# Remote service using Wordpress JSON REST API

**URL:** <https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/remote-service-using-wordpress-json-rest-api/983>\
**Category:** Connecting to Web Services\
**Created:** [April 8, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/remote-service-using-wordpress-json-rest-api/983 "2015-04-08T00:52:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![leogaggl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/leogaggl/32/251_2.png) [@leogaggl](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/leogaggl)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/remote-service-using-wordpress-json-rest-api/983/1 "2015-04-08T00:52:31Z")

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I was wondering if somebody has already been thinking about connecting Wordpress JSON REST API as an external service to DreamFactory ? I know that there is some Basic Auth & JSON API available as a WP plugin, but the official WP REST API is using OAuth for authentication. Seems that would not work with the current remote

> **[REST API Resources](https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/)**
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> Welcome to the WordPress.com REST API. Below, you’ll find a full listing of all the available endpoints. As we add more endpoints, they will be automatically documented here and available thr…

  

> **[OAuth2 Authentication](https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/oauth2/)**
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> OAuth2 is a protocol that allows applications to interact with blogs on WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress sites running Jetpack. The primary goal of OAuth is to allow developers to interact w…

Would allow some great mobile usecases …

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**Author:** ![benbusse](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/benbusse/32/4_2.png) [@benbusse](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/benbusse)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/remote-service-using-wordpress-json-rest-api/983/2 "2015-04-08T02:39:51Z")

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Vikram Vaswani just wrote up a nice tutorial on using the WP REST API plugin with DreamFactory. It’s on ProgrammableWeb here [http://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-to-create-mobile-blogging-app-dreamfactory-wordpress-and-mailgun/how-to/2015/04/03](http://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-to-create-mobile-blogging-app-dreamfactory-wordpress-and-mailgun/how-to/2015/04/03)

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**Author:** ![benbusse](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/benbusse/32/4_2.png) [@benbusse](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/benbusse)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/remote-service-using-wordpress-json-rest-api/983/3 "2015-04-08T02:44:34Z")

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Also FYI, OAuth 1.0 and 2.0 will be well supported in the version 2.0 release of DreamFactory coming out in June timeframe.

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**Author:** ![leogaggl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/leogaggl/32/251_2.png) [@leogaggl](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/leogaggl)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/remote-service-using-wordpress-json-rest-api/983/4 "2015-04-08T03:14:42Z")

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Thanks Ben !

Appreciate the quick response. I am aware of Vikram’s article. Unfortunately that will work only on self-hosted WP sites as it requires a custom REST API plugin.

The nice thing about the [WP.com](http://WP.com) version it works for both WP hosted as well as self-hosted. Good to hear about the V2.0 roadmap. Very much looking forward to this.

Thanks for the excellent work. It is a very nice product ! And Kudos for making it available under both OpenSource & Enterprise !