WP REST API: Actionable.co
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The document discusses how Actionable.co, a distributed company, uses the REST API to manage their various websites and third party integrations. Some key uses of the REST API include retrieving content from WordPress to populate their learning platform, linking blogs between three websites, automating tasks like notifying managers when employees complete onboarding courses, and managing users across multiple sites without using multisite. The REST API allows them to optimize caching, avoid custom coding, and automate workflows between their sites and third party services.
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WP REST API: Actionable.co
- 1. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper REST API Case Study: Actionable.co WordCamp Miami 2017 Shawn Hooper Director of IT, actionable.co
- 2. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Good Afternoon! I’m Shawn Hooper, the Director of IT at Actionable.co Being a distributed company, everything we do is in the cloud…. Actionable
- 3. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Our core offering is the Actionable Conversations platform. (NodeJS) Actionable
- 4. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Our core offering is the Actionable Conversations platform. (NodeJS) We also have 3 public-facing websites marketing to different audiences (all WordPress). Actionable
- 5. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Our core offering is the Actionable Conversations platform. (NodeJS) We also have 3 public-facing websites marketing to different audiences (all WordPress). Our Intranet is also a WordPress site. Actionable
- 6. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper We also use many 3rd party services w/ APIs: Teachable (Online Courses) Infusionsoft (CRM) Zoom (Webinars & Conference Calls) G Suite (Google Apps) Xero (Accounting) BambooHR (HR Management) …. and many more Actionable
- 7. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper How we use the REST API…
- 8. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper To Manage Content…
- 9. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Actionable Conversations Learning & Development Platform Developed in NodeJS Our learning modules are content. Used the WP REST API to retrieve modules & avoid making a custom CMS. Why re-invent the wheel…
- 10. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Modified ‘module’ Custom Post Type endpoint to return required meta fields with the register_rest_field() function. Why re-invent the wheel…
- 11. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Modified ‘module’ Custom Post Type endpoint to return required meta fields with the register_rest_field() function. Wrote a plugin that added WPML information to this post type, showing current locale, and the locale, post ID and permalink to other available languages. Why re-invent the wheel…
- 12. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Linking Between Blogs
- 13. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper We have three public facing websites with blogs. Using the REST API, we retrieve the most recent post from each blog and display them in a widget on all the sites. /wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?per_page=1 (Cached for 24 hours) Linking Between Blogs
- 14. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper We no longer use admin-ajax.php to handle AJAX requests, but REST endpoints instead. - Better Documented ( wp-json/ ) - Code re-use from other sites and apps (Example: Looking up valid email address) Goodbye admin-ajax.php
- 15. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper To Optimize…
- 16. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Clearing the Cache
- 17. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Clearing the Cache The data about our consultant network is maintained in one of our internal databases. The page is populated using a shortcode. This is slow. So I cached it. Forever.
- 18. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Clearing the Cache Clear the cache only on data change
- 19. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper To Automate…
- 20. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Problem: An employee’s manager & HR need to know when a new team member completes their on boarding courses in Teachable. Solution: Use REST API to accept web hooks from Teachable and then interface with Slack and our HRMS. Teachable Webhooks
- 21. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper When an opportunity is marked as Closed-Won in Infusionsoft, we automatically create a record in our accounting software using the WP REST API. Infusionsoft -> Xero
- 22. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper Problem: User Management of Several Websites without Multisite Solution: Use REST API to remotely create user accounts from an admin page on our Intranet. Bulk User Creation
- 23. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper POST /wp/v2/users/ combined with Google Apps Login plugin. Bulk User Creation
- 24. Blog - shawnhooper.ca Twitter - @shawnhooper You can find these slides, notes and more at shawnhooper.ca Tweet Me @shawnhooper WordPress Slack: shooper Thank You!