API Archives - Jeff Everhart

Adding Custom Routes to WordPress REST API

Over the last several years I’ve had the opportunity to do a lot more work within the WordPress ecosystem here at VCU. Writing themes and plugins for WordPress was what really got me started in web development, but after years of working in other frameworks like Node/Express and .NET MVC/C#, a lot of WordPress architectural […]

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Adding Custom Fields to WordPress JSON API

I’m working on building out some cool annotations tools for different types of audio, mostly music, which you can see an example of here. Although this is a good step, to really make this app/plugin/tool extensible and reusable, there needs to be some sort of back end layer to store some meta data about each […]

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Using Google Sheets and Google Apps Script to Work with APIs

One of the coolest things about working with Google Apps Script is the overall versatility of the Google Apps ecosystem. I’ve written pretty extensively about how to use Google Apps Script to do a lot of more business focused things, like send an email with Google Forms submissions, sending an attachment with Google Forms submission, […]

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The ABC’s of the Canvas REST API

This is a post to collect all of the presentation resources for my presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Group Instructing with Canvas (MAGIC) Conference. To get the most out of this experience, try installing these two Chrome extensions before we really get started: Postman-REST Client  We will use the Postman REST Client to make all of […]

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