Wordpress is a good content mangement system for building websites, but it will be better if you build like mobile apps,
As of April 2026, User Data Fields For JWT Authentication is a WordPress jwt plugin with 40 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: JWT Authentication for WP REST API.
WordPress is a good content mangement system for building websites, but it will be better if you build like mobile apps,
With the wordpress rest api you can create posts, edit posts, view posts, Users, Uploading Media etc…
but the problem with the wordpress rest api it does not provide any authentication methods for third party application like mobile apps
The Jwt Plugin on wordpress.org does provide that
and this plugin is just a addon for that plugin
So this plugin is useful if you don’t want to make another request to fetch user data like Id etc..
because you have to get the id of the user in ordet to get all data
It really simple plugin
it writed with 50 lines of code, the size of the plugin is 3Kb
Note: This Is Plugin For
JWT Authentication for WP REST API Plugin
so if th…
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to 6.0.11 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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