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Basic standalone app

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- [Instructor] The WordPress REST API allows third party applications to gain access to content published with WordPress. To demonstrate how this is done, I've created a bare bones WordPress reader application and you can find it in the exercise files for this movie. Just grab the WP reader folder and place it anywhere on your computer. Now, this is a third-party application, independent from WordPress, so it does not need to live inside your WordPress development environment. However, for WP Reader to work properly, it does need to run in a web server environment, it just doesn't need an advanced development environment for WordPress, because it has no database, it has no PHP, or anything like that. Any web server will do here. So on my computer, I'm using VSCode, so I've installed the Live Server extension, and I'm just going to use Live Server to display WP Reader. To do that, I just open WP Reader inside…

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