Headless WordPress REST API Authentication

Learn how to connect decoupled websites and applications with WordPress using JWT Auth and JavaScript

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Headless WordPress REST API Authentication

What You Will Learn!

How to setup WordPress to handle decoupled authentication
How to make authenticated WordPress REST API call
How to use JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and JavaScript for decoupled authentication
How to store authentication data in secure cookies
How to handle login and logout forms and processes
How to add, edit and delete content via the WordPress REST API

Description

Many developers and top agencies have learned how to use WordPress as a headless CMS, where WordPress stores the content, but Modern JavaScript driven websites and applications display the content and provide customized interactivity.

One of the key components to using WordPress as a Headless CMS involves authenticating to allow full read, write and delete access to everything the WordPress REST API provides.

In this course you will learn the following:

The different types of authentication available
How to work with the JWT Authentication Standard
How to setup WordPress to offer authentication
How to write secure JavaScript to authenticate
How to build login and logout forms
How to add, edit and delete content using authenticated WordPress REST API calls

Throughout the course we will build a custom decoupled project using simple JavaScript, but all of the code can be easily converted over to work with React, Vue, Angular and other JavaScript frameworks.

Who Should Attend!

Theme Developers who want to build decoupled sites powered by WordPress and JavaScript
Plugin Developers who want to build functionality that works outside of the WordPress admin
App Developers who want to build JavaScript apps powered by WordPress
Any Developer looking to use WordPress as a data store

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