We have received a URL which is a JSON file apparently:

/?destination=hawaii

I am completely clueless when it comes to JSON and Wordpress.

Anybody know where to start?

We will need to create individual posts from this JSON file I presume..

We have received a URL which is a JSON file apparently:

http://www.domain/tools/export-json/?destination=hawaii

I am completely clueless when it comes to JSON and Wordpress.

Anybody know where to start?

We will need to create individual posts from this JSON file I presume..

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• There are some PHP native function like json_encode() and json_decode() – JMau Commented Jun 7, 2013 at 18:31

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1. json_decode the JSON into an array.

   $slices = json_decode(file_get_contents('yourJSONFile.json'),true);
   

2. Loop into the data

   if ($slices) { 
      foreach ($slices as $slice) {
         $title = $slice[1];
         // insert more logic here
     }
   } 
   

3. Create a post programmatically by using wp_insert_post.

   // Create post object
   $my_post = array(
        'post_title'    =>  $title,
        'post_content'  => 'This is my content',
        'post_status'   => 'publish',
        'post_author'   => 1,
        'post_category' => array(8,39)
   );
   
   // Insert the post into the database and return the new post ID
   $post_id = wp_insert_post( $my_post, true );
   if ( is_wp_error( $post_id ) ) {
        // error handling....
   }
   

More details in this tutorial: http://tommcfarlin/programmatically-create-a-post-in-wordpress/