Spacedmonkey

Here is the video from the talk that I did from WordCamp US 2019. In this talk, I discuss the different types and solutions for the authentication in the REST API.

Since this presentation, there is a new core project for authentication. It is still in the research stages, but well worth following on the github repo.

Plugins

• Oauth1
• Oauth2
• Application passwords
• Basic auth
• JW tokens
  • https://github.com/WP-API/jwt-auth
  • https://github.com/Tmeister/wp-api-jwt-auth
  • https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql-jwt-authentication
  • https://github.com/jonathan-dejong/simple-jwt-authentication

More reading

• REST API Handbook on authentication 
• JWT tokens
• 100% Stateless with JWT (JSON Web Token) by Hubert Sablonnière
• Oauth 1 
• Oauth 2
• State of the REST API 2017