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Welcome to the WordPressPCL wiki!

Requirements

WordPressPCL requires:

• Wordpress 4.7+ https://wordpress.org/

To access protected routes, there are two authentication options:

• Authentication using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) (plugin required)
• Basic Authentication using Application Passwords

Supported JWT Plugins:

• JWT Auth plugin by Enrique Chavez (for requests requiring authentication) https://wordpress.org/plugins/jwt-authentication-for-wp-rest-api/
• JWT Auth plugin by Useful Team https://wordpress.org/plugins/jwt-auth/

Supported platforms

WordPressPCL is built on top of the new .NET Standard targeting netstandard 1.1 and 2.0 versions - therefore it should work on the following plaforms:

• .NET Framework 4.5 and newer
• .NET Core
• Universal Windows Platform (uap)
• Windows 8.0 and newer
• Windows Phone (WinRT, not Silverlight)
• Mono / Xamarin

Setup

The WordPressPCL API Wrapper is avaiable through nuget:

> Install-Package WordPressPCL

If you execute requests required authentication you must install JWT Auth plugin and configure it. You must enable Auth Headers and defune your secret key More info https://wordpress.org/plugins/jwt-authentication-for-wp-rest-api/#description

Basic usage

using WordPressPCL;

// Initialize
var client = new WordPressClient("http://demo.wp-api.org/wp-json/");

//Auth
client.Auth.UseBearerAuth(JWTPlugin.JWTAuthByEnriqueChavez);
await client.Auth.RequestJWTokenAsync("username", "password");
var isValidToken = await client.IsValidJWTokenAsync();

// Get All Posts
var posts = await client.Posts.GetAll();