Feeling restless

Pardon the stupid pun but I’m just traveling from the amazing #feelingrestfull conference and am really feeling that way (apart from being tired – don’t ask me why they’d call it “A Day of REST” ). Let me share a couple of thoughts. 1. The API thing is going to be huge With some examples like fetching data from WordPress and using Ghost themes (!) to render the site one just cannot stop thinking what’s going to happen in the next couple of years. Big players like The New York Times and Wired are already using “APIzed” WordPress installations as part of their platforms but the idea of small API endpoints everywhere personally excites me. 2. What core cannot fix, projects around it can The REST API is going to be merged into the core soon but it started as an external project and I still feels to me that way (the team working on it, the infrastructure on GitHub etc.). WP-CLI is another external project, VersionPress another one etc. They all bring something different to the table but the problems they encounter, internally, are surprisingly similar or related. For example, Daniel Bachhuber talked about how WP-CLI will auto-expose REST API endpoints as WP-CLI commands which is great. But #wordpress #smallbusiness #entrepreneur

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