project-05-quotesondev

Quotes on Dev Starter

A WordPress starter theme for the Quotes on Dev project. It is a combination of JavaScript and WordPress skills together to build out the functionality for a website called Quotes on Dev using the WordPress REST API.

Technologies

wordpress - website content management system php -is a server side scripting language used to develop static websites or dynamic websites or web applications npm - to generate a package.json file gulp - tools for automating tasks jquery - a javascript library ajax - a way to exchange data between the browser and the server without reloading the page json -a way to encode both simple and more complex data structures api - user interfaces allow people to work with programs sass - preprocessor scripting language that is interpreted or compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Learnings

1. How to pass data from the server side to the client side by making it available in JS variables using wp_localize_script() function.
2. How to use “nonces” to securely make Ajax requests in WordPress.
3. How to identify the core use cases for the WP REST API plugin, install the plugin, and use it to update post data from the front-end of a website via an Ajax request.