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Plugin Description
If you wish to ‘Create comments’ using REST API, without exposing Administrator credentials to the Front-End application, you are at the right place. Since WordPress 4.7, REST API was natively included in WordPress.
In order to ‘Create a comment’ , the authentication for a user with ‘Administrator’ role is required. While this is a deliberately done for security reasons, such implementation makes it very hard for Front-End applications to implement a simple ‘Post Comment’ or ‘Reply Comment’ function.
This plugin fulfils such requirement by extending the existing WordPress REST API endpoints.
Requirements:
Minimum PHP version: 7.0
Minimum WordPress version: 4.7.0
Installation:
Download the plugin form wordpress marketplace install it like any other WordPress plugin.
After the installation activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Endpoint:
When this plugin is installed one new endpoint is added to the wp/v2 namespace.
Endpoint
HTTP Verb
Permalinks
*/wp-json/wp/v2/comments/create
POST
enabled
*/?rest_route=/wp/v2/comments/create
POST
disabled
Usage:
- Create a Comment
To create a comment using REST API, send a POST request to:
/wp-json/wp/v2/comments/create – if permalinks is enabled on your wordpress website.
Or
/?rest_route=/wp/v2/comments/create if permalinks is not enabled on your wordpress website.
With a JSON body, as shown bellow:
`Json
{
“post”: “Post ID”,
“author_name”: “Comment Author’s name”,
“author_name”: “Comment Author’s email”,
“content”: “Comment content”
}
`
The content may also be send as an object:
`Json
{
“post”: “Post ID”,
“author_name”: “Comment Author’s name”,
“author_name”: “Comment Author’s email”,
“content”: {
“raw”:”Comment content”
}
}
`
Set header to:
`
content-type: application/json
`
If successful, you should receive a response with the data of the created comment:
`Json
{
“id”: “[comment id]”,
“status”: “[comment status]”,
“message”:”[server response message]”
}
`
In response header the status code should be:
`Http
HTTP 201 Created
`
- Reply a comment
To reply a comment you just need to add the field parent for the parent comment to the JSON body
`Json
{
“post”: “Post ID”,
“author_name”: “Comment Author’s name”,
“author_name”: “Comment Author’s email”,
“content”: “Comment content”,
“parent”:”Comment parent ID”
}
`
Note: Ensure the parent is a comment id that belongs to the post informed in the field post. The comment parent post id must match the post id otherwise the following error will be shown:
`Json
{
“code”: “rest_post_mismatch_parent_post_id”,
“message”: “Post ID and Parent post ID does not match”,
“data”: {
“status”: 400
}
}
`
Contact
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Screenshots
This Screenshot is a sample REST API POST request using REST API Comment.
