A Look at the WordPress HTTP API

In this four part series, we're going to take a look at what it means to make a remote GET request, and in the second part, we're going to take a look at a practical approach to doing so.

Posts in this series

A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: A Brief Survey of wp_remote_get
When it comes to making remote requests within the context of web sites, web applications, and even WordPress-based projects, the model that we follow is...
Tom McFarlin
16 Jul 2013
Code
A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: A Practical Example of wp_remote_get
In the last article in this series, we took a look at the PHP functions that are available for making remote requests. Specifically, we reviewed: ...
Tom McFarlin
19 Jul 2013
Code
A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: wp_remote_get - the Response
In this series, we've been taking a look at the wp_remote_get WordPress HTTP API function in order to understand how it works, how we can use it, and the...
Tom McFarlin
24 Jul 2013
Code
A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: wp_remote_get - the Arguments
In the last two posts, we've taken a brief survey of the wp_remote_get function as well as a practical implementation of how to use it. Before moving on...
Tom McFarlin
26 Jul 2013
Code
A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: A Brief Survey of wp_remote_post
In the first series on the WordPress HTTP API, we took a look at wp_remote_get. Specifically, we took a look at the following aspects of the API: A...
Tom McFarlin
8 Aug 2013
Code
A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: A Practical Example of wp_remote_post
In the previous article, we reviewed the previous articles regarding GET requests, the native PHP facilities for making requests, and reviewed WordPress...
Tom McFarlin
16 Aug 2013
Code
A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: Saving Data From wp_remote_post
In the previous post in the series, we began working on a small plugin that provided a practical example of wp_remote_post. The thing is, the example was...
Tom McFarlin
20 Aug 2013
Code