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NovarumImporter
JSON importer plugin for WordPress. It helps you call any REST Api endpoint and import JSON response to wordpress. It supports custom post types as well.
<h3>Handling Api Requests</h3>
Go to Settings->Novarum Importer and open \”Request Options\” tab. From this tab you can define how the api should be called and what parameters should be passed. Note that, this plugin uses PHP curl extension so it has to be enabled on the server side. Most of the hosting providers enable this feature by default.
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URL: This field is to define the url that will be called.
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Request Type: This is to choose what verb should be used when calling the url. Default is GET
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Fields: If the request type is POST or PUT, you can define the fields that can be passed as request body. If you are making a GET call you would need to add fields to the url instead.
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Authentication Type: Some api endpoints require you to pass Username and Password as Basic Authentication parameters on the header of the request. If that\’s the case, you can choose Basic Authentication and define the Username and Password. Apart from that, it\’s common for REST apis to require tokens on request body, on this case you would need to define it on Fields field.
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Headers: Some REST Api endpoints require specific header parameters, ie content type. If that\’s the case, you can define the header values on this text field. If you need to define more than one header key, please add one item per line. Ie:
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Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
Host: www.example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0
<h3>Setting up the Importer</h3>
If the request is correct and you get a valid JSON as response, you can now set up the parameters on how to import the data to wordpress.
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<li>Array key: This parameter is the key the plugin will iterate through to import all the items under this array. Ie, if your JSON response is as:</li>
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{ 
 “response”: 
 { 
 “data”: [ {“title”: “item 1”, “description”: “Description 1”}, 
 {“title”: “item 2”, “description”: “Description 2”}, 
 ] 
 } 
}
Then you can set Response.data as the array key
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Title key: Which key should be taken as the post’s title. This key should be under the Array key so according to above example it would be “title”
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Description key: Which key should be taken as the post’s content. This key should be under the Array key so according to above example it would be “description”
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Date key: Which key should be taken as the post’s date. This key should be under the Array key and it can be left blank. If it’s left blank it takes the current date as the post’s date.
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<h3>Notes</h3>
This plugin is under heavy development. If you have any suggestions, comments, or issues please send it to team@novarumsoftware.com or open a request.
<h3>TODO</h3>
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<li>Allow Meta tags and taxonomies to be imported as well</li>
<li>Make the api calls in the background</li>
<li>Realtime status display for import process</li>
<li>Allow api calls to be scheduled</li>
<li>Special settings for paginations (either with page value or with offset,limit combination)</li>
</ul>

Novarum Importer

JSON importer plugin for Wordpress. It helps calling any REST Api and importing JSON response to wordpress. It supports custom post types as well.

Jeff Starr

This plugin does one thing: disables the WP REST API for visitors who are not logged into WordPress. No configuration required.
This plugin works with only 22 short lines of code (less than 2KB). So it is super lightweight, fast, and effective.
Note: This plugin completely disables the WordPress REST API. So it is not recommended if you need the WP REST API for any functionality.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Disable REST/JSON for visitors (not logged in)</li>
<li>Disables REST header in HTTP response for all users</li>
<li>Disables REST links in HTML head for all users</li>
<li>100% plug-and-play, set-it-and-forget solution</li>
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The fast, simple way to prevent abuse of your site’s REST/JSON API
How does it work? That depends on which version of WordPress you are using..
WordPress v4.7 and beyond
For WordPress 4.7 and better, this plugin completely disables the WP REST API unless the user is logged into WordPress.
<ul>
<li>For logged-in users, WP REST API works normally</li>
<li>For logged-out users, WP REST API is disabled</li>
</ul>
What happens if logged-out visitor makes a JSON/REST request? They will get only a simple message:
“rest_login_required: REST API restricted to authenticated users.”
This message may customized via the filter hook, <code>disable_wp_rest_api_error</code>. Check out <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-entirely-for-non-techies/#post-12014965" rel="ugc">this post</a> for an example of how to do it.
Older versions of WordPress
For WordPress versions less than 4.7, this plugin simply disables all REST API functionality for all users.
More information available below in the FAQs section.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way. If anything it improves user privacy, as it protects potentially sensitive information from being displayed/accessed via REST API.
Disable WP REST API is developed and maintained by <a href="https://x.com/perishable" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeff Starr</a>, 15-year <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress developer</a> and <a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">book author</a>.
<h3>Support development of this plugin</h3>
I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can <a href="https://monzillamedia.com/donate.html" rel="nofollow ugc">make a donation</a> or purchase one of my books:
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</ul>
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Disable WP REST API

while the plugin si deadsimple and very low resource impact, keep in mind that there are plugins that need the rest to work with no auth (ex. contact form 7).

dead simple and efficient, but be aware

Disables the WP REST API for visitors not logged into WordPress.

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