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REST API Comment

Description

If you wish to ‘Create comments’ using REST API, without exposing Administrator credentials to the Front-End application, you are at the right place. Since WordPress 4.7, REST API was natively included in WordPress.

In order to ‘Create a comment’ , the authentication for a user with ‘Administrator’ role is required. While this is a deliberately done for security reasons, such implementation makes it very hard for Front-End applications to implement a simple ‘Post Comment’ or ‘Reply Comment’ function.

This plugin fulfils such requirement by extending the existing WordPress REST API endpoints.

Requirements:

Minimum PHP version: 7.0
Minimum WordPress version: 5.5

Installation:

Download the plugin form wordpress marketplace install it like any other WordPress plugin.
After the installation activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Endpoint:

When this plugin is installed one new endpoint is added to the wp/v2 namespace.

Endpoint
HTTP Verb
Permalinks

*/wp-json/wp/v2/comments/create
POST
enabled

*/?rest_route=/wp/v2/comments/create
POST
disabled

Usage:

  1. Create a Comment

To create a comment using REST API, send a POST request to:

/wp-json/wp/v2/comments/create – if permalinks is enabled on your wordpress website.

Or

/?rest_route=/wp/v2/comments/create if permalinks is not enabled on your wordpress website.

With a JSON body, as shown bellow:

`Json

{
“post”: “Post ID”,
“author_name”: “Comment Author’s name”,
“author_email”: “Comment Author’s email”,
“content”: “Comment content”
}
`

The content may also be send as an object:

`Json

{
“post”: “Post ID”,
“author_name”: “Comment Author’s name”,
“author_email”: “Comment Author’s email”,
“content”: {
“raw”:”Comment content”
}
}
`

Set header to:

`

content-type: application/json
`
If successful, you should receive a response with the data of the created comment:

`Json

{
“id”: “[comment id]”,
“status”: “[comment status]”,
“message”:”[server response message]”
}
`

In response header the status code should be:

`Http

HTTP 201 Created
`

  1. Reply a comment

To reply a comment you just need to add the field parent for the parent comment to the JSON body

`Json

{
“post”: “Post ID”,
“author_name”: “Comment Author’s name”,
“author_email”: “Comment Author’s email”,
“content”: “Comment content”,
“parent”:”Comment parent ID”
}
`

Note: Ensure the parent is a comment id that belongs to the post informed in the field post. The comment parent post id must match the post id otherwise the following error will be shown:

`Json

{
“code”: “rest_post_mismatch_parent_post_id”,
“message”: “Post ID and Parent post ID does not match”,
“data”: {
“status”: 400
}
}
`

Contact

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Screenshots

  • This Screenshot is a sample REST API POST request using REST API Comment.

FAQ

Why do I need REST API Comment?

If you’re planning on using your WordPress news website/blog as a Backend, and you’re consuming RESTful api, you’ll most probably need to Create comments and Reply comments via REST API. This is precisely what this plugin does.

Is it secure?

Great question! For the time being, this plugin just provides the same experience any wordpress site provides by default witch is allowing any one to comment a post requiring basic infos such as: name, email address and the content, without authentication. All security was followed based on the wordpress core code.

There’s a bug, what do I do?

Please create a ticket on the support team or open an issue in github repository. We’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

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Changelog

1.0.2

  • It prevents comments for posts with comment status ‘closed’
  • It prevents comments for posts with post status different from ‘publish’
  • Now it requires at least wordpress version 5.5

1.0.1

  • Now it requires at least wordpress version 4.7
  • Response was updated
  • README was Updated
  • Bug fixed

1.0.0

  • Initial Release
  • Create comment
  • Reply comment