This document discusses integrating WordPress with web APIs. It defines APIs and provides examples using the Treehouse and ShopLocket APIs. It demonstrates making GET requests to retrieve data and displaying it in WordPress using JSON, AJAX, and PHP. It also covers authentication methods like OAuth and discusses best practices for caching API responses and handling errors.
28. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML:
Technique used by the browser to
retrieve data from a server in the
background without interfering with
the existing page
Wikipedia: Ajax, http://trhou.se/defineAJAX
57. OAuth
An open protocol to allow secure
authorization in a simple and standard
method from web, mobile and desktop
applications.
OAuth, http://oauth.net/