Integrating WordPress with External APIs

Learn to use WordPress’s built in functionality (especially the HTTP library) to integrate with external APIs. We’ll touch on properly caching results to keep your site fast, fault tolerance, and even how to handle those strange APIs that send you data when you didn’t send a request for it (PayPal IPNs anyone?). We’ll talk theory, but mostly we’ll look at plenty of code and walk through examples from plugins that you can constantly refer back to for example code.

Speaker

About Aaron D. Campbell

Aaron is an international speaker, open source advocate, and outgoing introvert. He is currently the VP of Product at Monarx and has been helping companies create, and bring to market, compelling and competitive product offerings for the last 10 years for brands such as GoDaddy, Newfold Digital, A2Hosting, and hosting.com. He’s been a regular contributor to the WordPress open source project for nearly two decades and applies his knowledge of, and passion for, open source to align companies with those projects to improve their own products and offerings while providing better and more secure open source solutions to their customers.