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Free Plugin by JasmanXcrew v2.2.8

REST API Helper

This plugin help REST API for display featured media source, author, categories, and custom fields.

REST API Helper

The facts

Rating
5★ from 1
Active installs
500+
Price
Free
Last updated
2 Jan 2022
Added
Aug 2016
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
WP 5.3.23
Downloads
23,246

Our analysis

AI-assisted

REST API Helper is a WordPress plugin designed to assist with the REST API, specifically for displaying featured media sources, authors, categories, and custom fields. It is particularly tailored for use with the Ionic Mobile App Builder and the Ionic framework.

The plugin supports various functionalities, including product listing without WooCommerce API, fixing CORS issues, and enabling OneSignal push notifications. It also allows for custom field support and gallery management, making it suitable for developers looking to integrate mobile applications with WordPress sites.

Best for: This plugin is best for developers building mobile applications using the Ionic framework who need to integrate with WordPress.

What it does well

  • ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
  • ✓Compatible with wp-restapi2 and json-api
  • ✓Supports custom fields in metabox
  • ✓Fixes CORS and preflight CORS issues
  • ✓Enables OneSignal push notifications

Where it falls short

  • •Limited information on features and usage
  • •Directory score of 49/100 indicates potential shortcomings

Verdict

REST API Helper provides essential features for mobile app integration with WordPress, though its limited documentation may require further exploration by users.

From the developer

JasmanXcrew's own description of REST API Helper, lightly tidied.

This plugin help REST API for display featured media source, author, categories, and custom fields.
This plugin is made for Ionic Mobile App Builder, suitable used for ionic framework.
This plugin also support for display custom field in metabox and also make it allow crossorigin only for json files. Compatible with wp-restapi2 and json-api.

Features:
* Product listing without Woo API
* REST-API Auth Basic
* Fix CORS and Preflight CORS (Example Issue: Request header field ……. is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers in preflight response.)
* Woo ACF Gallery
* Gallery JSON Array or Object
* One Signal Push
* Custom Field Support
* Fix issue render VisualComposer ([vc_row]Hello World . . .[/vc_row])

Woocommerce

for enable Woo product and categories without authorization, add this code in wp-config.php

define("IMH_WOO", true);

You can changing custom field for gallery (default woo using _product_image_gallery metakey), add this line

define("IMH_WOO_ACF_GALLERY", 'images');

and for type data object or string (default string, separator with coma)

define("IMH_WOO_ACF_GALLERY_OBJECT", false);

OneSignal Sender

for enable oneSignal Sender add this code in wp-config.php

define("IMH_ONESIGNAL_PUSH", true);

then fix your app_id and app_key

define("IMH_ONESIGNAL_PUSH", false);
define("IMH_ONESIGNAL_PAGE_IN_APP", 'post_singles'); //this additional data (key: page and value: post_singles/post_id)
define("IMH_ONESIGNAL_APP_ID", '31ee45e2-c63d-4048-903a-89ca43f3afa2');
define("IMH_ONESIGNAL_APP_KEY", 'YzUzNmZkOTAtMmVlMC00OWIzLThlNGQtMzQyYzzyNmFhZjcw');

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Tagged as

industry Bookstore & Publishing
purpose API & Integrations Custom Fields & Post Types Photo Galleries Push Notifications Mobile & AMP
platform Advanced Custom Fields
feature REST API Mobile App / PWA
topic Rest-api Json Rest Authors Categories Category Featured Help Fields App

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