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A more secure REST API

Posted on Thursday January 15th 2015Thursday January 15th 2015 by Joey Kudish

Because privacy and security are important to users across the internet, many services have begun to encrypt the connection between a user’s browser and their servers. The use of SSL (or TLS) largely eliminates the likelihood that a “man-in-the-middle” is able to monitor a user’s activities on the web. To this end, WordPress.com is joining ... Read More.

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Authentication improvements for testing your apps

Posted on Friday July 4th 2014Friday July 4th 2014 by Joey Kudish

We’ve just made it easier for developers to authenticate and test API calls with their own applications. As the client owner, you can now authenticate with the password grant_type, allowing you to skip the authorization step of authenticating, and logging in with your WordPress.com username and password. You can also gain the global scope so that ... Read More.

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A brand new Developer Site

Posted on Tuesday March 18th 2014Friday March 21st 2014 by Joey Kudish

As you may have noticed, we’ve just relaunched the WordPress.com Developer site (the very one you’re reading right now!) with a brand new look and feel! We’ve rebranded the site to match the overall WordPress.com aesthetic as well as to align with the new user management and insights sections we launched just a few weeks ... Read More.

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Custom post type and metadata support in the REST API

Posted on Friday April 26th 2013Monday August 8th 2016 by Joey Kudish

We’ve recently made some updates to the REST API which is available here on WordPress.com and for any Jetpack-enabled site that has the REST API module activated. The API now has full read and write support for custom post types and post metadata. You can specify a post’s post type when you create or edit it. ... Read More.

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