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WordPress Core, WordPress Themes, WP API

A WordPress Starter Theme Based on JSON REST API’s Backbone Client

The past few months I’ve had the opportunity to work on the new JSON REST API for WordPres. My biggest contribution as a WP API team member has been the Backbone client.

The JSON REST API’s Backbone client let’s you interact with a WordPress installation using Backbone.js collections and models. The client is an extremely useful tool in creating reactive web applications (which seems to be where the web is heading).

As a proof of concept, I created a WordPress starter theme based on Automattic’s _s named _s_backbone. Loops (or post streams) in _s_backbone are driven by Backbone.js collections. This means that posts are grabbed on the fly without a page reload. Pagination is accomplished through a “more” button which, again, does not require a page reload. This is commonly referred to as “infinite scroll”.

Please download _s_backbone from Github. Any feedback is appreciated.

Edit: Check out the WP Tavern article on _s_backbone.

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WordPress Core, WordPress Themes, WP API

A WordPress Starter Theme Based on JSON REST API's Backbone Client

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The past few months I’ve had the opportunity to work on the new JSON REST API for WordPres. My biggest contribution as a WP API team member has been the Backbone client.

The JSON REST API’s Backbone client let’s you interact with a WordPress installation using Backbone.js collections and models. The client is an extremely useful tool in creating reactive web applications (which seems to be where the web is heading).

As a proof of concept, I created a WordPress starter theme based on Automattic’s _s named _s_backbone. Loops (or post streams) in _s_backbone are driven by Backbone.js collections. This means that posts are grabbed on the fly without a page reload. Pagination is accomplished through a “more” button which, again, does not require a page reload. This is commonly referred to as “infinite scroll”.

Please download _s_backbone from Github. Any feedback is appreciated.

Edit: Check out the WP Tavern article on _s_backbone.

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WordPress Plugins

For the past year or so I’ve been using Automattic’s Syndication plugin to pull feed content into my WordPress plugin. Feeds that I designate are pulled in as posts using WordPress Cron. I decided while the plugin worked well for the most part, it wasn’t quite meeting my needs. This prompted me to build a new plugin called Feed Pull.

Here are some differences between the two plugins:

  • Feed Pull is a plugin for pulling content out of XML feeds. Syndication has feed pulling as well as content pushing features.
  • Feed Pull has a much friendlier feed management screen. Both Syndication and Feed Pull use the WordPress post edit, screen, however Feed Pull offers a much cleaner experience from the way options are presented to the instructions provided. At the moment Feed Pull does not have all the features of Syndication such as taxonomy and constant field mapping. However, Feed Pull probably has everything you need and is very extensible.
  • Feed Pull has far superior error logging to Syndication.
  • Feed Pull allows you to schedule content pulling in the future.
  • Feed Pull allows you to do manual pulls using AJAX rather than a sometimes frustrating one-time cron job.

Feed Pull contributions are always welcome on Github.

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