WordPress’ HTML API saw significant growth over the past year: it can parse 99.5% of the Internet, and has learned a few new tricks for turning HTML “soup” into a proper HTML entrée. Let’s review the changes and see where it’s heading next.
This talk will dive deeper than just the release notes, however, and explore the undocumented capabilities of the API. Replacing inner HTML, reading block attributes and migrating blocks on the server, and safely encapsulating user-supplied HTML are just some of the things the HTML API can do today.
Attendees should come away understanding how to recombine the pieces of the HTML API into new custom processors that support their workflows. Discussion about levels of risk will clarify the safety impact on different kinds of extension of the API.