Right way to call wp.users().me()

[wblaircox]

After nearly two weeks of trying to get WP-API working for my simple project/use, I've landed here thanks to @kadamwhite. I'm running a simple JS app within a Wordpress page. I want to save data specific to the logged-in user to the database. Using WP-API is ideal for this in my case. I'm nearly there, finally! Except for that bloody infuriating authentication again. I'm accessing draft/private posts.

So, how exactly do I;

function getPosts() {
    //wp.users().auth("USER","PASS").me();
    wp.posts().users().me().context('edit').param('status', 'draft').then(function (posts) {
        console.log(posts);
    });
};

But make sure the current WP User is authenticated? wp.users().me() looks about right, but what is the correct method?

Thanks!

[wblaircox]

As with all the other methods of using WP-API, I can get it to work just fine for published posts. But authentication escapes me. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions on what I'm doing incorrectly?

[kadamwhite]

@wblaircox we've got a guide in progress that'll help you out a lot, I'm slammed with day job rn but will try to get it online within the next day.

[kadamwhite]

@wblaircox let us know if this does the trick: http://wp-api.org/node-wpapi/guides/2016/08/12/authenticating-with-cookies.html

[kadamwhite]

As a side node, wp.users.me() will retrieve the record for your user, once logged-in; wp.posts().param('status', 'draft').etcetera will not be chained off of the call to .me().

[wblaircox]

@kadamwhite well that finally worked perfectly, once I made a few tweaks to my code - thanks!!!!! I have custom fields I'm using to store my data in the posts. I'm just trying to figure out where the custom fields are in the JSON returned. Is there something else I need to do to get this to appear using node-wpapi? It was buried before in the Backbone structure.

Update: I was previsioulsy using the https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rest-api-controller/ to enable the endpoints. This seemed to allowed the custom fields to show in the Backbone API JSON. But this plugin now causes a fatal site error.

Cheers!

[kadamwhite]

@wblaircox I'd check out register_rest_field to ensure those fields get included in the returned JSON. Hope that helps!

[wblaircox]

@kadamwhite HA!!! that only took 2 weeks!!! But, I've learned a great deal around using WordPress for far more than I have in the past. Thank you very much for all your assistance - that article you wrote last night was the missing key to properly using this.