Title: WP React Headless (Rendering Items / Widgets / Shortcodes)
Last modified: July 14, 2023

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# WP React Headless (Rendering Items / Widgets / Shortcodes)

 *  [Edwin Marte Torres](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hedgehog1973/)
 * (@hedgehog1973)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-react-headless-rendering-items-widgets-shortcodes/)
 * Hey guys.
 * A company told me to extend a website using REACT and WordPress as a backend.
   Although much information is provided from the WP REST API, there are still some
   components we would like to “render” or at least to manipulate their data.
 * As an example, there’s the “Recent Posts” widgets which we would like to get 
   the “data” from it instead of going into the list of posts and selecting the “
   recent” ones.
 * Things like this can be possible?
 * Also, is there a REACT library to render the WP shortcodes?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-react-headless-rendering-items-widgets-shortcodes/#post-16897642)
 * API posts requests by default return the most recent posts. You can request a
   certain number with the “per_page” query var. There’s no need to pluck recent
   posts out of a list.
 * Shortcodes are PHP based and thus need to be processed server side. All REACT
   could do is make an API request for the rendered shortcode. AFAIK there is no
   such API endpoint by default, but you could create a custom endpoint for the 
   purpose.

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-react-headless-rendering-items-widgets-shortcodes/#post-16897642)
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