Introduction to the GraphQL API for WordPress

Presented by Leonardo Losoviz

The GraphQL API for WordPress enables to access the WordPress site data using GraphQL. It has been designed for security, speed and ease of use:

Create multiple endpoints for different applications (website, mobile app, etc)
Configure who can access the data through Access Control Lists (user being logged-in or not, having certain role or capability, custom rules)
Publish persisted queries exposing a predefined set of data, provide inputs through URL params
Cache the response via native HTTP caching
Code and publish the query right from within the WordPress editor
In other words, the plugin combines the ease of use of WordPress for creating and publishing the queries, the great experience from GraphQL for querying the data, and the security and speed from REST.

The plugin will be released on early May. This presentation is the avant release for the plugin. We will explore the features of this new plugin, demoing how to create custom endpoints and persisted queries, how to set-up Access Control Lists on a field by field basis, and how to configure HTTP caching.

The GraphQL API for WordPress is based on GraphQL by PoP, the CMS-agnostic GraphQL server for PHP.

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