WordPress.org API's is a set of API's on WordPress.org web site.
Secret Key
Secret key generator for wp-config.php.
Stats
Stats about the systems websites are running WordPress on.
Version Check
WordPress Version Checker.
Version Stability
Check if a version of WordPress is latest, outdated, or insecure.
Credits
Details about the various individuals who contribute to the WordPress code base. Used in Credits Screen. Available since WordPress 3.2, Locale may optionally be specified.
Translations
Available translations.
Fallbacks are also supported, for example:
Themes
v1.0 will return its content in PHP serialized form, v1.1 and v.1.2 as JSON objects.
The major changes between 1.1 and 1.2 are:
- Only accepts GET requests
- The `request` keys can passed as parent keys
- Greater number of fields are included by default (See source-code below)
Note: You can find information about arguments and examples in the following blog articles:
The source-code behind this API is available here:
https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/theme-directory/class-themes-api.php
Parameter:
- $action
- (string) (required) Possible actions are:
- query_themes - A a list of themes.
- theme_information - Information about a specific theme.
- hot_tags - List of the most popular theme tags.
- feature_list - List of valid theme tags.
- Default: None
- $request
- (array) (optional) Arguments to alter the output of this endpoint.
- Default: empty
The arguments outlined for each endpoint should be passed in the $request parameter.
List of Themes
Returns a list of themes with their associated information, as well as meta information about the request. It provides multiple filters to search: text string, feature tags, author, and provides some capability for sorting (popular, featured, updated, new).
- $action
- (string) (required) query_themes
- Default: None
Example query: api.wordpress.org/themes/info/1.1/?action=query_themes&request[tag]=sticky-post&request[tag]=two-columns&request[search]=food&request[page]=2
Arguments:
- search
- (string) (optional) Textual search, using a free-form string.
- Default: null
- tag
- (string) (optional) Filter to return themes with a specified tag or set of tags (pass an array of string).
- Default: null
- theme
- (string) (optional) Slug of a specific theme to return.
- Default: null
- author
- (string) (optional) WordPress.org username of the author. Filter to return only themes authored by them.
- Default: null
- page
- (int) (optional) The page currently returned.
- Default: 1
- per_page
- (int) (optional) Amount of themes returned per page.
- Default: null (24)
- browse
- (string) (optional) Predefined query ordering. Possible values are:
- (no value) - Query all themes by default order.
- popular - Themes ordered by popularity.
- featured - Set of featured themes.
- updated - Recently updated themes.
- new - Latest themes.
- Default: null
- fields
- (array) (optional) Theme information to return. Associative array with field names as keys and a boolean whether to include that field or not, as value.
- Default:
description - false
sections - false
rating - true
ratings - false
downloaded - true
download_link - true
last_updated - true
homepage - true
tags - true
template - true
parent - false
versions - false
screenshot_url - true
active_installs - false
Theme Information
Returns information about a specific theme.
- $action
- (string) (required) theme_information
- Default: None
Arguments:
- slug
- (string) (null) Slug of a specific theme to return.
- Default: None
- fields
- (array) (optional) Theme information to return. Associative array with field names as keys and a boolean whether to include that field or not, as value.
- Default:
description - false
sections - false
rating - true
ratings - false
downloaded - true
download_link - true
last_updated - true
homepage - true
tags - true
template - true
parent - false
versions - false
screenshot_url - true
active_installs - false
Popular theme tags
Returns a list of the most popular theme tags.
- $action
- (string) (required) hot_tags
- Default: None
Arguments:
- number
- (int) (optional) The amount of tags to return.
- Default: -1 (all tags)
Feature list
Returns a list of valid theme tags.
- $action
- (string) (required) feature_list
- Default: None
Update Check
Plugins
1.1 & 1.2
The main difference is that 1.1 uses JSON by default, where as 1.0 used PHP Serialized by default.
The 1.2 Info endpoints only accepts GET requests, and includes a different set of default fields - as used by WordPress 5.0+.
Note: You can find information about arguments and examples in the following blog articles:
Block Patterns
Patterns from the Block Pattern Directory. Also used in Gutenberg's Inserter control.
Popular Import Plugin
List of popular import plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory used by Tools → Import Screen.
Checksum
Returns a JSON encoded array of file MD5 checksums for a given WordPress release / locale. Although english is the default, it's suggested to pass it for 100% compatibility with core.
Note that MD5 hashes are not cryptographically secure and should not be relied on to detect malicious changes to WordPress files.
Editor
Used by the theme and plugin editor to get a reference to documentation generated with phpDocumentor.
Events
Upcoming WordCamps and meetup events, filterable by location.
The date and end_date fields in the response are in the event's local timezone, not UTC.
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