wp_wpcat_json_rest

Extend the REST-API to work with Wordpress Media-Library. Organize images in Folders. Add and Update images including Metadata and Posts using the images. Access with Authorization only. This plugin extends the REST-API of Wordpress to directly access the Media-Library for Images. It is intended to be used together with a Lightroom Plugin or as a stand-alone interface for headless WordPress. The new REST-API endpoints (functions) allow to add additional metadata to images, update existing metadata or update images completely without changing the Wordpress-ID. Images may be added to the standard directory hierarchy of wordpress or to an additional folder which allows better organization and searching for images.

0.0.1 to 0.0.6

• Development phase

0.0.7

• First working release: 1.04.2020

0.0.8

• Translation of comments. Preparation for wordpress.org Plugin-directory

0.0.9

• Adaptations for publish to wordpress.org Plugin-directory
• implemented namespace for the plugin
• changed define to const (only const is in the namespace, define not)
• changed the REST-namespace
• removed all wpcat and wp_ - prefixes for plugin-code, except in comments
• GET - /addfromfolder provides now a list with id's and original-files that are already added to the media-library
• changed permission callbacks to is_user_logged_in
• added required = true to args of rest-route-functions
• added authorization required for complete REST-API
• fixed md5_original_file request for deleted files in folder, but still in media-library

0.0.10

• Removed minor inconsistencies at the rest_field definitions

0.0.11

• added namespace to inner functions

0.0.12

• set resize quality back to standard value (82). Images were too big!

0.0.13

• Readme updated. No functional change.
• 2020-02-12: Test with WP5.6.1 an PHP8.0 on live site: no errors reported. Works!
• PHP-Compatibility check with phpcs. Compatible from PHP 5.4 - 8.0. But keep PHP 7.0 as minimum version
• Update to keep some WP coding guideline. But still not all! Only partially done.

0.0.14

• Readme and docblocks updated.
• Added functionality to handle webp images as well. Tested with WP 5.8-RC4 test version.

0.0.15

• Update function updated! The update includes now also ALL posts that are using the updated image. All links are changed to the new links.
• The plugin is partly re-using the great work of 'Enable Media Replacer' that solved the task already for manual updates via the frontend.
• Aditionally the 'alt-text' and the 'caption' are updated if the are used in gutenberg blocks 'image', 'gallery' and 'media-with-text'.
• Important: There are many, many other blocks, images, galleries around. For these I couldn't realize the update of 'alt-text' and 'caption'.
• BUT: The links are updated!
• Code quality check with phpstan: level 5 is OK except 19 remaining Errors. These were carefully checked and regarded as OK. Minor changes to reach level 5.

0.0.16

• Bug-Fix for Image Update with same filename. Python testcase added for that and successfully tested.

0.0.17

• Just a new tag for SVN upload test

0.0.18 *Code-Rework:

• loaded updated emrFile.php from github
• split helper functions in several files and renamed /inc to /includes
• simplified loading of WP-Error class
• added a programatical filter for image quality. Standard is now 80 for jpeg and 40 for webp.
• tested the whole bunch of changes with the python-test-suite and Lightroom.
• The further code rework acc. to: https://carlalexander.ca/designing-system-wordpress-rest-api-endpoints/ or
• https://torquemag.io/2018/03/advanced-oop-wordpress-customizing-rest-api-endpoints-improve-wordpress-search/ looks very promising but won't be done.

0.0.19

• Just a new tag for SVN upload test

0.1.0

• Rework of the image update function (endpoint of POST-Request /update/): The function updates the image FILE only and the filename if provided in POST request.
• Content, description, alt-text, parent ASO are now kept and no longer overwritten.
• Change the modified date, only and not the published date on changes. Valid for image and post that uses it.
• Set the slug and permalink according to title, if the title is changed.
• If the title of the old image was different from the filename than title will be kept. All other meta-data remains unchanged including post-parent.
• Minimum required PHP version is 7.3 now as now tests with 7.2 were done.

0.1.1

• Code Refactoring and meaningful PHPunit tests completed

0.1.2

• Test with WordPress 6.0.

0.1.3

• Test with WordPress 6.1. Minor Bug Fixes.

0.1.4

• Test with WordPress 6.2. Minor Bug Fixes especially in image_update_callback.php.

0.1.5

• Minor Bug Fixes in image_update_callback.php: added the do_action. This is the event trigger for the Pugin to strip metadata.
• Test with WordPress 6.3

0.1.5

• Test with WordPress 6.4. No changes. Detected Issue during test: If image is attached to parent the SQL wpdb->query does not update the post! Detected WordPress-Feature: The Post is not updated if it is open for editing.

0.1.5

• Test with WordPress 6.6. No changes.

1.0.0

• Added support for AVIF-Files and tested with WordPress 6.6.2. Minor change of quality for image resizing. Increased minimum versions of WP and PHP.

1.1.0

• Added an own class to generate the image-sizes with ImageMagick. This produces smaller files as epxected where AVIF is 0.5 Jpeg-size and -30% of WebP-size.
• The calculation times are roughly:
• JPEG : 2.0 s, WEBP : 3.0 s, AVIF : 4.8 s on my local machine. Without my Image_Editor its 2.6s for AVIF only! Tested with 1 image only!
• Tested with WordPress 6.7-RC4 This class to generate the image-sizes with ImageMagick is used always! For every upload!
• Added new routes and functions to handle local generated images.