[wp-hackers] Fetching posts by URL

[John]

Tareq Hasan has done a proof of concept theme using Backbone.js and the
JSON API plugin by Ryan McCue. Here's the Github repo for it, and there's a
link to his site for more info and a demo.
https://github.com/tareq1988/wp-backbone


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Joshua Sibelman
<joshua.sibelman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Looking for opinions on an approach for building a single page WP site,
> where WP is used as a CMS, e.g. many CPTs, posts 2 posts, etc.
>
> Ideally I'd be able to have all the links point to their respective posts'
> permalinks, with JavaScript intercepting the clicks and passing the path to
> a custom controller for the JSON API plugin. This way spiders can still
> crawl the site, and I can use progressive enhancement to remove the full
> page reloads.
>
> What I want to be able to do is the same kind of processing done by
> WP->parse_request, but that method relies on analyzing the URL visited in
> the browser.
>
> It seems I could either try to reproduce that method to handle a provided
> path, or I could try using data attributes in the href tags which the
> JavaScript could pass to the JSON API as arguments to get the correct
> resource.
>
> Has anyone else done something like this? Does anyone have an opinion as
> to which method might be best? I have also considered using
> get_page_by_path, but we are doing some idiosyncratic things with how some
> of the data is organized and I'm worried that would be more complicated
> than either of the above approaches.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
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