REST API

It’s no secret that I am a fan of the WordPress REST API. I use it all the time on new projects, but adding REST API support to my main project — Caldera Forms — has been difficult. Modern WordPress development requires writing PHP code that allows for the same actions to be performed in response to a traditional admin/ front-end HTTP request, a REST API request or WP-CLI request, using the same internal PHP API. In the past, I don’t think following this philosophy mattered much. Settings were changed on admin pages and content was displayed on the front-end. […]

I’ve written a lot about the WordPress REST API for Torque, but one thing I have not covered is unit testing custom APIs. That is exactly what this article is. I used a PHP program run the code and compare the results to an expected value. If you want to learn more, I would recommend reading Pippin Williamson’s series on WordPress unit testing. It’s quite excellent and covers how to setup your local environment for testing and how to write tests. For example here is a very simple test: <?php function answer(){ return 42; } class Test_42 extends WP_UnitTestCase { […]