WordPress 5 Cookbook

How to do it...

Follow these steps to retrieve and display the site's data using the REST API:

1. Open the wpcookbookchapter7.php file using the code editor.
2. Add the following code at the end of the file to create a shortcode for retrieving posts in the database using a REST API request. Replace www.yoursite.com with the URL of your site:

add_shortcode('wpccp_rest_api_post_list','wpccp_chapter7_rest_api_post_list');function wpccp_chapter7_rest_api_post_list(){  $request = wp_remote_get(   'http://www.yoursite.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?_fields=author,   id,excerpt,title,link' );  if( is_wp_error( $request ) ) {    return false;   }  $body = wp_remote_retrieve_body( $request );  $data = json_decode( $body ); // Step 3 code should be placed after this line ...