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Can I use the REST API to modify a shortcode? Seems not to work… (I changed the show_in_rest to true already). Here’s a snippet of my python code.

def update_wordpress_post(html_content):
    wordpress_url = f"{rest_api_endpoint}{post_id}"  # REST API URL for creating a post
    username = "username"
    password = "application_pwd"

    # Prepare the data for the request
    data = {
        "title": "name_of_the_shortcode",  # Set the title of the post
        "content": html_content,  # The generated HTML content
        "status": "publish"  # Publish the post immediately
    }

    # Make the POST request to the WordPress API
    response = requests.post(
        wordpress_url,
        json=data,
        auth=HTTPBasicAuth(username, password)  # Basic Auth using username and app password
    )

[Aakash Chakravarthy]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for using Shortcoder. Shortcoder uses “custom post types”. So if you are able to edit a custom post type usign your script, then it should work for shortcoder too.

I haven’t tried editing any custom post type with REST API.
Can you please let me know what happens in your case?

Thanks,
Aakash

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Hey Aakash! Thanks for the quick reply!

To be honest, I moved on from this problem. I hacked around it by writing the html code directly into the post_content of the shortcode in the database using SQL. Works fine for me, it’s a bit wonky but is stable enough.

I think making the shortcodes editable by the REST API would be a really great feature.

[Aakash Chakravarthy]

Hi Alex,

Glad you figured it out.

Shortcoder sets the content in the post_content field of post. So if you are using that already to modify the shortcode content, then there is no need to worry.

Thanks,
Aakash

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Yapp, thanks. Great job with shortcoder, btw. I guess this request can be closed then.

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