401 error

Hi,

I’m testing the WP Node API and I’m trying to create a post, however I get this error:

{ "code": "rest_cannot_create", "message": "Sorry, you are not allowed to create new posts.", "data": { "status": 401 } }

I’m authenticating with my login for wordpress and testing it on localhost. This is the code:

var WPAPI = require( 'wpapi' );

var wp = new WPAPI({
    endpoint: 'http://localhost/WordPressAPI/wordpress/wp-json',

    username: 'username',
    password: '--!',
    auth: true
})

var post = wp.posts().create({
    // "title" and "content" are the only required properties
    title: 'Your Post Title',
    content: 'Your post content',
    // Post will be created as a draft by default if a specific "status"
    // is not specified
    status: 'publish'
}).then(function( response ) {
    // "response" will hold all properties of your newly-created post,
    // including the unique `id` the post was assigned on creation
    console.log( response.id );
});

Running this code in NodeJS doesn’t do anything either. Does someone know what I’m doing wrong? Thanks!

[kadamwhite]

Hello @marcianosr and thanks for using the WordPress REST API (and this library!) May I ask whether you’re running the Basic Auth plugin on your site? That plugin must be installed and active for username/password authentication to succeed.

As a side note, the “auth: true” should be unnecessary, but would not contribute to the error you are seeing.

[kadamwhite]

@marcianosr my pleasure, I’m glad to hear you got things working! Thanks for the update and let us know if you run into anything else!