Joe Bailey-Roberts

<p>Logged in users are redirected to the editor screen for the post, while non-logged in users must log in first. This means that you can share a readable link straight to the editor, depending on your permalink settings.</p>
<p>Good for task management or organisation resource management.</p>
<h3>What the plugin actually does</h3>
<p>In simple terms, the plugin removes the frontend of the WordPress site. Post permalinks go straight to the editor page, and the theme is mostly redundant.</p>
<h3>Why would I want to do that?</h3>
<p>This is definitely not a useful plugin for a public-facing website. Instead, this allows you to convert WordPress into a headless CMS for managing tasks, content and more, all protected by the standard user role system. You can share a post permalink with a collaborator and they will be directed straight to the editor screen.</p>
<p>Maybe you want to go a step further and create an external application to display your WordPress content elsewhere using the API. In this case you definitely don’t want the standard WP frontend accessible!</p>


WP Headless

A lightweight plugin to disable the WP frontend experience.

danielauener

<p>This plugin adds a couple of extensions to the WordPress Rest API, which are aimed to make the use of WordPress as headless CMS easier.<br />
It is originally coded for <a href="https://github.com/northosts/wuxt" rel="nofollow ugc">WUXT</a>, a dockerized development environment for headless WordPress combined with NuxtJs. However, it can be used by every other application, which needs a powerful headless WordPress back-end.</p>
<h3>WordPress API Extensions</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Frontpage endpoint</strong>: There is no obvious way to get the WordPress front-page via the Rest API. To read the settings, you have to be authorized, which makes things unnecessary complicated. The new endpoint returns the front-page object if it is set, the ten newest posts otherwise.</li>
<li><strong>Menu endpoint</strong>: Right now, there is no way I know of, for getting menus from the API. This endpoint returns an entire menu as nested array. Default location is “main”, but you can request other locations.</li>
<li><strong>Slug endpoint</strong>: If you are building a front-end app on top of WordPress, you have to think about how to structure your urls. WordPress has two default post-types (posts & pages) and in the urls is not distinguished which type you are requesting, so http://wp-site.expl/something might lead to a page or a post, dependent on the type of the object with the slug something. If you want to mirror that behaviour in your app, you have to do two requests for each url, one searching pages, one searching posts. To make that one request, use the slug end-point.</li>
<li><strong>Taxonomy filter AND extension</strong>: When filtering taxonomies with an Rest API request, all queries are OR-queries. That means you can get posts which are either in category A or B. Our adjustment lets you switch all tax_queries to an AND-relation, so that you can select posts which are both in category A and B.</li>
<li><strong>Geo query</strong>: If your application has to get posts by geographical proximity, you can use a geo query.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress SEO meta fields</strong>: They are included automatically in the <code>meta</code> object if the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin is activated.</li>
<li><strong>Advanced custom fields</strong> are included automatically in the <code>meta</code> object if the plugin is activated.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Endpoints and parameters</h3>
<p><strong>Frontpage</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wuxt/v1/front-page</code></li>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wuxt/v1/front-page?_embed</code></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Menu</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wuxt/v1/menu</code></li>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wuxt/v1/menu?location=<location></code></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Slug</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wuxt/v1/slug/<post-or-page-slug></code></li>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wuxt/v1/slug/<post-or-page-slug>?_embed</code></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Taxonomy filter AND extension</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?categories=1,2&and=true</code></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>GEO query</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?coordinates=<lat>,<lng>&distance=<distance><km|m></code></li>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?coordinates=<lat_meta_field>:<lat>,<lng_meta_field>:<lng>&distance=<distance><km|m></code></li>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?coordinates=52.585,13.373&distance=10</code></li>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?coordinates=lat_mkey:52.585,lng_mkey:13.373&distance=10</code></li>
<li><code>GET</code> <code>/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?coordinates=52.585,13.373&distance=10m</code></li>
</ul>
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.danielauener.com/wordpress-rest-api-extensions-for-going-headless-wp/" rel="nofollow ugc">More detailed end-point description</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/northosts/wuxt" rel="nofollow ugc">WUXT</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.danielauener.com/nuxt-js-wordpress-wuxt/" rel="nofollow ugc">WUXT release blog post</a></li>
<li><a href="https://nuxtjs.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">NuxtJs</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Michael Cox <a href="https://gist.github.com/michaeland/191ce08d22fed74da05a" rel="nofollow ugc">Menu Class for returning a menu as array</a></li>
</ul>


WUXT Headless WordPress API Extensions

Extensions for the Rest API to provide endpoints that support a more convenient use of headless WordPress as back-end CMS.

WP Headless vs WUXT Headless WordPress API Extensions