Wordpress as a CMS - best way to decouple publishing/front-end

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Wordpress as a CMS - best way to decouple publishing/front-end

Rogelio

2022年2月10日 20:44

For various reasons, this is important, but I am unsure if their are better ways OR other ramifications:

CMS = Wordpress as a CMS.

WebSite = Static site generator.

Currently when a post publishes on CMS I used API to send the info to WebSite which generates the page. All works.

However, I don't want the CMS to ALSO publish post.

I current handle this by redirecting all traffic to CMS to /wp-admin/ page.

This seems not ideal.

I would rather decouple publish button from actually publishing post.

Is this the best way?:

function change_publish( $post_ID )  
{
// Do something here //
}

add_action( 'publish_post', 'change_publish' );

I.e. to override the publish function?

Edits per comment from @alx

I will/would want to utilize the publish post status to indicate the post is published, however to clarify this see below:
You make a question of Rest API vs. Custom API - to clarify as I can here, with WP Remove Get and Post, I am making HTTP Post and Get requests to other resources, but there could be something you are needing information wise that I am not aware of, I am not utilizing Wordpresses REST API endpoints. To clarify further: When a person hits publish on the post, I've hooked into the publish to initiate an HTTP post statement to a separate resource, where the article actually publishes. However, wordpress, natively still does publish that post to the local site.
If I have a wordpress instance hosted at myCMS.com - and I hit publish on a post from myCMS.com/wp-admin/ I don't want that post to be available on the front end of myCMS.com - from a browser or endpoint.

Please let me know that clarifies.

Also as an additional note, I assume I could just have posts which are published have a visibility of private or password protected, but is their a true decoupling from the front end publishing?

Topic headless cms Wordpress

Category Web

Oleksii · Accepted Answer · 2022年2月10日 20:44

To disable WP frontend and WP REST API output, create an empty theme, i.e. 'My Empty Theme' in /wp-content/themes/myemptytheme/, that contains 3 files:

style.css
index.php
functions.php

style.css may contain the theme name only:

/*
Theme Name: My Empty Theme
*/

index.php - leave it empty

functions.php - include the following code to disable REST API output:

<?php
   add_filter( 'rest_authentication_errors', 'no_rest_api' );
   function no_rest_api( $result ) {
          return new WP_Error( 'no_rest_api', 'Rest API disabled', array( 'status' => rest_authorization_required_code()));
   }
?>

When you query a REST API endpoint, the response will be:

{
  "code": "no_rest_api",
  "message": "Rest API disabled",
  "data": {
     "status": 403
  }
}

Remember to switch to the new theme after creating the theme files.

Wordpress as a CMS - best way to decouple publishing/front-end

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