Title: good tutorial ?
Last modified: July 9, 2024

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# good tutorial ?

 *  [roelof](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roelof/)
 * (@roelof)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-tutorial/)
 * Is this ([https://css-tricks.com/rendering-external-api-data-in-wordpress-blocks-on-the-back-end/](https://css-tricks.com/rendering-external-api-data-in-wordpress-blocks-on-the-back-end/))
   a good tutorial to learn how to make a call to a external api and display data
   with a custom plugin ?

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 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-tutorial/#post-17879508)
 * Sounds good at least, but the videos included are no longer available. If you
   want to develop something like this, take a look at the manual: [https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/block-tutorial/creating-dynamic-blocks/](https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/block-tutorial/creating-dynamic-blocks/)
 *  Thread Starter [roelof](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roelof/)
 * (@roelof)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-tutorial/#post-17879961)
 * Thanks, will read that page but after a quick read I do not see how I can use
   it to read for example the weather api for example this one ( [https://www.weatherapi.com/docs/](https://www.weatherapi.com/docs/))
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-tutorial/#post-17880066)
 * The basic concept of dynamic block content is to have your render callback dynamically
   determine the content and to return the desired HTML. How to get data from an
   API depends more on the API than anything specific about WP. You can use [WP_Http class methods](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http/)
   to make external API requests. Then your callback should process the returned
   data, formatting it in a manner that’s suitable for block content.

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