API Integration with WordPress - Rob Ruiz
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.
Speaker Bio:
Rob Ruiz has been doing web design/development for over 10 years now and a WordPress user for five years. He’s been developing plugins and themes for a little over three years now. Rob also does a lot of graphic design, UI/UX design, and teaching. He is also the lead organizer for WP Omaha and co-organizes Wordcamp Omaha.
He works a full-time position at Orion Advisor Services as a WordPress Software Engineer developing custom WordPress-based solutions that integrate a variety of web services and REST APIs with an industry leading Investment Advisor software platform. He is also the owner of Bizzle Designs, which specializes in extremely customized WordPress-based websites for small-to-medium-sized businesses of all kinds.