WordPress.org API's is a set of API's on WordPress.org web site.
Secret Key
Secret key generator for wp-config.php.
Stats
Stats about the systems websites are running WordPress on.
Version Check
WordPress Version Checker.
Version Stability
Check if a version of WordPress is latest, outdated, or insecure.
Credits
Details about the various individuals who contribute to the WordPress code base. Used in Credits Screen. Available since WordPress 3.2, Locale may optionally be specified.
Translations
Available translations.
Fallbacks are also supported, for example:
Themes
v1.0 will return its content in PHP serialized form, v1.1 as a JSON object.
Parameter:
- $action
- (string) (required) Possible actions are:
- query_themes - A a list of themes.
- theme_information - Information about a specific theme.
- hot_tags - List of the most popular theme tags.
- feature_list - List of valid theme tags.
- Default: None
- $request
- (array) (optional) Arguments to alter the output of this endpoint.
- Default: empty
The arguments outlined for each endpoint should be passed in the $request parameter.
List of Themes
Returns a list of themes with their associated information, as well as meta information about the request. It provides multiple filters to search: text string, feature tags, author, and provides some capability for sorting (popular, featured, updated, new).
- $action
- (string) (required) query_themes
- Default: None
Example query: api.wordpress.org/themes/info/1.1/?action=query_themes&request[tag]=sticky-post&request[tag]=two-columns&request[search]=food&request[page]=2
Arguments:
- search
- (string) (optional) Textual search, using a free-form string.
- Default: null
- tag
- (array|string) (optional) Filter to return themes with a specified tag or set of tags.
- Default: null
- theme
- (string) (optional) Slug of a specific theme to return.
- Default: null
- author
- (string) (optional) WordPress.org username of the author. Filter to return only themes authored by them.
- Default: null
- page
- (int) (optional) The page currently returned.
- Default: 1
- per_page
- (int) (optional) Amount of themes returned per page.
- Default: null (24)
- browse
- (string) (optional) Predefined query ordering. Possible values are:
- (no value) - Query all themes by default order.
- popular - Themes ordered by popularity.
- featured - Set of featured themes.
- updated - Recently updated themes.
- new - Latest themes.
- Default: null
- fields
- (array) (optional) Theme information to return. Associative array with field names as keys and a boolean whether to include that field or not, as value.
- Default:
description - false
sections - false
rating - true
ratings - false
downloaded - true
download_link - true
last_updated - true
homepage - true
tags - true
template - true
parent - false
versions - false
screenshot_url - true
active_installs - false
Theme Information
Returns information about a specific theme.
- $action
- (string) (required) theme_information
- Default: None
Arguments:
- slug
- (string) (null) Slug of a specific theme to return.
- Default: None
- fields
- (array) (optional) Theme information to return. Associative array with field names as keys and a boolean whether to include that field or not, as value.
- Default:
description - false
sections - false
rating - true
ratings - false
downloaded - true
download_link - true
last_updated - true
homepage - true
tags - true
template - true
parent - false
versions - false
screenshot_url - true
active_installs - false
Popular theme tags
Returns a list of the most popular theme tags.
- $action
- (string) (required) hot_tags
- Default: None
Arguments:
- number
- (int) (optional) The amount of tags to return.
- Default: -1 (all tags)
Feature list
Returns a list of valid theme tags.
- $action
- (string) (required) feature_list
- Default: None
Update Check
Plugins
1.1
Note: Some docs on this api can be found here: http://dd32.id.au/projects/wordpressorg-plugin-information-api-docs/
Examples:
Basic Example of getting total download count of a plugin - http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/plugins/communicating-with-the-wordpress-org-plugin-api/
A blog post about how to use the WordPress.org API to search for plugins and themes -
https://orbisius.com/blog/use-wordpress-org-api-search-plugins-themes-p4477
Popular Import Plugin
List of popular import plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory used by Tools → Import Screen.
Checksum
Returns a JSON encoded array of file MD5 checksums for a given WordPress release / locale. Although english is the default, it's suggested to pass it for 100% compatibility with core.
Note that MD5 hashes are [not cryptographically secure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#Security) and should not be relied on to detect malicious changes to WordPress files.
Editor
Used by the theme and plugin editor to get a reference to documentation generated with phpDocumentor.
Events
Upcoming WordCamps and meetup events, filterable by location.
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