Co-author Plus JSON API Plugin

In short, when using the JSON API plugin with Co-author Plus, the default output from the JSON API doesn’t pick up on additional authors for a post.

It doesn’t pick up the additional authors because Co-Authors Plus is actually storing the byline information as taxonomy terms.

I’m not terribly familiar with the JSON API plugin but it doesn’t look like there’s a way to easily filter the response object. You can define your own controller though, or you could modify the requests you’re making to also request the ‘author’ terms associated with the post.

You can define your own controller though, or you could modify the requests you’re making to also request the ‘author’ terms associated with the post.

That’s a helpful pointer, Daniel, many thanks.

Phillip.

Yep. If you’re not using much of the functionality the JSON API plugin offers, you might scrapping it altogether and creating your own JSON endpoints.

Hey there Daniel,

Wondering if you can give this hack a look and let me know if you see anything terribly wrong with it: https://gist.github.com/fe484c0daeeb9933b21e

Seems to do the trick nicely in terms allowing for the co-authors if they’re in use. That said, I’m pretty sure how I’m doing this is not the “WordPress Way,” and I suspect you might have a better suggestion.

Thanks in advance,

Phillip.

Yep, that looks like it would work. The only hesitation I’d have is that you’re modding the core of the plugin, which means any automatic updates would blow your changes away.

It doesn’t look like the plugin has been updated in a year though, so you should be fine. I’d just make sure that you document the changes in a place that the next person to come along to your project has access to.

Hey there Daniel,

Many thanks for the double-check. I appreciate it.

Indeed, I was also looking at the plug-in from the perspective of it not getting m/any updates in the near future.

Phillip.