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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.
</li>
<li>
Request Type: This is to choose what verb should be used when calling the url. Default is GET
</li>
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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.
</li>
<li>
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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</ul>
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.
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
{ 
 “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”
</li>
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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”
</li>
<li>
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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</ul>
<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>
<ul>
<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.

Jason Bahl

Tyler

David Levine

Ryan Kanner

Geoff Taylor

Edwin Cromley

WPGraphQL is a free, open-source WordPress plugin that provides an extendable GraphQL schema and API for any WordPress site.
Get Started
<ol>
<li>Install WPGraphQL: <code>wp plugin install wp-graphql --activate</code></li>
<li>Try it out: <a href="https://repl.wpgraphql.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a></li>
<li>Read the <a href="https://wpgraphql.com/docs/quick-start" rel="nofollow ugc">Quick Start Guide</a>.</li>
<li>Join the <a href="https://discord.gg/AGVBqqyaUY" rel="nofollow ugc">Community on Discord</a> and <a href="https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql" rel="nofollow ugc">Star the Repo</a>!</li>
</ol>
Key Features
<ul>
<li>Flexible API: Query posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, users, and more.</li>
<li>Extendable Schema: Easily add functionality with WPGraphQL’s API, enabling custom integrations.</li>
<li>Compatible with Modern Frameworks: Works seamlessly with <a href="https://vercel.com/guides/wordpress-with-vercel" rel="nofollow ugc">Next.js</a>, <a href="https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/cms/wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Astro</a>, <a href="https://www.okupter.com/blog/headless-wordpress-graphql-sveltekit" rel="nofollow ugc">SvelteKit</a>, and more.</li>
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</ul>
WPGraphQL is becoming a <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/wpgraphql/" rel="ugc">Canonical Plugin</a> on WordPress.org, ensuring long-term support and a growing community of users and contributors.
<h4>Upgrading</h4>
It is recommended that anytime you want to update WPGraphQL that you get familiar with what’s changed in the release.
WPGraphQL publishes <a href="https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql/releases" rel="nofollow ugc">release notes on Github</a>.
WPGraphQL has been following Semver practices for a few years. We will continue to follow Semver and let version numbers communicate meaning. The summary of Semver versioning is as follows:
<ul>
<li>MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,</li>
<li>MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner, and</li>
<li>PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes.</li>
</ul>
You can read more about the details of Semver at semver.org
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
WPGraphQL uses <a href="https://appsero.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero</a> SDK to collect some telemetry data upon user’s confirmation. This helps us to troubleshoot problems faster and make product improvements.
Appsero SDK does not gather any data by default. The SDK starts gathering basic telemetry data only when a user allows it via the admin notice.
Learn more about how <a href="https://appsero.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero collects and uses this data</a>.
Learn more about how <a href="https://appsero.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero collects and uses this data</a>.

WPGraphQL


I operate a large blog that uses WordPress as a headless CMS with a Next.JS frontend, which is largely enabled by this plugin. Let me just say first that creating an entire alternative third-party data API is an ambitious undertaking and I appreciate all the work the authors have put into it.



But as a developer I have to throw out a word of caution that this plugin often has major bugs that can have critical impact on your production website. For example after a recent minor update  we discovered a bug where any URL with a special character in it started returning a 404, causing several of our pages to suddenly become unavailable to users and delisted from Google, and this went on for many months before we realized it.



There have been many similar instances. My general approach is to lean more on WordPress's REST API over time which is more reliable since it's maintained by the WordPress team, and only use WPGraphQL when it's necessary.



Also recommend turning off auto-updates and test your website extremely thoroughly after any upgrade.


Unreliable

GraphQL vs. REST API
  10    :     0

Thank you for this plugin. Building my headless application with WPGraphQL is fun. 
The repl interface to test queries is A+.

Speedy

WPGraphQL adds a flexible and powerful GraphQL API to WordPress, enabling efficient querying and interaction with your site's data.

Novarum Importer vs WPGraphQL