But it can be for the advanced coder to help with the workflow of a demanding production cycle of websites. I also think there will be collaborative elements to the WordPress build – with integrated handover notes, movement from prototyping to theme development and content refining and the iterative design process would then focus work on WordPress. There’s going to be more refined api integrations as WordPress can do it all – but it needs to work with the best range to suit the variety of budget and needs of a growing market. Hey if this is not the future it should be IMHO. Hope someone/some people can make it so!

Thanks for your reply. Your time is much appreciated. 🙂

I agree: eCommerce and social (instagram, etc), will probably offer the best opportunity for API integration and WordPress.

Naomi C. Bush, whom I believe you mentioned in this podcast, created that very useful Gravity Forms integration with Stripe (which uses an API, I think).

I’ve also heard you extol Shopify on two separate shows. You even mentioned it as being the future, as part of eCommerce.

I’ve just taken a look at the Shopify API, and its new Embedded App SDK, looks awesomely interesting.

As far as I know, you’re the only one yet speaking out about blending Shopify and WordPress.

Wow. You rock!

Certainly interesting to think what user contexts will be in a decade! Will it even be “mobile” the way we think about mobile now? 🙂

I guess one example would be the reverse of the Shopify API stuff I’ve done recently, which displays Shopify products on a WordPress site. Right now the only way I’ve been able to do the reverse (feature blog posts from WordPress on a Shopify site) is using RSS and jQuery, so that’s one thing the API will likely help with. Honestly, I don’t have many other use cases for the REST API stuff in mind, but I’m excited to see where it goes.