Gunjan Jaswal

EndPointy Menus adds custom REST API routes to expose your WordPress navigation menus as JSON.
Base namespace: <code>endpointy-menus/v1</code>
Endpoints:
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<code>GET /wp-json/endpointy-menus/v1/menus</code> 
Returns all registered menus with locations and items.
</li>
<li>
<code>GET /wp-json/endpointy-menus/v1/menus/<id></code> 
Returns a single menu and its items by menu ID.
</li>
<li>
<code>GET /wp-json/endpointy-menus/v1/locations</code> 
Returns all registered menu locations with assigned menus.
</li>
<li>
<code>GET /wp-json/endpointy-menus/v1/locations/<location></code> 
Returns a menu assigned to a specific location (e.g., ‘primary’, ‘footer’).
</li>
</ul>
Query Parameters:
<ul>
<li><code>nested=true</code> – Returns menu items in a hierarchical tree structure with parent-child relationships. 
Example: <code>/wp-json/endpointy-menus/v1/menus/2?nested=true</code></li>
</ul>
This is useful for headless WordPress setups or any external app that needs to read your menu structure.
<h3>Usage</h3>
Example requests:
Get all menus: 
 https://your-site.com/wp-json/endpointy-menus/v1/menus
Get single menu by ID: 
 https://your-site.com/wp-json/endpointy-menus/v1/menus/2
Get all menu locations: 
 https://your-site.com/wp-json/endpointy-menus/v1/locations
Get menu by location (e.g., ‘primary’): 
 https://your-site.com/wp-json/endpointy-menus/v1/locations/primary
Get nested menu structure: 
 https://your-site.com/wp-json/endpointy-menus/v1/menus/2?nested=true 
 https://your-site.com/wp-json/endpointy-menus/v1/locations/primary?nested=true
Use these URLs directly from your front-end application or API client.
<h3>Support the Developer</h3>
If you find this plugin useful, you can support the developer:
<ul>
<li>Website: https://gunjanjaswal.me</li>
<li>GitHub: https://github.com/gunjanjaswal/Endpointy-Menus</li>
<li>Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/gunjanjaswal</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! 
GitHub: https://github.com/gunjanjaswal/Endpointy-Menus 
Issues: https://github.com/gunjanjaswal/Endpointy-Menus/issues

EndPointy Menus

Expose WordPress menus via a custom REST API endpoint for headless and external applications.

ben.moody

Plugin provides a framework sets up WordPress as a headless CMS.
Framework options include:
<ul>
<li>JSON Web Token Authentication (optional)</li>
<li>Adds Gutenberg block data to REST responses (optional)</li>
<li>Protects REST requests with nonce (optional)</li>
<li>Cleans up REST response objects (optional)</li>
<li>Removes non required REST endpoints (optional)</li>
<li>Disables the frontend (optional)</li>
</ul>
All modules can be enabled/disabled or configured to suit most if not all WordPress as a headless CMS use cases.
Developing a single page React app but still want to use the WordPress theme based fronted.
Not a problem, maybe you just use these modules:
<ul>
<li>Adds Gutenberg block data to REST responses</li>
<li>Protects REST requests with nonce</li>
<li>Cleans up REST response objects</li>
<li>Removes non required REST endpoints</li>
</ul>
Developing a truly headless WordPress single page app or mobile app and just want WordPress for the backend?
Maybe use these modules:
<ul>
<li>JSON Web Token Authentication</li>
<li>Adds Gutenberg block data to REST responses</li>
<li>Protects REST requests with nonce</li>
<li>Cleans up REST response objects</li>
<li>Removes non required REST endpoints</li>
<li>Disable the WordPress frontend</li>
</ul>
You get the idea.
The plugin documentation is held inside the plugin ‘options’ page in the WordPress admin, although there are some docs for the custom rest endpoints:
<a href="https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/1175138/RztkPpV4#fc567f81-ff31-442e-a236-fa247bd1fd6c" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn More about plugin endpoint requests</a>
Anyway if you are looking to use WordPress as a headless CMS on a React, React Native, Angular, iOS/Android native project. This plugin should go a long way to setting WordPress up as you need it.

WP Headless CMS Framework

I like your plugin! Keep on going with this one! :)

Plugin provides a framework sets up WordPress as a headless CMS.

EndPointy Menus vs WP Headless CMS Framework