Using ES modules in Node
Node has had experimental support for EcmaScript modules for a while. Again, this is one thing I've wanted to explore for a while but have never felt the need to dig deeper. After all, it is...
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Internationalizing WordPress Themes and Plugins (part 2)
Internationalizing a plugin # After setting up the text domain in your plugin metadata we need to load the translated files to use them. For plugins we use the load_plugin_textdomain function; it...
Internationalizing WordPress Themes and Plugins (part 1)
According to GALA (Globalization and Localization Alliance): Internationalization is a design process that ensures a product (usually a software application) can be adapted to various languages and...
Security Hardening WordPress
WordPress security is as good as you make it and you can always make it better. This post will discuss tools and techniques for making your WordPress installation more secure. Some of these are...
WordPress CMS CRUD (Part 5): Adding attributes to a REST API endpoint
When working with APIs we should never, under any circumstance, remove elements from the endpoint. Even if you're the owner there is no real way to know who's consuming your data and how they are...
WordPress CMS CRUD (part 4): Creating custom post types and adding them to the REST API
One of the things I've always liked about WordPress is its flexibility. We can extend WordPress and create pretty much any type of content that we need for specific projects. We can choose whether to...
WordPress CMS CRUD (Part 3): Some additional thoughts and ideas
In the last posts we created a CRUD system for authenticated WordPress requests but it's not complete. It currently only deals with the post content, it doesn't provide an easy way to paginate...
WordPress CMS CRUD (Part 2): Create, Update, Delete
So far we've installed JWT in our WordPress instance and created a basic infrastructure for the app. This post will take care of the rest of the CRUD system, we'll create/save a post, update it and...
WordPress CMS CRUD (part 1): Getting Started
The whole idea of the WordPress REST API is to allow developers to use whatever tools they choose to create front-ends for WordPress systems. We're no longer limited to PHP and the Gutenberg editor...
Adding JWT to WordPress
One of the things I've struggled with when working with headless WordPress is getting stuff that I need to be authenticated to accomplish; for example, I can get a list of posts and get an individual...