I recently decided to start getting back into computer things and have decided I want to learn how apis and things work and also am moderately interested in websites and hosting things (mostly for fun). Which is what lead me to this question.
Can I attempt to make a WordPress Plugin using the vivo API. I seen there is an old one that hasnt been updated, and I’m not sure if it’s salvageable or not.
I would be learning everything from scratch and will probably need help so question two would be would anybody here be willing to help whenever I get stuck and once I finish help make sure it is secure and actually well made (or at least good enough)?
The old one is not working or salvageable because it relies on the deactivated legacy platform. New API is much more versatile and capable. I would definitely support you in trying to make it WordPress plugin for it in any way that I could.
Some of our design goals for the existing plugin included;
use VivoKey as an alternative to password based login so it could be added or removed from an account at will by the user.
allow user (or via admin global override) to select if an account has one (or more) VivoKey chips associated with it, that the account can use it OR a password, use it WITH a password (2fa style), or ONLY use it (password disabled).
use the sub claim from the jwt to link to the account properly even though most systems want to link by email address which is not part of the auth api
I am definitely willing to try. I don’t have a lot of experience with this kinda stuff, but this seems like a feasible goal to learn everything with. Everything i would have to use seems well documented.
i have hit my first question. I do not know how to setup a testing environment for wordpress/php. i have a basic skeleton put together, and i got the skeleton to load on my live wp site, but i tried adding something and it broke the admin page. currently using eclipse because im familiar with it and it has a php plugin.
I’m not familiar with building Wordpress, but have you tried using any LLMs such as ChatGPT, Mistral, or Claude? They are super useful for troubleshooting and piecing together code.
probably the easiest way is to go with a Digital Ocean one-click deploy droplet. These are great because you can set up a VPS and deploy everything automatically to your own server which you control completely, unlike a hosting service where you might have to ask permission to deploy test code and tweak wordpress during development. The overall cost is like $6/mo for one of these droplets.
That’s essentially what I came up with too while thinking about it. But I’m going with a locally hosted VM. Found out that WordPress has built in debugging too. But I’m making progress.
Im not at that stage of needing help yet, still doing the basics which are easy enough. I was looking for a way of testing it, and it seems the best way is hosting a private WordPress session.
After a brief hiatus i am back to working on the plugin. Got distracted by work, a cold, and D&D . Actually have a vm server now and next step is going to be figuring out debugging. Once I have that down, I believe the rest of this will be smooth sailing .
. Actually have a vm server now and next step is going to be figuring out debugging. Once I have that down, I believe the rest of this will be smooth sailing 
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