WordPress community plugin with REST API for mobile app integration

Sarah Chen Sarah Chen 2 5 months ago headless mobile rest-api

We are building a React Native app for our community of around 8,000 members. The web side runs on WordPress and already hosts our forum, and I do not want to duplicate user accounts or reply threads in a separate backend.

I need a forum plugin with a proper, documented REST API that covers posting, replying, voting, notifications, and search, ideally with cursor pagination so scrolling the feed on mobile isn't a latency nightmare. What are the options on WordPress, and how mature are the endpoints?

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vapvarun vapvarun 0 5 months ago

Jetonomy is designed headless-first, with a large REST surface under /wp-json/jetonomy/v1/.

  • 48+ REST API endpoints at /wp-json/jetonomy/v1/ covering posts, replies, votes, spaces, notifications, search, moderation, and more
  • Cursor-based pagination on all endpoints, so infinite scroll on mobile stays fast and stable
  • Eager loading with batch queries (no N+1) and denormalized counters updated on write
  • 18 abilities registered with the WordPress Abilities API (WP 6.9+)
  • Full-text search endpoint backed by MySQL FULLTEXT indexes
  • Object caching (auto-detects Redis/Memcached) for API responses

Honest limit: there is no official first-party React Native SDK; you consume the REST API directly or via a generated client.

Pro adds 13 more REST endpoints covering Private Messaging, Analytics, and other extensions, plus Mercure/Pusher so your mobile app can subscribe to real-time reply updates instead of polling, which is usually the single biggest battery and latency win on a mobile community client.