Roadmap

Introduction

This page aims to provide a roadmap for the phased approached to get to a fully functional API for bbPress

Getting started

Careful planning and extra reading is needed:

• API routes to implement (see https://github.com/ePascalC/bbp-API/wiki/API-routes)
• Understand the WP 4.7 REST API implementation and how to extend correctly

The assumptions are:

• WP 4.7 is expected, so only extending the built-in API
• bbPress 2.6 is our main target, however let's see what is valid for bbPress 2.5.12 too

Phases

Phase 1

• Basic extension of the API for forums, topics and replies
• Only 'public' information will be visible

Phase 2

• Basic authentication
• Only on https sites (by default, admin could force to accept http too?)

Phase 3

• Extend to users, tags
• Admin options (expose full user name or not, cut contents at e.g. 50chars, etc)
• Translation-ready for translate.wordpress.org
• Error checking: give back correct errors if no data found (404 page, error codes)

Phase 4

• Authentication hardening