----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7(a)gmail.com>
To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 12:23:07 PM
Subject: [Marketing] Re: [commops] Re: FedoraMag Wordpress Blog API
On 06/30/2016 01:33 AM, Arvind Chembarpu wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7(a)gmail.com>
>> To: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
>> Cc: "Sudhir D" <sdharane(a)redhat.com>, "Fedora + Community +
Operations =
>> Fedora CommOps"
>> <commops(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 10:05:24 PM
>> Subject: [commops] Re: FedoraMag Wordpress Blog API
>>
>> On 06/29/2016 04:06 AM, Arvind Chembarpu wrote:
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm Arvind, and I'm working as a Fedora QA Intern, with Sudhir D
(Fedora
>>> QA
>>> Manager) at Red Hat Bangalore.
>>>
>>> I was working on a hub to view all Fedora news in a seamless interface,
>>> and
>>> I was hoping to use the default Wordpress API to accomplish this.
>>> However, it looks like the API has been disabled manually, since all the
>>> endpoints under `http://fedoramagazine.org/wp-json/v2/` and
>>> `http://fedoramagazine.org/wp-json/` are returning 404 error statuses.
>>> Would it be possible to re-enable these? If not, could you point me
>>> towards
>>> another way to obtain FedoraMagazine post links?
>
>> I think discussion about the API came up before, but I don't remember
>> what came of it or where it went. The best points of contact about this
>> would probably be Patrick Uiterwijk (puiterwijk on freenode IRC) or Paul
>> Frields (stickster on freenode IRC). I know Paul is at Summit this week,
>> so you might not hear from him this week, but you can probably find
>> Patrick on IRC, and he could tell you more about whether this is
>> feasible or not.
>
> Great, will contact both Patrick and Paul on IRC about this.
> Since this reply is on the mailing list anyway, if anyone else has an idea
> about the WP API, please do let me know. :)
>
> Since the `wp-json` API is a default Wordpress plugin, so anyone with
> access to the Fedora Magazine WP-admin should be able to re-enable it.
> Essentially, I am hoping for a way to just fetch Fedora Magazine post
> links, banner images, and maybe article summaries. This is all provided by
> the `wp-json` API.
> This isn't meant to drive any traffic away from the Blog, since clicking on
> any links will still lead to the actual webpage.
> Rather I want to just to give users a sort of feed reader, from where they
> can access the Magazine and other resources, at once.
>
This might also be useful for other projects / teams too (e.g. Fedora
Hubs). I have admin privileges on the Magazine, but I'm mostly looking
for a +1 from one of the Infrastructure team members who may know more
about why the API is disabled or if there are any issues with it being
re-enabled.
Ok, cool. Can someone from the Infra team pitch in on this? Let's get the API
re-enabled. :D
Cheers,
Arvind Chembarpu
[achembar(a)redhat.com]