Scaling the REST API: Defensive Architecture for Custom Endpoints
The WordPress® REST API is the primary bridge to modern frontend frameworks. However, default endpoints are generic by design. Custom endpoints require precise logic to avoid over-fetching data and exhausting… Read more
5 Ways to Create a WordPress Plugin Settings Page
The extensibility of WordPress has always been one of its strong points. Not only are there thousands of plugins available, you can build your own. At some point, you might… Read more
Handling AJAX Requests in WordPress: WP REST API vs admin-ajax.php vs Must-Use Plugin
The WordPress REST API was merged into WordPress core in version 4.7. Before that, developers relied on the default AJAX implementation, otherwise known as admin-ajax after the /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php file that… Read more
How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3, React and the REST API (part 2)
This is article 2 of 2 in the series “How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3” Have you ever wondered how to get React working with the WordPress… Read more