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A Comprehensive Guide to Using the WordPress API: Authentication and Post Scheduling

Bhavesh Ramburn — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:21:59 +0000

In this guide, we’ll explore how to authenticate with the WordPress API and schedule posts for specific publication times. These steps will help you manage your WordPress content programmatically and securely.

Authentication with WordPress API

To interact with the WordPress API securely, you need to authenticate your requests. Let's delve into two common approaches:

Application Passwords

Application Passwords is a built-in feature in WordPress that allows you to generate secure passwords for API access without compromising your main account password.

Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard.
Navigate to Users → Profile.
Scroll down to the "Application Passwords" section.
Enter a name for the application (e.g., "API Access").
Click "Add New Application Password".
Copy the generated password (you won't be able to see it again).

To use the Application Password:

import requests

url = "https://your-wordpress-site.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts"
username = "your_username"
app_password = "your_application_password"

headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.get(url, auth=(username, app_password), headers=headers)

Basic Authentication Plugin

For older WordPress versions or if you prefer an alternative method:

Download the Basic Authentication plugin from the WordPress.org GitHub repository.
Install and activate the plugin on your WordPress site.
Use your regular WordPress username and password for authentication.

import requests

url = "https://your-wordpress-site.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts"
username = "your_username"
password = "your_password"

headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.get(url, auth=(username, password), headers=headers)

Publishing Posts at Specific Times

To schedule posts for publication at specific times, use the date parameter when creating or updating a post. Here’s how:

Creating a Scheduled Post

import requests
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

url = "https://your-wordpress-site.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts"
username = "your_username"
app_password = "your_application_password"

# Schedule the post for 2 days from now at 10:00 AM
scheduled_time = datetime.now() + timedelta(days=2)
scheduled_time = scheduled_time.replace(hour=10, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
scheduled_time_str = scheduled_time.isoformat()

data = {
    "title": "Scheduled Post Example",
    "content": "This is the content of the scheduled post.",
    "status": "future",
    "date": scheduled_time_str
}

response = requests.post(url, auth=(username, app_password), json=data)

if response.status_code == 201:
    print("Post scheduled successfully!")
else:
    print("Error scheduling post:", response.text)

Updating an Existing Post's Schedule

To reschedule an existing post, you’ll need its post ID:

import requests
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

post_id = 123  # Replace with the actual post ID
url = f"https://your-wordpress-site.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/{post_id}"
username = "your_username"
app_password = "your_application_password"

# Reschedule the post for 1 week from now at 2:00 PM
new_scheduled_time = datetime.now() + timedelta(weeks=1)
new_scheduled_time = new_scheduled_time.replace(hour=14, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
new_scheduled_time_str = new_scheduled_time.isoformat()

data = {
    "status": "future",
    "date": new_scheduled_time_str
}

response = requests.post(url, auth=(username, app_password), json=data)

if response.status_code == 200:
    print("Post rescheduled successfully!")
else:
    print("Error rescheduling post:", response.text)

Important Notes

Ensure your WordPress site is using HTTPS for secure communication.
Keep your Application Password or regular password secure and never share it.
The date parameter should be in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS).
The WordPress API uses UTC time, so adjust your scheduled times accordingly.
Set the post status to "future" for scheduled posts.
You can also use the date_gmt parameter to specify the time in GMT/UTC directly.

By following this guide, you should be able to authenticate with the WordPress API and schedule posts for specific publication times programmatically.

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Querying parent from child table in EntityFramework

Bhavesh Ramburn — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:22:07 +0000

I was looking at getting childrens of a parent table by querying the table only.
To give you a context of the data I had the following models:


// this is the parent class
class Projects {
public Guid Id;
public List<Comments> comments;
... //other fields
}

// this is the child 1-M
class Comments{
public Guid Id;
public Project project;
... //other fields
}

Once I've injected the dbcontext class, I start querying the database the following way with AsQueryable() if you don't put this you won't be able to call up the search by id.

...
var projectId = "<<guid>>"

List<Comment> entity = await _context.Comments.AsQueryable().Where(it => it.Project.Id == projectId ).ToListAsync();
...

doing this, will allow you to query the child's parent's object and return a list

Hope this was helpful

Windows Server 2019 and AMD Radeon RX 6600

Bhavesh Ramburn — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 20:46:27 +0000

I was having some issues installing and updating the AMD Radeon RX 6600 driver on my windows server 2019. I was trying autoinstallers for drivers and everything and it was not working.

I was using a tool called easydriver to find and update my drivers. Those were not working very well as they kept using the latest RX 6600 drivers.

The steps:

To get it working I downloaded the windows 10-11 from https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-pro-win-21-q4, an older version for it to work.
Once downloaded you need to run it, but it will fail.
What you'll then have to do is go to your driver manager, then go to your display driver, right click and click update.
Select manually find the driver folder, then go to the folder that was newly created under C:\AMD\ this will most likely install properly.
Restart your computer and check if the 3D graphic card is working.

Angular Testing with @Input

Bhavesh Ramburn — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 21:03:14 +0000

I was struggling to test nested with observables and testing emits.
I was looking at a few posts on medium, however it didn't cut it when I needed it to work.
A simple fix that I found on stack overflow helped a lot.
I didn't even use a textcomponentfixture class. It was a bit too complicated.

Following the guide on Stackoverflow and using SpyOn emits we can achieve a good test.

So the first thing you want to do is setup the test and a SpyObj inside your beforeAll method in your test suite.

let spyEmit: jasmine.SpyObj<EventEmitter<Project>>

beforeAll(() => {
            spyEmit = jasmine.createSpyObj('EventEmitter', ['emit']);
        });

Make sure you have the spyEmit in your describe.

Then you have to make sure you set the default EventEmitter in your beforeEach

So before you run your fixture.detectChanges(); make sure you set you fake EventEmitter.

...
 fixture = TestBed.createComponent(ProjectFormComponent);
            component = fixture.componentInstance;
            component.projectDataReturn = spyEmit;
...

This is so that it reflects this code in the parent component:

...
 @Output() projectDataReturn = new EventEmitter<Project>();
 ...

Now when you run your code can use a fake spy

  ...
  spyEmit.emit.and.callFake((project) => {
                expect(project).toEqual({...fakeProject, id: "old1"});
            });
   ...

This allows you to capture the call and check it for each test units.

Of course you can run expect(spyEmit.emit).toHaveBeenCalled(); to check if the fake method has been called.

.net framework

Bhavesh Ramburn — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 16:20:56 +0000

Just revisiting the .net framework; it is a framework that allows you to build software applications across different systems, including mobile, desktop and web.

supports c#, f#, as well as c++.
but the .net core framework does the same thing but is opensource but does not support c++ yet.

angular and asp.net

Bhavesh Ramburn — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:46:07 +0000

today on my log i've been looking at angular and asp.net core 6. I am working through the book tutorials.
I learnt about rsjx, used it once, its not bad.

asp.net journey

Bhavesh Ramburn — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 18:19:19 +0000

This is dev log for todya, I've taken a step back and taken some time to reflect on what I need to learn, I'm rushing things again, so I'm taking it easy.
After learning Dependency injection and DDD, (well... still learning DDD) I'm working through c# and asp.net again. I've picked up this book ASP.NET core 6 and angular it is pretty good and intermediate, just enough to get someone who knows programming to step into this world.
For the last 2 months I was stuck on the concept of DI and DDD. It was all strange, but I pushed on, now I've collected a grasps of it and a bit more on the builder pattern.
I can see the use of singleton pattern and scoped classes. Its interesting that these patterns were nto apparent to me at first.

once I go through this book to some extent I should be ok to get started on my project.

Two years ago when i tried ASp.net I was all over the place, I remember I was completely lost as to what was going on. Now with a focus to get into enterprise, I feel a bit comfortable and focused on my career path.
Moving away from my current role into this industry is a dream. I love programming since the age of 12, albeit I was doing it in php and didn't know any better because that was the only thing available for free and I was able to work with it.

So in the last two days I've picked up:

Secret Manger link and the use of it to store credentials
re-read up on OAuth2 link

I'm currently going through Angular and asp.net now so it should get better in the next few weeks.

asp.net .net 6 just a view so far

Bhavesh Ramburn — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 21:14:15 +0000

It's been a tough couple of weeks recently, I've been reflecting and reading a lot about asp.net.
Using some of online guides, video tutorial I've finally got my head around it...somewhat. It is more difficult than laravel for sure... but looking at how much this clean architecture template has helped a lot at finding some cool stuff.
Before I got to this I've had to dig myself into books to cover the following:

Dependeny injection
Mediator
reviewing Builder Pattern

Of course there were a few design patterns I've gone through, it seems that it has been helpful.

Some design patterns I've picked up and used in learning asp.net core

Singleton pattern
Guard Pattern
Observer Pattern

it is not easy to go get your head around it.
There is a lot of work, reading, testing and deleting files.

So far I think I need to build a small tutorial to get started with Clean Architecture from Jason Taylor to get people to understand as the current github repo doesn't have a wiki or good documentation to get newbies in ASp.net to get started.

Selecting Folders using QT5 QTFileDialog

Bhavesh Ramburn — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:07:45 +0000

Following the documentation here we see that it is pretty easy for us to select a folder and return a string of the selected file. This is the easiest way to collect folders and print the value into a textfield:

QString fileName = QFileDialog::getExistingDirectory(this, tr("Open Directory"),
                                                    QDir::currentPath(),
                                                    QFileDialog::ShowDirsOnly
                                                    | QFileDialog::DontResolveSymlinks);

    ui->textEdit->setText(fileName);

Install intel AX200 wireless WIFI 6 driver on Windows Server 2019

Bhavesh Ramburn — Sat, 29 May 2021 19:07:07 +0000

This is a quick guide on installing the AX200 Wireless Wifi 6 driver on Windows server.
I ran through a problem when installing the Wifi 6 drivers on my Windows server (standard edition) 2019. I downloaded the driver files directly from Intel and it was not installing because of this A service installation section in this inf is invalid error.

Download the Intel® PROSet/Wireless Software and Drivers for IT Admins from https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/18231/intel-proset-wireless-software-and-drivers-for-it-admins.html and unzip it on the server.
Open Powershell on Windows server 2019 and run the following command

Add-WindowsFeature -Name Wireless-Networking

Restart
Go into the Device Manager, click update the driver of the unknown device (normally the 2nd or 3rd unknown device)
Restart
Now you should see the Wifi panel on the bottom right hand corner.

Thanks to Ruben Mamo for the work around. :)