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.
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)
- How to pass data from the server side to the client side by making it available in JS variables using wp_localize_script() function.
- How to use “nonces” to securely make Ajax requests in WordPress.
- 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.