simple API KEY access check. The example below demonstrates the most basic implementation of access control via a key. In real applications, it is recommended to use something more advanced, like access validation via a Bearer token.
As mentioned in previous articles, WP has a rich set of built-in features for working with its API.
Today, we’ll look at how to create a custom endpoint to read data.
To implement a basic API in WordPress, we’ll need the action hook rest_api_init and the function register_rest_route.