From 21f009ebcff0622869772d806a4f415f9a4ff4a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Pollock Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:45:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add JWT Auth to Auth docs #199 --- guide/authentication/index.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/guide/authentication/index.md b/guide/authentication/index.md index 1594653..4e62a47 100644 --- a/guide/authentication/index.md +++ b/guide/authentication/index.md @@ -170,3 +170,13 @@ $response = wp_remote_post( $url, array ( [http-basic]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617 [basic-auth-plugin]: https://github.com/WP-API/Basic-Auth [application-passwords]: https://github.com/georgestephanis/application-passwords + +JSON Web Token Authentication +----------------------------- +As an alternative to oAuth for Token based authentication, you can use [JSON Web Token](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc75190 (JWT) authentication. An implimentation of the JWT standard, for the WordPress REST API is provided by the [JWT Authentication For The REST API](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jwt-authentication-for-wp-rest-api/). + +Usage of this plugin is well documented in the plugin [README](https://github.com/Tmeister/wp-api-jwt-auth/blob/develop/README.md). + +[WordPress.org Plugin Page](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jwt-authentication-for-wp-rest-api/) +[Git Repo](https://github.com/Tmeister/wp-api-jwt-auth) +[More Information On JWT](https://jwt.io/)