“AlexaWP” plugin is a WordPress plugin that integrates with Amazon Alexa to create and enable the creation of Alexa skills.

Prepare

You need to install Fieldmanager plugin.

$ /PATH/TO/WORDPRESS/wp-content/plugins
$ git clone git@github.com:alleyinteractive/wordpress-fieldmanager.git
$ wp plugin get wordpress-fieldmanager --format=json
{
  "name": "wordpress-fieldmanager",
  "title": "Fieldmanager",
  "author": "Austin Smith, Matthew Boynes",
  "version": "1.1.0-beta.1",
  "description": "Add fields to content types programatically.",
  "status": "inactive"
}
$ wp plugin activate wordpress-fieldmanager
Success: Plugin 'wordpress-fieldmanager' activated.

Installation

$ git clone git@github.com:tomharrigan/AlexaWP.git
$ wp plugin get AlexaWP --format=json
{
  "name": "AlexaWP",
  "title": "Alexa WP",
  "author": "TomHarrigan",
  "version": "0.1",
  "description": "Create Alexa skills using your WordPress site",
  "status": "inactive"
}

Activate plugin

You need activate AlexaWP plugin and flush rewrite rules.

$ wp plugin activate AlexaWP
$ wp rewrite flush

After activate the plugin, you can call alexawp/v1 api

$ curl https://example.com/wp-json/alexawp/v1 | jq .
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   905    0   905    0     0   1568      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1568
{
  "namespace": "alexawp/v1",
  "routes": {
    "/alexawp/v1": {
      "namespace": "alexawp/v1",
      "methods": [
        "GET"
      ],
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "methods": [
            "GET"
          ],
          "args": {
            "namespace": {
              "required": false,
              "default": "alexawp/v1"
            },
            "context": {
              "required": false,
              "default": "view"
            }
          }
        }
      ],
      "_links": {
        "self": "https://example.com/wp-json/alexawp/v1"
      }
    },
    "/alexawp/v1/skill/briefing": {
      "namespace": "alexawp/v1",
      "methods": [
        "GET"
      ],
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "methods": [
            "GET"
          ],
          "args": []
        }
      ],
      "_links": {
        "self": "https://example.com/wp-json/alexawp/v1/skill/briefing"
      }
    },
    "/alexawp/v1/skill/news": {
      "namespace": "alexawp/v1",
      "methods": [
        "POST"
      ],
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "methods": [
            "POST"
          ],
          "args": []
        }
      ],
      "_links": {
        "self": "https://example.com/wp-json/alexawp/v1/skill/news"
      }
    },
    "/alexawp/v1/skill/(?P\\d+)": {
      "namespace": "alexawp/v1",
      "methods": [
        "POST"
      ],
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "methods": [
            "POST"
          ],
          "args": []
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "_links": {
    "up": [
      {
        "href": "https://example.com/wp-json/"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Create “Flash Briefing feed” content

After setup, you can see “Briefings” post type in your dashboard.

You can create Flash briefing post .

After publsh your post, you can get Flash briefing post from alexawp/v1/skill/briefing.

$ curl https://example.com/wp-json/alexawp/v1/skill/briefing
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   191    0   191    0     0    956      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   955
{
  "uid": "587f3a8760e78",
  "updateDate": "1970-01-01T00:33:37.0Z",
  "titleText": "Example Briefing News",
  "mainText": "This is a example flash briefing news!",
  "redirectionUrl": "https://example.com"
}