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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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