Announcing Public Preview of API Management WordPress plugin to build customized developer portals

Azure API Management has a developer portal that all customers can customize and deploy. Today, we are offering another option for customers who want a highly customizable developer portal with advanced features such as localization, collapsible and expandable menus, custom style sheets, and more. These customers can now leverage the power of content management systems like WordPress to build and host their developer portals.

WordPress is an open source content management system (CMS) used by more than 40% of the web to create websites, blogs, and other applications. It can be deeply customized to fit your unique developer portal needs. It also has a vibrant community with a rich ecosystem of themes and plugins. Microsoft Azure App Services provides customers with a fully managed, high-performance, secure, and scalable hosting solution for WordPress.

The Azure API Management WordPress plugin allows customers to build their own developer portals leveraging the power of WordPress. The plugin is easy to deploy and install and is available in an open source GitHub repository with installation instructions. It can also be hosted on Azure App Service or another WordPress hosting provider.

This plugin allows API managers to:You can leverage WordPress’ site features to add and customize features to the Azure API Management developer portal, including localization, expandable and collapsible menus, custom style sheets, file downloads, and more.

You can learn more about the Azure API Management WordPress plugin. here. Here is a link to the open source GitHub repository: here