WordPressAPIhandler is a lightweight and developer-friendly WordPress plugin designed to fetch data from external REST APIs on a recurring schedule using WP-Cron.
The plugin provides:
✓ A full admin settings panel
✓ Support for GET and POST requests
✓ Custom time interval configuration (in minutes)
✓ Automatic cron creation and rescheduling
✓ Secure API fetching with WordPress HTTP API
✓ Storage of the latest API result in wp_options
✓ A shortcode ([show_api]) for displaying the API response anywhere on the site
Perfect for developers who want to automate API calls inside WordPress, learn plugin development, or integrate external services (JSON, REST, custom endpoints) into their themes and pages.