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30+ Free WordPress Plugins Using The WPREST API

In this article i am going to list 30 free WordPress Plugins using WP REST API I will also

list some resources to learn more about WP REST API Recently i have also published a

blog post about 30 Free Most Popular WordPress plugins 2015

Note At the time of publishing 26 plugins were listed in this article i have added few

more plugins later

What Is WP REST API

According to WP REST API github page WordPress is moving towards becoming a

fully-fledged application framework and as a WordPres developers we need new APIs

WP-API project was born to create an easy-to-use easy-to-understand and well-tested

framework for creating these APIs plus creating APIs for core

WP-API plugin provides an easy to use REST API available via HTTP As a WordPress

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developer you can grab your sitersquos data in simple JSON format including users posts

taxonomies and more This plugin also makes it simple and easy to retrieve or update

data sending a HTTP request

Sarah Gooding published a blog post about WordPress Plugins using WP REST API in

her article she has listed that WordPressorg Has Fewer Than 20 WordPress Plugins

Using the WP REST API (Plugins identified by Mika Epstein) in Core

I decided to write a short description of all the plugins using WP REST API I have also

found and added few more plugin in this list

Popular And New WordPress Plugins Using WP RESTAPI

1 Custom Contact Forms

Contact forms are one of the most important part of any website Custom Contact

Forms allows you to build beautiful custom forms and manage submissions the

WordPress way You can view live previews of your forms while you build them

Custom Contact Forms is most popular plugin which uses WP REST API Taylor Lovett

author of Custom Contact Forms believes that itrsquos important to get REST API-powered

plugins into the hands of users despite the support challenges of public distribution

WPtavern recently posted that Custom Contact Forms has just passed one million

downloads after nearly six years in the WordPress Plugin Directory

Active Installs 70000+

Total Downloads 1+ million

Developer Taylor Lovett

2 Maps By Storelocator Plus

You can use this free plugins to add a location finder or directory to your WordPress

website quickly and easily Many premium add-on are also available

The base plugin available for free from the WordPress Plugin Directory has all the

features you need to create a comprehensive store locator interface on your website

Active Installs 10000+

Developer Lance Cleveland and DeBAAT

3 WP REST API (Version 2)

This plugin requires WordPress 44 or higher WP REST API (Version 2) plugin provides an

easy to use REST API available via HTTP Grab your sitersquos data in simple JSON format

including users posts taxonomies and more Retrieving or updating data is as simple as

sending a HTTP request

Active Installs 9000+

Plugin Developer

4 ACF To WP-API

This free plugins Puts all Advance Custom Fields from posts pages custom post types

comments attachments and taxonomy terms into the WP-API output under the lsquoacfrsquo

key This plugin requires WordPress 390 or higher

Active Installs 1000+

Plugin Authors

5 WP API Menus

WP API Menus WordPress plugin extends the WordPress JSON REST API with new

routes for WordPress registered menus This plugin requires WordPress 36 or higher

The new routes available will be

menus list of every registered menu

menus data for a specific menu

menu-locations list of all registered theme locations

menu-locations data for menu in specified menu in theme location

You can read plugin decsription to learn more about this plugin

Active Installs 700+

Plugin Author

6 ACF To WP REST API

It was the original plugin created by Aires Gonccedilalves but now it is discontinued he has

developed version 2 of this plugin known as ACF to REST API

ACF to WP REST API was used to Put ACF data into the WP-REST-API ( WP-API |

WordPress JSON API ) You were able to customize the answer using filters but

remember this version was discontinued

Active Installs 400+

Developer Aires Gonccedilalves

This plugin requires WordPress 44 or higher WP REST API (Version 2) plugin provides an

easy to use REST API available via HTTP Grab your sitersquos data in simple JSON format

including users posts taxonomies and more Retrieving or updating data is as simple as

sending a HTTP request

Active Installs 9000+

Plugin Developer

4 ACF To WP-API

This free plugins Puts all Advance Custom Fields from posts pages custom post types

comments attachments and taxonomy terms into the WP-API output under the lsquoacfrsquo

key This plugin requires WordPress 390 or higher

Active Installs 1000+

Plugin Authors

5 WP API Menus

WP API Menus WordPress plugin extends the WordPress JSON REST API with new

routes for WordPress registered menus This plugin requires WordPress 36 or higher

The new routes available will be

menus list of every registered menu

menus data for a specific menu

menu-locations list of all registered theme locations

menu-locations data for menu in specified menu in theme location

You can read plugin decsription to learn more about this plugin

Active Installs 700+

Plugin Author

6 ACF To WP REST API

It was the original plugin created by Aires Gonccedilalves but now it is discontinued he has

developed version 2 of this plugin known as ACF to REST API

ACF to WP REST API was used to Put ACF data into the WP-REST-API ( WP-API |

WordPress JSON API ) You were able to customize the answer using filters but

remember this version was discontinued

Active Installs 400+

Developer Aires Gonccedilalves

menus list of every registered menu

menus data for a specific menu

menu-locations list of all registered theme locations

menu-locations data for menu in specified menu in theme location

You can read plugin decsription to learn more about this plugin

Active Installs 700+

Plugin Author

6 ACF To WP REST API

It was the original plugin created by Aires Gonccedilalves but now it is discontinued he has

developed version 2 of this plugin known as ACF to REST API

ACF to WP REST API was used to Put ACF data into the WP-REST-API ( WP-API |

WordPress JSON API ) You were able to customize the answer using filters but

remember this version was discontinued

Active Installs 400+

Developer Aires Gonccedilalves

Developer Aires Gonccedilalves

7 ACF To REST API

ACF to REST API is developed by Aires Gonccedilalves You can use this plugin to Edit Get

and Puts ACF data into the WordPress REST API ( WP-API | WP REST API ) To learn

more about this plugin you can [ACF to REST AP Github Page](visit

httpgithubcomairesvsgacf-to-rest-api) ACF to REST API version 206 requires

WordPress 43 of higher

Active Installs 200+

Developer Aires Gonccedilalves

8 JWT Authentication For WP REST API

JWT Authentication for WP REST API requires WordPress 42 or higher and Minimum

PHP version 530 According to plugin decsription JWT Authentication for WP REST API

plugin was conceived to extend the WP REST API V2 plugin features and of course was

built on top of it So to use the wp-api-jwt-auth you need to install and activate WP

REST API

Donrsquot forget to read the plugin description to learn more about plugin requirements

Active Installs 100+

Plugin Author tmeister

9 Tabulate

Tabulate is created by Sam Wilson This plugin requires WordPress 42 or higher

With this free plugin you can manage relational tabular data within the WordPress

admin area using the full power of your MySQL database Tabulate provides a simple

user-friendly interface to tables in your database

This plugin also allow you to import CSV data with the UI supporting column mapping

data validation and previewing prior to final import If an imported row has a value for

the Primary Key the existing row will be overwritten Data can be exported to CSV

including after filters have been applied

This plugin offers 10 different features you can read more about all features at plugin

page

Active Installs 100+

Active Installs 100+

Developer Sam Wilson

10 WP REST API Log ndash 100+

WP REST API Log is created by Pete Nelson it requires WordPress 40 or higher You can

use this plugin to log WP REST API requests and responses (for v2 of the API) This

plugin Includes

WordPress admin page to view and search log entries

API endpoint to access log entries via JSON

Filters to customize logging

Active Installs 100+

Developer Pete Nelson

11 Dashboard Directory Size

This is another plugin after WP REST API Log plugin created by Pete Nelson which uses

WP Rest API Dashboard Directory Size requires WordPress 40 or higher

Dashboard Directory Size plugin creates a dashboard widget that displays a list of

common WordPress directories and their sizes Handy if you need to keep an eye on the

size of your WordPress install Custom directories can also be configured

Active Installs 100+

Developer

12 WPML To WP API ndash 100+

WPML to WP API Allows you to request a language with your WP-API and WPML site

Plugin will allow you to fetch the WP-API (WP-JSON-API) call with a ldquolangrdquo variable It

will retrieve the right content from WPMLWP

This only works with WPML and WP-API installed Developer has tested only with the

latest version as of now WPML 3196 WP REST API 121

Active Installs 100+

developer ryuheixys

13 REST API Post Embeds

This plugin allows you to use the jeherve_post_embed shortcode to embed posts from

your site or othersrsquo anywhere on your site

When creating the shortcode you can use any of the 20 shortcode parameters to make

sure the embed will include the posts you want to display and will look the way you

want it to look

You can only pull posts from WordPresscom sites websites using the Jetpack plugin

with the JSON API module and websites using the REST API plugin by adding

wpapi=rdquotruerdquo to your shortcode parameters

Active Installs 50+

Developer Jeremy Herve

14 SearchWP API

This plugin is created by Josh Pollock and requires WordPress 431 or higher This plugin

run advanced searches via the WordPress REST API and SearchWP Technically this

plugin will work without SearchWP but queries will run through WP_Query

SearchWP API plugin requires WordPress REST API (WP-API) 20-beta9 or later

WordPress 44 or later and SearchWP Version 26 or later

Active Installs 20+

Developer Josh Pollock

15 Prayers ndash Less Than 10

If you are an organization You can use Prayers WordPress plugins to share update and

manage prayer requests via your website Prayers also provides JSON feeds for other

services to consume and requires the WP REST API

(httpswordpressorgpluginsrest-api) be installed and activated first You can

access the Feeds through the Prayer admin menu

This plugin requires WordPress 43 or higher

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

16 Invitations For Slack

Slack is a cloudshybased team collaboration tool coshyfounded by StewartButterfield Eric Costello Cal Henderson and Serguei Mourachov[1] Slackbegan as an internal tool used by their company Tiny Speck in the developmentof Glitch a now defunct online game WikiPedia

Slack is a real-time messaging archiving and search for modern teams Invitations for

Slack WordPress plugin requires WordPress 44 or higher This free plugin lets you build

a Slack community by allowing your visitors (or registered users) to invite themselves to

your Slack team To use this plugin Slack team and the teamrsquos access token is required

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

17 WP-Restify ndash Less Than 10

This free plugin has less than 10 active installs no description is available According to

WordPress plugin page this plugin is compatible up to WordPress 101 I think developer

was trying to test his plugin

Active Installs Less than 10

Author Mastersoftwaresolutions

18 REST Routes

This plugin is created by wp-making version 10 requires WordPress 301 or higher

If you want to extend the WP REST API without touching a single line of PHP That can

be easily done with Rest Routes plugin It lets you build fresh new endpoints with

custom filters and output All from inside of the WP dashboard side

A couple of available filters

Default Post Types

Default Taxonomies

Post Status

Post Parent

Post ID

Post Author

Ordering

Limit amp Offset

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

19 WP API Categories + Tags ndash 10+

WP API Categories + Tags plugin will allow the inclusion of a given posts categories and

WP API Categories + Tags plugin will allow the inclusion of a given posts categories and

tags in both reading from and writing to the WP REST API

Plugin developer judahnator has also included a few of his own endpoints (found at

wp-jsone_ctv1) ldquocategoriesrdquo and ldquotagsrdquo These endpoints will print out all categories

on that site and if you provide a post ID it will give you the categoriestags for that

post

Active Installs 10+

developer

20 SJF WP API Shortcode

This plugin offers developers a simple block of code for hello-worlding the WP API and

a shortcode to watch it in action [wp_api] Activate this plugin and use the shortcode

[wp_api] in a post or page It takes a few different arguments that are documented in

the plugin source code

the plugin source code

SJF WP API Shortcode requires WordPress 342 or higher

Active Installs 10+

Developer

21 WP REST API Sidebars ndash Less Than 10

This plugin created by njetskive and requires WordPress 44 or higher This is an

extension for the WP REST API that exposes endpoints for sidebars and widgets

According to plugin description this plugin is under heavy development and will receive

frequent feature updates (including documentation) so stay tuned and checkout the

github repo for the latest updates

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

22 WPRestApiExtensions ndash Less Than 10

This plugin extends the WP-REST API with custom read only endpoints From within the

plugin there is an option to deploy a cache in front of this REST API When you deploy

it be warned that the folder ldquorest-apirdquo will be created in the root of your webserver

WPRestApiExtensions requires WordPress 431 or higher

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

23 WP REST API Multilanguage (Over WMPL) ndash 100+

WP API Categories + Tags plugin will allow the inclusion of a given posts categories and

tags in both reading from and writing to the WP REST API

Plugin developer judahnator has also included a few of his own endpoints (found at

wp-jsone_ctv1) ldquocategoriesrdquo and ldquotagsrdquo These endpoints will print out all categories

on that site and if you provide a post ID it will give you the categoriestags for that

post

Active Installs 10+

developer

20 SJF WP API Shortcode

This plugin offers developers a simple block of code for hello-worlding the WP API and

a shortcode to watch it in action [wp_api] Activate this plugin and use the shortcode

[wp_api] in a post or page It takes a few different arguments that are documented in

the plugin source code

the plugin source code

SJF WP API Shortcode requires WordPress 342 or higher

Active Installs 10+

Developer

21 WP REST API Sidebars ndash Less Than 10

This plugin created by njetskive and requires WordPress 44 or higher This is an

extension for the WP REST API that exposes endpoints for sidebars and widgets

According to plugin description this plugin is under heavy development and will receive

frequent feature updates (including documentation) so stay tuned and checkout the

github repo for the latest updates

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

22 WPRestApiExtensions ndash Less Than 10

This plugin extends the WP-REST API with custom read only endpoints From within the

plugin there is an option to deploy a cache in front of this REST API When you deploy

it be warned that the folder ldquorest-apirdquo will be created in the root of your webserver

WPRestApiExtensions requires WordPress 431 or higher

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

23 WP REST API Multilanguage (Over WMPL) ndash 100+

the plugin source code

SJF WP API Shortcode requires WordPress 342 or higher

Active Installs 10+

Developer

21 WP REST API Sidebars ndash Less Than 10

This plugin created by njetskive and requires WordPress 44 or higher This is an

extension for the WP REST API that exposes endpoints for sidebars and widgets

According to plugin description this plugin is under heavy development and will receive

frequent feature updates (including documentation) so stay tuned and checkout the

github repo for the latest updates

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

22 WPRestApiExtensions ndash Less Than 10

This plugin extends the WP-REST API with custom read only endpoints From within the

plugin there is an option to deploy a cache in front of this REST API When you deploy

it be warned that the folder ldquorest-apirdquo will be created in the root of your webserver

WPRestApiExtensions requires WordPress 431 or higher

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

23 WP REST API Multilanguage (Over WMPL) ndash 100+

23 WP REST API Multilanguage (Over WMPL) ndash 100+Downloads

This Plugin will allow you to fetch the WP REST API call with a ldquolangrdquo variable It will

retrieve the right content from WPML WP REST API multilanguage (over WMPL)

requires WordPress 430 or higher and Tested with the latest version of WPML 327 and

WP REST API 20-beta4

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

24 WP API Shortcodes

This is a simple Shortcode Plugin to get WordPress data from WP REST API(Version2)

You can use [wpapi-posts] Shortcode This shortcode can get many data from WP REST

API (Version2)

This plugin requires WordPress 410 or higher

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

25 Ajax Post Comment

Ajax Post Comment plugin makes your websitersquos comment form ajax friendly It means

when user (including both subscriber normal viewer and admins too) post comment

your web page wonrsquot load again

According to plugin developer most themes supports this plugin but if your themersquos

class_form have not comment-form this plugin non supported

And this plugin only can use for Pure WordPress Comment form so its not able to be

used with like Jetpack comment form and othere originaloutside comment

systemform

This plugin requires WordPress 44 or higher and

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer Hinaloe

26 Rest API Widgets

This is simple WordPress Plugins using WP REST API It requires WordPress 431 or

higher You can use following Widgets

Comment form if comment is closed this widget is hidden

Comment List if comment is closed this widget is hidden

Post List Default recently 10 posts

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer [Okamoto Hidetaka](Okamoto Hidetaka)

Update

Today i found few more WordPress plugin Thermal that gives you the power of

WP_Query in a RESTful API So i am going to add all these plugins in the list as well I

will keep updating this article

27 Thermal API

used with like Jetpack comment form and othere originaloutside comment

systemform

This plugin requires WordPress 44 or higher and

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer Hinaloe

26 Rest API Widgets

This is simple WordPress Plugins using WP REST API It requires WordPress 431 or

higher You can use following Widgets

Comment form if comment is closed this widget is hidden

Comment List if comment is closed this widget is hidden

Post List Default recently 10 posts

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer [Okamoto Hidetaka](Okamoto Hidetaka)

Update

Today i found few more WordPress plugin Thermal that gives you the power of

WP_Query in a RESTful API So i am going to add all these plugins in the list as well I

will keep updating this article

27 Thermal API

Thermal is the WordPress plugin that gives you the power of WP_Query in a RESTful

API Thermal supports client-based decisions that when combined with a responsive

design framework allow for a truly responsive application leveraging a WordPress

content source

This plugin requires PHP gt= 530 and WordPress 36 of higher This plugin was updated

almost a year ago and compatible up to WordPress 4110 but you can give it a try

Active Installs 500+

Developer

28 Adobe Lightroom To WordPress With Envira Gallery

Envira Galleryrsquos Adobe Lightroom Addon was launched last week utilizes the REST API

This is another product by Syed Balkhi founder of most popular website to learn

This is another product by Syed Balkhi founder of most popular website to learn

WordPress wpbeginnercom

Introducing Adobe Lightroom to WordPress withEnvira GalleryCan you connect Adobe Lightroom with Envira Gallery This was among the topfeature requests that we got from our users After the redesign and launch of 6 newaddons our team went to work with a single mission allow users to upload photosfrom Adobe Lightroom to WordPress Today Irsquom extremely proud to announce hellipContinue reading

This is another product by Syed Balkhi founder of most popular website to learn

WordPress wpbeginnercom

Introducing Adobe Lightroom to WordPress withEnvira GalleryCan you connect Adobe Lightroom with Envira Gallery This was among the topfeature requests that we got from our users After the redesign and launch of 6 newaddons our team went to work with a single mission allow users to upload photosfrom Adobe Lightroom to WordPress Today Irsquom extremely proud to announce hellipContinue reading

6 Envira Gallery

Syed Balkhi commented on Sarahrsquos post at wptavern that itrsquos a premium addon the

REST API was essential to allow users to create WordPress galleries straight from Adobe

Lightroom and keep that in sync

Adobe Lightroom to WordPress with Envira Gallery add on allow users to upload photos

from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress It is a premium add on You can learn more about

this add on in Syed Balkhirsquos post Introducing Adobe Lightroom to WordPress with Envira

Gallery

Buy Adobe Lightroom to WordPress with Envira Gallery

Developer Syed Balkhi amp Team

29 Application Passwords

According to application-passwords and hugh use it and are both in the repo

[Application Passwords(httpswordpressorgpluginsapplication-passwords) A

feature plugin for core to provide Application Passwords This plugin requires

WordPress 44 or higher

Active Installs Less than 10

Jetpack will use it in the 40 release in a couple months (missed 39 because of timing)

30 Hugh

Hugh is a widget that will let visitors to your website change the color scheme and then

push out their new color scheme to everyone else who happens to be viewing your site

at that time

at that time

There is a history of recent colors and visitors can even get into lsquocolor battlesrsquo fighting

over who gets to determine the color scheme

This plugin requires WordPress 44 or higher

Active Installs Less than 10

Developer

31 WordPress Crosspost

WordPress Crosspost is one of my favorite pluginwhich lets you use WordPresscom as

a backup service for your self hosted WordPress blog Simply install WordPress Cross

post plugin activate it and connect this plugin to your WordPresscom account You can

select any of your wordpresscom blog for cross posting

Now whenever you will publish a blog post on your self hosted WordPress blog

WordPress Crosspost will create a post on your wordpresscom blog I love this free

plugin

WordPress Crosspost requires WordPress 31 or higher WordPress CrossPost is created

by Meitar Moscovitz an open source software developer and technology consultant

This plugin uses WordPresscomrsquos REST API to keep posts in sync when you edit your

WordPress post it updates your crossposted post

Active Installs Less than 300+

Developer Meitar Moscovitz

Final Words

Final Words

I have listed more than two dozens free WordPress Plugins using WP REST API I hope

this list will be helpful for you feel free to share this post with others If you know about

any other WordPress Plugins using WP REST API let me know i will add other plugin in

this list

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Ryuhei Yokokawa

February 29 2016 at 432 am

Thanks for the menton of my WPML to WPAPI plugn

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Its called Reach SEO (httpreachseoo) Its an outreach marketng system for

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