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David Welch

David is a full-stack developer with 10+ years of experience working with JavaScript technologies as a software developer and team lead. His experience includes Vue, Angular, Node.js, AWS, Jenkins, and more. He has primarily maintained an emphasis on front-end development during his career, but he is also skilled in cloud services. He enjoys leading and being a mentor to junior developers. Constantly progressing, he is also looking to stay up-to-date on the newest technologies.

Custom Backend and API in WordPress

Building a Custom Backend and API with WordPress

David Welch API Development, Articles, JavaScript, Programming, Tutorial Leave a Comment

You love frontend JavaScript frameworks, but your client wants a WordPress website… Don’t worry, you can do both! Let’s build a custom backend and API with WordPress!

WordPress provides an out-of-the-box CMS solution that can be customized very easily to fit many different types of projects. You’re not just stuck with blog posts and web pages, either.

In this post, I’m going to show you how you can use a very popular plugin called Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plus some custom code to create your own content and API endpoints for your fancy new frontend to consume while allowing your client to keep using what they love.