client_id for mobile app connecting to wordpress api?

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  winschur · Member · Jan 21, 2018 at 10:36 pm

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  Hi:

  I am connecting a mobile app to a wordpress.com site through the wordpress api. The app is built with ionic, and the wordpress.com site is private, in case that is relevant.

  I am trying to authenticate the app to connect it to the site. In the wordpress docs (here https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/oauth2/) they say that my app needs a (i) client_id and also a (ii) “client_secret_key”.

  How can I get these for a mobile app?

  It looks like I have to create or register my app to get these two things. The only link I can find for that is the “applications manager”, at https://developer.wordpress.com/apps/. But the required entries on that site seem geared toward normal websites, not apps. For example, that site requires a url and a redirect url, which does not seem applicable to mobile.

  So, does anyone know how to get a wordpress.com client_id and client_secret_key for a mobile/ionic app?

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jan 22, 2018 at 9:56 am

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  Hi winschur,

  If you have questions about our API, please use this contact form on the Developers site:

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  Thanks :)

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  winschur · Member · Jan 22, 2018 at 1:17 pm

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  Thanks. The link you provided is no longer active (got a “Page not found” result). Is there another link?

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jan 22, 2018 at 2:46 pm

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  Oh, sorry about that! If you try again, you should be able to contact us now.

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  winschur · Member · Jan 22, 2018 at 3:08 pm

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  Got it. I have submitted the question there. Thank you for your help.

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jan 22, 2018 at 4:05 pm

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  Great to hear, thanks for letting me know :)