WordPress Just Got a JSON API. Here’s Why This Matters

WordPress started off as a humble blogging platform, and somehow found itself becoming a fully-fledged content management system that powers a significant proportion of the Internet, including this very website. Despite that, WordPress has a number of notable limitations, including a proper API. Well, that’s not quite true. Of course, for many years WordPress has had an XML-based Application Programming Interface (API) that allowed developers to create third party applications that interact with WordPress. But XML is horrible. It’s slow to parse. It’s hard to read. It’s astonishingly verbose. JSON is much, much better. It’s quick to parse, more human-friendly...

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