Copypress Rest API

The COPYPRESS REST API plugin extends the WordPress REST API with custom endpoints for managing posts, categories, tags, post types, and taxonomies.

Features

• Create, update, and delete posts via REST API.
• Fetch categories, tags, post types, and taxonomies.
• Supports CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) for making API requests from different origins.
• Allows attaching images to posts via URLs.

Endpoints

1. /copypress-api/v1/login – Login with username and password to get a JWT token.

   • Request Body:
   • username (string): WordPress username
   • password (string): WordPress password

2. POST /copypress-api/v1/posts – Create a new post.

   • Request Body:
     • title (string): The title of the post.
     • content (string): The content of the post.
     • excerpt (string, optional): The excerpt of the post.
     • category (int, optional): The category ID of the post.
     • tags (string, optional): Comma-separated list of tag slugs.
     • image (string, optional): URL of an image to be set as the post’s featured image.
     • post_type (string, optional): The post type (default: post).
     • author_id (int, optional): The ID of the post author (default: current user).
     • post_status (string): Post publish status.
   • Response: Success message, HTTP status code, and created post object.

3. PUT /copypress-api/v1/posts/{id} – Update an existing post.

   • Request Body: Same as POST endpoint.
   • Response: Success message, HTTP status code, and updated post object.

4. DELETE /copypress-api/v1/posts/{id} – Delete a post.

   • Response: Success message and HTTP status code.

5. GET /copypress-api/v1/categories – Get all categories.

   • Response: Category ID, name, and slug.

6. GET /copypress-api/v1/tags – Get all tags.

   • Response: Tag ID, name, and slug.

7. GET /copypress-api/v1/post-types – Get all public post types.

   • Response: Post type name and label.

8. GET /copypress-api/v1/get-taxonomies/{post_type} – Get all taxonomies (categories and tags) associated with a specific post type.

   • Response: List of categories (hierarchical taxonomies) and tags (non-hierarchical taxonomies).

CORS Support

This plugin allows cross-origin requests for all the REST API endpoints, enabling requests from different domains.

Allowed Methods:

• GET, POST, PUT, DELETE

Allowed Headers:

• Content-Type, X-Custom-Header, x-csrf-token, Authorization

Allowed Origin:

• * (Any domain)

Usage

Once the plugin is activated, the custom API routes are available for interaction with posts, categories, tags, post types, and taxonomies. You can make requests to the respective endpoints from any external application or client that can interact with REST APIs. To create or update posts, a valid JWT token must be provided in the Authorization header as:
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN_HERE

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 license.