Author Archives: Justin Shreve

Platform Updates: Posting Endpoints

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We have made a few recent additions to our posting APIs that allow more control when creating posts.

You can now

  • Set a custom slug for the post permalink using the slug parameter.
  • Disable or enable the publicizing of posts, or only publicize to certain services (Twitter, Facebook, etc) using the publicize parameter.
  • Pass a custom message to the above publicize services using the publicize_message parameter.
  • Set the status of a post as “pending review” by passing pending to the status parameter.

When getting a post you can now

  • Find the featured image for a post using featured_image which will return a URL.

Using the REST API with WordPress.org self-hosted sites via Jetpack

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As of Jetpack 1.9, the WordPress.com REST API can now access self-hosted WordPress blogs with the Jetpack plugin installed.

Instead of just building for the WordPress.com platform, you can build awesome applications that interact with WordPress in general. Any applications built using the API for WordPress.com will automatically work with Jetpack-enabled sites running Jetpack 1.9 or higher.

Check out our documentation, create an app, and get started today!