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Sebastian Nitu
8,616 PointsWordpress, JSON and iOS Blog Reader App
I am preapring to start the "build a blog reader" app, but I need to gahter some info since I already have a potential client intereasted in a "blog reader" iPhone app.
Here comes the question:
Does Wordpress support JSON by default? If not, what is the easiest way to implement it while avoiding diving inot web development etc.
4 Answers
Pasan Premaratne
Treehouse TeacherHey Sebastian Nitu,
Wordpress doesn't support it by default I think but there are plenty of plugins that will let you do that. Here's one that gives you a JSON feed for all your posts.
Sebastian Nitu
8,616 PointsAmit Bijlani, Faye Bridge - I saw that blog.teamtreehouse.com is hosted using WordPress - what plugin does Treehouse use for JSON ?
Thanks in advance for the answer!
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest TeacherWe use the JSON API plugin and then I created a custom function to get the recent post summary.
Brent lape
261 PointsAmit Bijlani - For the life of me...I can't figure out why nothing will output at the following address: http://www.newsms.fm/api/get_recent_summary/
I can get an output with : http://www.newsms.fm/api/get_posts/
But that includes HTML tags in the excerpt and doesn't grab the author the same was as from your tutorial. I've installed the JSON API plugin and incorporated the strip of code that you guys had at GitHub...but am at a complete loss right now. Hopefully someone has something?
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest TeacherThere are might be a runtime error which is not being displayed because by default Wordpress does not display error messages. To change that add the following lines to your wp-config.php:
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY',true);
@ini_set('display_errors',1);
Adeyemi Lawrence
2,683 PointsAmit Bijlani I am wondering if i can implement this on my localhost, I have this url: http://localhost:8888/myblog/api/get_recent_summary/ but then I get this 404 error, file not found on this server. Does this only work on a hosted services? Thanks