Custom routes and endpoints

[jonathanbossenger]

Details

• Content type (Online Workshop, Lesson, Course, Tutorial, or Lesson Plan): Lesson
• Content title: Custom routes and endpoints
• Topic description: How to create custom routes and endpoints to create your own URL mappings, or custom queries.
• Audience (User, Developer, Designer, Contributor, etc.): Developer

• Experience Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Any): Intermediate

  Prerequisites

  It is assumed that the learner has already completed the following lessons:

• Beginner WordPress developer

• Modules 1 - 8

  Learning Objectives

• Describe how to create a custom REST route
• Discuss the importance of Namespacing routes
• Explain how to interact with route arguments
• Explain different methods of return value
• Demonstrate how to implement security for a custom route

  Related Resources and Other Notes

• https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/extending-the-rest-api/adding-custom-endpoints/

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