Complete Guide to Mobile App Backend Development with WordPress REST API

This comprehensive eBook offers a structured, technical guide on how to build a mobile app with a WordPress backend using the powerful WordPress REST API. Perfect for developers and technical teams, the guide demonstrates how to use WordPress as a backend for mobile applications in a scalable and cost-effective way.

It begins by outlining key prerequisites-basic knowledge of WordPress, PHP, MySQL, REST APIs, and mobile frameworks like React Native and Flutter. From there, it walks readers through configuring WordPress for development, enabling REST API access, and verifying endpoints.
A major focus of the eBook is secure API authentication, covering both JWT and OAuth methods with real-world implementation steps and code examples. You'll also learn to build custom REST API endpoints, enforce role-based access control, and perform essential CRUD operations for data management.

The guide also explores practical performance and security tips-covering HTTPS, CORS, rate limiting, token storage, and error handling. Tools like Postman are introduced for testing and debugging API calls, with advice on resolving common issues such as 401 and 500 errors.
Whether you're building your first mobile app with WordPress or expanding an existing project, this eBook equips you with all the tools, knowledge, and best practices needed for effective mobile app backend development using WordPress.