Progress on WP REST API

[Alex Tweedly]

The problem I am having with understanding / using Custom Post Types 
(CPTs) isn't the defining of them - it's trying to use them in display 
of anything other than the simplest output format. Wordpress has grown 
organically to be extremely powerful - but that growth has left it 
un-architected in many ways. Themes work with only some plugins, which 
work with only some CPTs - and there is no proper templating sub-system 
to handle display of those CPTs.

Visual Composer does indeed make it easy to define the layout / format 
for simple pages - but (in general) can't seem to handle CPTs.

pods is pretty effective, and (at a reasonable price) includes a 
template output system; I happily paid for it, but then found that it is 
thoroughly self-contained - you have to stop using VC for either index 
or individual pages.

types is (afaict from reading, haven;t yet tried it out) quite good - 
but they recommend using their "Views" tool to create templates for 
output - and that's a $150 cost. (OTOH it is (just in the couple of 
weeks) integrated with Visual Composer). If I had reasonable confidence 
that it would actually do what I want, I'd pay that without question - 
but I've had lots of experiences of themes / plugins / etc. in Wordpress 
that come with rather vague public documentation, and which turn out to 
require either premium add-ons, or shortcode programming, or even PHP 
programming, so I'm gun-shy of spending money to get to try something out.

So I'd request that whatever example app we come up with, we make show 
both WP as a web site *and* LC- WP-rest-api to build an app. Michael's 
suggestion of a member system sounds good. Another possibility would be 
booking (e.g. appointments, or classes) with Woocommerce handling the 
payments.

-- Alex.
btw - would it be worth having a separate forum for the whole lc-wp 
discussion ?  I would value benefitting from other' questions and your 
replies :-)
(Personally, I'd prefer an email list - but I realize that forums seem 
to be more popular nowadays).


On 07/07/2016 06:22, Todd Fabacher wrote:
> Here are two plugins that will allow WP to become a customizable DB server
> with little to no DB experience. Perfect for LC students and people who
> want to get a DB setup online, but don't have the experience or know-how.
>
> https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
> https://wordpress.org/plugins/acf-to-rest-api/
>
>
> but also, I have found many Custom Post Type Plugins:
>
> https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
> https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/
> https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/
> https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-maker/
>
> We can look to adding this to the LiveCode WP Rest API library. I get
> emails and I see some post of people asking how to setup a customized web
> data server. These would do the trick. Plus most are open source and FREE,
> but a few have a more feature rich commercial version.
>
>
> We would like to focus on creating a sample App in LiveCode that utilized
> WooCommerce. I think it is important to have several different example Apps
> before we start to pitch to the WP community at large...any ideas????
>
> Any other questions [please let me know. I have had about 2 dozen people
> email with questions and express interest in integrating WP with LiveCode.
>
> --Todd
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