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Custom API for WP

Custom API for WP plugin plugin allows you to create no code custom REST endpoints / Custom APIs in WordPress. With interactive Graphical User Interface (GUI) fetch any data from WordPress database tables like users…

Active installs1K+1K+ tier
Downloads · 30d2.1K▲ +44.7% vs prev. 30d
Rating4.8/545 reviews
Health score81/100Excellent
All-time downloads68.7KSince Jul 2020
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 3.0.1PHP 5.4+
Downloads · 7d812▲ 3.5× week over week
Our verdict

Safe pick

Yes — Custom API for WP is a safe, well-maintained plugin to use in 2026. It runs on 1K+ sites, is rated 4.8/5 and was last updated 6 days ago, and scores 81/100 on our health check.

  • Loved by users — 4.8/5 from 45 reviews
  • Actively developed — last update 6 days ago
  • Momentum — downloads up 44.7% vs the previous 30 days

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

114229343Jul 6Aug 19Oct 3
Yesterday41
Daily average (1y)31
Peak day530Oct 6, 2025
Last 12 months11.4K

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Custom API for WP stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
api #17 10,000 Best api plugins →
custom api #4 10,000 Best custom api plugins →
Custom Endpoints #9 4,959 Best Custom Endpoints plugins →
external api #3 10,000 Best external api plugins →
rest-api #23 7,538 Best rest-api plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 4.918.6%
  • 4.814.1%
  • 4.511.7%
  • 4.67.3%
  • 4.16.3%
  • 4.75.8%
  • Other36.2%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 from 45 reviews

  • 5★95.6%
  • 4★0.00%
  • 3★0.00%
  • 2★0.00%
  • 1★4.4%

About Custom API for WP

From the official readme · v4.9.0

Description

Custom API for WP plugin plugin allows you to create no code custom REST endpoints / Custom APIs in WordPress. With interactive Graphical User Interface (GUI) fetch any data from WordPress database tables like users, posts, custom tables or any 3rd-party plugin’s table. You can also use HTTP request methods like POST, PUT, DELETE (Insert, Update, Delete) data with these created Custom endpoint / Custom REST routes.

You can also connect any external APIs and platforms to fetch the data and display data on WordPress frontend . You can use your design (custom HTML, CSS and JS), post data on third-party platforms on any WordPress events (user creation, Woocommerce events, form submission, membership purchase etc) via WordPress hooks.

You can easily interact with the WordPress database to perform CRUD operations on data using the custom endpoints created (generated) using Connect to external APIs | Custom endpoints for WP.

Custom API for WP plugin takes care of writing the complex SQL queries to fetch/update data and provide you with a very simple User Interface to create or generate custom REST endpoints.
This plugin also provides the filter operations in which you can filter the data you want to show in the API endpoint response.

🆓FREE Plan Features

  • Unlimited GET APIs: Create as many GET APIs as you need to fetch data from WordPress tables.
  • One Advanced API using SQL: Build a single advanced API with custom SQL queries to perform CRUD (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) operations.
  • External API Integration (JSON Only): Connect to third-party APIs that return JSON data.
    • Hooks Support for External APIs: Use hooks to trigger and execute connected external APIs.

💲PREMIUM Plan Features

  • Unlimited RESTful APIs: Create APIs with all HTTP methods – GET, POST, PUT, DELETE.

    • Custom Filters on API Data: Apply filters to refine data retrieved in Custom APIs.
    • Customizable API Response: Format API responses to match your exact requirements in custom APIs.
    • Role-Based Access Control: Restrict access to custom APIs based on user roles.
    • Conditional Logic & Filters: Add logic-based rules and conditions to custom APIs. Use query parameters to filter API responses on the go.
  • Unlimited Advanced APIs with SQL: Build complex and fully customized APIs using SQL queries to perform CRUD (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) operations.

    • Customizable API Response: Format API responses to match your exact requirements in custom APIs.
    • Role-Based Access Control: Restrict access to custom APIs based on user roles.
  • Unlimited External API Integrations: Connect to as many third-party APIs as needed that return JSON, XML, GRAPHQL or SOAP responses.

    • Hooks Support for External APIs: Use hooks to trigger and execute connected external APIs.
    • Shortcode & Template Tag Display: Easily display data from external API on your frontend using shortcodes or template tags.
    • Secure Authentication for External APIs: Supports OAuth2, Bearer Tokens, and API Key authentication methods.
    • Dependent API: Dynamically retrieve a token from an external API to authenticate requests to the data API.

Third-party/External API Integration into WordPress

  • This plugin allows you to integrate any external or third-party REST API endpoints into WordPress very easily with the help of our interactive and simple GUI within seconds. With this function of our plugin, you can fetch data to your WordPress (WooCommerce) site or you can use it to fetch data and process it according to your needs.

  • These integrations can also be done on third-party plugin events like form submission using Elementor, Wpforms, Gravityforms etc. and also payment status or subscription status based on transactions done via payment gateways like that provided by WooCommerce, Wpforms, Gravityforms or any other services.

  • External API integrations can be done on any event of WordPress like user registration, user membership level change or any other using plugin hooks.

  • WooCommerce product data can be synced with any external/third-party API provider(Supplier) on a real-time basis with our plugin.

  • This feature also provides the capability to register or login users to third-party platforms by making an API request to the third-party platforms.

  • Data display on front end using shortcode or template tag fetched from external API endpoints.

  • Any kind of external APIs supporting JSON, XML, SOAP, GraphQL can be connected with authentication methods like OAuth, JWT, Bearer, API Key or even custom API authentication.

Use Cases

  • Access custom data of the WordPress site into your mobile application or web clients via custom REST API Endpoints.
  • Create easy Custom REST Routes to Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) WordPress content from client-side JavaScript or external applications.
  • Interact with any standard database schema/ table or your custom-built schema/ table to fetch/ update/ delete data using the custom API endpoints.
  • Connect two WordPress sites or connect your WordPress site with a website built in any framework and Get/Update/Insert/Delete (CRUD) data of one website to another website with the help of Custom API and feasibility of connection with External APIs / Custom Endpoints developed in the external Website.
  • Connect with External Rest API Routes to display data on your website or process the data received from External Endpoint.
  • Integrate External/third-party REST API endpoints with third-party plugin’s payment gateways like that of WooCommerce, Wpformsor any other custom gateway such that the API can be called automatically based on the payment status.
  • Integrate External/ third-party REST API endpoints with custom/ third-party plugins’ forms like that of Wpforms, Elementor, Gravityforms etc such that the external APIs can be called on these forms submission or any related events to perform fetch/update/delete operation based on API endpoints.
  • Sync third-party/external API provider’s (Supplier’s) API Inventory data into WooCommerce and display them in the product feed on a real-time basis. [More detials]
  • Integrate external APIs into WooCommerce – If you have a Woocommerce store and want to update the data like order creation, order status, and user profile update on a third-party platform in real-time, then a solution can be provided using our plugin.
  • Data display using shortcode – Fetch data from external API with security and display that on WordPress front-end pages using the shortcodes with customized design.

Add-Ons

WooCommerce Products sync via External API | Import products in WooCommerce using Supplier APIs

  • If you have a WooCommerce store and want to sync (add/update/delete) the products from the external inventory warehouse/ store’s platform via APIs then it can be using the CUSTOM API plugin along with our Woocommerce products sync from external APIs.
  • Following are the key features –

    1. Data can be synced automatically after a certain specified period. (For example, every 4 hours a day).
    2. All the product details like SKU, name, description, price, stock status, images, custom attributes and variant productions can be updated along with other custom attributes as well.
    3. Sync can be done in the background such that customers using your WP site are not affected.
    4. Data syncing can also be done by clicking on the sync button manually in the User Interface.
    5. WooCommerce product images can also be added or updated with ease based on external API data.
    6. No extra work to import and export CSV/ TXT files manually. API Integration will do the job automatically.
  • This plugin supports complete integrations for the following –

    1. Sync Amrod catalogue to WooCommerce
    2. Sync S&S Activewear products to WooCommerce
    3. Sync products and orders from Shopify to WooCommerce
    4. Import products from Parts Unlimited to WooCommerce
    5. Import products from Parts Canada to WooCommerce
    6. Import products from Barron to WooCommerce

Zoho Integration with WordPress

  • If you have a WordPress site and want to connect it to your Zoho applications like Zoho CRM, Zoho connect, Zoho Subscription, Zoho Inventory etc to perform operations like sync real-time data between these platforms, which involves user profile sync, operate on WordPress or assign membership to the user based on his Zoho subscription etc. With this integration, any Zoho APIs and webhooks can be integrated to perform real-time sync.

WordPress Automate using Webhooks

  • This plugin can be made compatible to automate WordPress events with external API and webhook to synchronize data between WordPress and external applications.
    For example – If you have a WordPress/Woocommerce site and want to sync the user data, product data, posts, and membership data with external platforms, inventories and CRM like Zoho, Hubspot etc., then this plugin can be extended with an add-on to achieve this.

These solutions can be used additionally along with the plugin. To know more details, contact us at apisupport@xecurify.com and let us know your requirements.

Type of Data which you can retrieve with Custom Endpoints

  • WP Users and User Meta.
  • WP Roles and Capabilities.
  • WP Posts, Pages and custom post types.
  • WP Options.
  • WP Taxonomy.
  • WooCommerceproducts, WordPress Membership plugins data.
  • Custom data, Custom posts, Custom parameters, Custom fields and many more.
  • Any third-party plugins or custom table data can be fetched/updated using these custom API endpoints.

External Service

This plugin may call login.xecurify.com (our own service) in case user wants to register or share any queries or feedback with us and this is completely optional.

Privacy Policy

This plugin does not store any user data, and all the data remains on the user’s end only.

Installation

From your WordPress dashboard

  1. Visit Plugins > Add New
  2. Search for Custom API for WP. Find and Install the Custom API for WP plugin by miniOrange
  3. Activate the plugin

From WordPress.org

  1. Download the Custom API for WP plugin
  2. Unzip and upload the custom-api-for-wp directory to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  3. Activate the miniOrange API plugin from your Plugins page.

Once Activated

  1. Go to the Settings-> Custom API menu
  2. Click on the Create API button
  3. Choose data that you want to retrieve with API and conditions to retrieve data
  4. Save the configuration and your API will be ready to use.

Frequently asked questions

Can I fetch data from an external API endpoint and display it on my WordPress pages?

Yes, the plugin provides a feature to connect to any external endpoint and display the data using the WordPress shortcode or template tag. More details can be found here.

Can this plugin be used to create API for any third-party plugin?

Yes, this plugin can help you perform any Database Operation for any plugin’s table in the WordPress database based on various filters that you want to apply.

Can I write create or generate API endpoints in WordPress using my own complex custom SQL Query?

Yes, the plugin provides this functionality so that any custom endpoints can be created or generated based on your self-defined custom SQL query with any complexity, so SQL query can be used to perform operations even using multiple WP database tables.

How to integrate External/third-party side(Non-WordPress) REST API endpoints into WordPress?

The plugin provides the Graphical User Interface-based feature to integrate or connect to any external API endpoints easily within WordPress and these connections can be used to fetch/update data via these external API endpoints on any WordPress events on a real-time basis.

How to create API endpoints in WordPress

This plugin is exactly meant to do that in which you can easily create any APIs to interact with the WordPress database and perform any operations like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE within seconds along with security.

How to import/sync products from an external inventory/supplier to my WooCommerce store?

The plugin can be with our other add-on Woocommerce product sync from external API to sync all the products including adding, updating, and deleting products based on what is available on the inventory/supplier’s end.

Can this plugin be connected to Zoho for integration with WordPress?

Yes, the plugin’s Connect to External API feature can be used to connect the Zoho platforms with WordPress and sync data in real-time using developer hooks or on-demand end-to-end integration.

Changelog

First release of the plugin Create REST endpoints in WordPress

1.1.1

  • Initial version

1.1.2

  • Added UI changes and contact form bug fix

1.1.3

  • Added feedback form at deactivation

1.1.4

  • Improved SEO and added compatibility with WP 5.5

1.1.5

  • Showing all premium features and Added customer registration tab

1.1.6

  • Bugs and UI fixes

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

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FAQ

Custom API for WP: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 4, 2026

Is Custom API for WP free?

Yes. Custom API for WP is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Custom API for WP safe to use in 2026?

Yes — Custom API for WP is a safe, well-maintained plugin to use in 2026. It runs on 1K+ sites, is rated 4.8/5 and was last updated 6 days ago, and scores 81/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Custom API for WP?

Custom API for WP is active on 1K+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 68,673 times since it launched in July 2020. It was downloaded 2,137 times in the last 30 days.

Does Custom API for WP work with WordPress 7.1?

Custom API for WP is officially tested up to WordPress 7.0.6, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

What PHP version does Custom API for WP need?

Custom API for WP requires PHP 5.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was Custom API for WP last updated?

The latest version, 4.9.0, was released on September 28, 2026 (6 days ago).

Who makes Custom API for WP?

Custom API for WP is developed and maintained by miniOrange.

What are the best alternatives to Custom API for WP?

The most popular alternatives to Custom API for WP are WP Consent API (200K+ installs), Disable REST API (80K+ installs) and Mailgun for WordPress (80K+ installs).

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