WP REST API Basic Auth

On Tutsplus, Bilal Shahid started a new series Introducing wordpress REST API. In the second post of the series, setting up and using basic authentication, he is describing about autn in REST API using wordpress.

In the current part of the series, we will set up a basic authentication protocol on the server to send authenticated requests to perform various tasks through the REST API.

To be specific, in this part we will: - look at various authentication methods available when using the REST API plugin - set up basic authentication on the server - send authenticated request using Postman - send authenticated request using JavaScript framework - send authenticated request using command line - send authenticated request using WP HTTP API