[VIDEO] Enable JWT authentication for the Wordpress REST API

Adrian Oprea
1 min readOct 12, 2017

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This video shows you how to enable JWT authentication for the Wordpress REST API. You will first create a kickass Wordpress development using the official MySQL and Wordpress images from the Docker hub and then go through the whole plugin setup and testing process.

Below are the links to everything used in this video

Info about JSON Web Tokens and the JWT Authentication Plugin

https://jwt.io/
https://enriquechavez.co/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/jwt-authentication-for-wp-rest-api/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/jwt/

How to access the Wordpress Rest API (permalink structure setup)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44814644/wordpress-4-8-on-docker-rest-api-not-accessible
https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/extending-the-rest-api/routes-and-endpoints/

The Docker images

https://hub.docker.com/_/wordpress/
https://hub.docker.com/_/mysql/

Learn all about the Docker commands in the video:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/logs/
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/ps/

Feel free to ask questions and I will try to answer them to the best of my knowledge!

As I said, I’m @oprearocks on everything. Get in touch!

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Adrian Oprea
Adrian Oprea

Written by Adrian Oprea

Founder & CEO of WeRemote.EU. Remote work enthusiast. Bookworm.

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