Public Preview: Azure API Management WordPress plugin enables customers to build highly customizable developer portals

Azure API Management has a developer portal that can be customized and deployed by any customer. Today, we are now providing another option for our customers who want a highly customizable developer portal with advanced features such as localization, collapsible and expandable menus, custom stylesheet etc. These customers can now leverage the power of a Content Management System such as WordPress to build and host their developer portal. 

WordPress is an open-source Content Management System (CMS) used by over 40% of the web to create websites, blogs, and other applications. It can be deeply customized to fit unique developer portal needs. Further, it has a vibrant community with a rich ecosystem of themes and plugins. Microsoft Azure App service provides customers with a fully managed, performant, secure and scalable hosting solution for WordPress.

Azure API Management WordPress plugin enables our customers to leverage the power of WordPress to build their own unique developer portal. This plugin can be easily deployed and installed and is available in open source GitHub repository along with installation instructions. In addition, it can be hosted on Azure App Service or any other WordPress hosting provider.

API managers and administrators can bring up a new developer portal in a matter of few minutes and customize the theme, layout, add stylesheet or localize the portal into different languages.

You can learn more about the Azure API Management WordPress plugin here. The open source GitHub repo link is here.