Custom Endpoints To add endpoints to our API we must first have a route to which we will be adding the endpoints, basically routes are the URLs and endpoints are the methods and the function it will perform on particular…
WP REST API Pagination Our WordPress site can hold many information, that’s why pagination becomes a requirement, when browsing our site -> the content is already paginated. The REST API also supports pagination and follows the default WordPress pagination parameters…
REST API There are many times when we need to access the data from inside our site from the front end or to be integrated into other sites, so we need the data without the visual tags -> Data without…
MU Plugins MU plugins, also known as Must Use Plugin are the plugins which are always activated inside a WordPress site, they are not shown inside the normal plugin list in a WordPress site, instead they are shown inside the…
Creating custom database table WordPress by default comes with an organized structure of tables, but if we are dealing with our custom post types it does not make any sense to use to store the data in the default table…
Roles and Capabilities The user system in the WordPress has built in roles and capabilities system which helps us define that user will have access to which part of the site and what actions a particular user is allowed to…
Rewrite API Class The global rewrite API instance is stored under $wp_rewrite The rewrite class is located under wp-includes This class is responsible for generating and executing the rewrite rules in WordPress. The request we get on our WordPress page…
Transients Where are transients stored? Transients are stored in the wp_options table in wordpress by default. Whenever we create a transient the transient create two rows in the wp_options table What will happen if we set the transient without an…
Caching in WordPress In some cases, we might want to limit the amount of request we send to a server or send through our server, there can be various reasons for this like rate-limit, bandwidth saving etc. For that we…
WordPress HTTP API In any web application we must require to fetch some data from other URL or servers for various data.In PHP we used the cURL or file_get_contents() for this. WordPress provides us with its own APIs to handle…
WP_Query WordPress provides us a default way to interact with the posts programatically -> We can use the default $wp_db variable to run SQL queries but it is not recommended because WP_Query gives us the caching ability as well by…
WordPress Plugins Not all of these are required, only the Plugin Name is required to get our plugin functional. __ PLUGIN LOADING ORDER IN WORDPRESS __ Actions and Filter : Actions: Actions allows us to add or change data in…