Using The WordPress REST API, Beginner Tips For Plugins, And More!
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SITEGROUND IS SPONSORING THIS SPECIAL MEETUP! TELL YOUR FRIENDS! :-)
Here's the planned agenda:
👉🏻 SiteGround presents "Using the WordPress REST API" - WordPress has several APIs available to programmer but none more important than the REST API. The REST API opens up WordPress to be controlled by - and interact with - other applications. Like pouring gasoline on an open fire, the possible uses and the usefulness of WordPress as an application foundation just explode.
Using the WordPress REST API is not difficult once you understand the basics. In this whirlwind tour, we will touch on those basics. You will learn what you need to know to setup secure access to your API and use it to both retrieve and store information in WordPress.
Speaker:
Cal Evans
https://blog.calevans.com/epk/
👉🏻 HOW TO FIND THAT PERFECT THEME OR PLUGIN - Bring your questions, and share any new plugins or themes or new ways you are using WordPress.
👉🏻 TOP 9 : "Top 9" Things That You Should Be Paying Attention To In the WordPress Space In the Last Month (Time Permitting)
New to WordPress? Submit us a topic and we'll talk about! Submit us questions, we want to share knowledge to you and the group!
If you haven't spoken at a meetup in the last month or two, and would like to have a speaking slot PLEASE REACH OUT.
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Room Numbers: We are in room 1052. It is NOT the same place as last month. It's in the first floor, same side of the building as Einstein's bagels.
Parking Pass: https://drive.google.com/open?id=10E3gUvVJW85oYLa5dx5Hc29yFeLkEacr (instructions on the pass - Park on the 2nd floor and above. This pass will not be honored in any
other area except as specified above. Parking in the metered section (1st floor) of the public garage costs $1.00 per hour)
NOTE: The pass should still be good for 2nd floor and above in the parking garage which is next to the venue building. If you want to not want to use this pass that's fine - park on the first floor, it's $1 per hour for parking.
MAP TO DeSANTIS BUILDING:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carl+DeSantis+Bldg,+Nova+Southeastern+University,+Davie,+FL+33314/@26.0806116,-80.2421017,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x88d9a82f6b1a6fdf:0x51d70ab0d7de5f
If anyone has any WordPress questions to throw at us, please bring them... list them in the comments section on meetup.com so we can be prepared.
FOOD:
Might be pizza, might not be. We'll see :-)
Bring yourself and a small donation for food if you plan on eating.
