How to use WordPress HTTP API to make remote requests

Fetch your 10 latests Gists and display them using a shortcode.

This repository is a basic WordPress plugin created to illustrate a tutorial about remote requests and HTTP calls in a WordPress environment.

Its main function is to:

• fetch the latest 10 gists of a GitHub user,
• save these gists in the option table,
• display this list of gists via a shortcode.

Usage

Use the following shortcode anywhere in a page/post content:

[gists user="username" amount="10"]

…to display the last 10 Gists from the GitHub username user account.

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