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Ihtisham Zahoor

Sajjad Hussain

<p>WP Custom REST API Generator plugin provides an interface in WordPress Admin panel, which provides control to the user to show/hide Author Meta, Featured Image, Custom Fields and Taxonomies of all available Post Types for WordPress Rest API.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>WP Custom REST API Generator comes with the following features;</p>
<ul>
<li>Author Meta i:e. Author Name, Author Description, Author User Level, Author Avatar.</li>
<li>Featured Image with defined sized i:e. Small, Medium, Large, Full etc.</li>
<li>Custom Fields i:e. Fields defined by user for individual posts of different Post Types.</li>
<li>Taxonomies i:e. Default and Custom Taxonomies.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Automatic installation</h3>
<p>Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of this plugin, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.</p>
<p>In the search field type “WP Custom REST API Generator” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found this plugin, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.</p>
<h3>Manual installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download and unzip the WP Custom REST API Generator plugin</li>
<li>Upload the entire wp-custom-rest-api-generator/ directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory</li>
<li>Activate the WP Custom REST API Generator plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress</li>
</ol>
<p>Customize the WP Custom REST API Generator settings at the administration menu >> Settings >> WP Custom REST API Generator</p>


WP Custom REST API Generator

WP Custom REST API Generator plugin enables the user to show/hide varied meta information of Posts in WordPress REST API.

Pericor

<p>Automatically stores the meta data from the <code>meta</code> field of a wordpress REST API posts (<a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/posts/#create-a-post" rel="nofollow ugc">/wp-json/wp/v2/posts</a>) or pages (<a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/pages/#create-a-page" rel="nofollow ugc">/wp-json/wp/v2/pages</a>) POST in the meta data associated with the created page or post using <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_post_meta/" rel="nofollow ugc">update_post_meta</a>. The key / value information sent in the REST POST ‘meta’ object field is stored as both ‘key’ and ‘_key’ to support different plugin formats.<br />
For example, if trying to set the YOAST SEO Plugin values dynamically when creating a page from the REST API, you would simply add the fields to the meta field of the REST POST data when you POST the endpoint, and the plugin values will be added to the page:</p>
<pre><code>{
...
  'meta': {
    'yoast_wpseo_title': "Title set from REST call"
    'yoast_wpseo_metadesc': "Meta description set from REST call"
  }
...
}
</code></pre>
<p>Use this plugin when dynamically creating pages with the WordPress REST API to support modifying plugin settings for pages/posts created using the REST API!</p>
<p>A guide on how to use this plugin to generate a page/post with plugins configured from the REST API is <a href="https://www.pericror.com/software/generating-pages-posts-plugins-using-wordpress-rest-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">available at Pericror.</a></p>
<p>Inspired as a broader alternative to <a href="https://github.com/ChazUK/wp-api-yoast-meta" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-api-yoast-meta.</a></p>
<p>Compatible with the <a href="http://v2.wp-api.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">wordpress rest api version 2.</a></p>


REST API Meta Support

This plugin was developed and used to generate pages with a review plugin configured programatically using the rest API per page and works as described.

Works as Described

Stores meta data (i.e plugin settings) from the meta field of a WP REST API posts or pages POST creation call in the created page or post meta data.

WP Custom REST API Generator vs REST API Meta Support