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Authentication: OAuth

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Description

Details

  • Content type (Online Workshop, Lesson, Course, Tutorial, or Lesson Plan): Lesson
  • Content title: Authentication using OAuth
  • Topic description: How to use OAuth for WP REST API authentication instead of Application Passwords
  • Audience (User, Developer, Designer, Contributor, etc.): Developer
  • Experience Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Any): Intermediate

Prerequisites

It is assumed that the learner has already completed the following lessons:

Learning Objectives

  • Define what OAuth is, and why you might want to use them
  • Implement OAuth authentication using one of the available plugins.

Related Resources and Other Notes

Automation Code

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Review the lesson brief, prerequisites, and learning objectives in the issue, then examine the linked rest-api-oauth1 plugin and the WordPress REST API authentication context. Done means a lesson for developers explains OAuth and demonstrates implementation using an available plugin.

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Assessment

Tech stack
wordpress
Domain
authentication, content, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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