Authentication: OAuth
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Description
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- 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:
- Beginner WordPress developer
- Modules 1 - 8
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
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- 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