---
title: WP Data Access API
description: PHP programmers can use the WP Data Access API to create CRUD pages in minutes or access remote databases from their WordPress pages (or a combination of them 😉). There is no online API documentation, but it is very easy…
url: "https://docs.legacy.wpdataaccess.com/docs/wp-data-access-api/"
updated: "2025-11-19"
category: Legacy Tools / Code / API
---

# WP Data Access API

PHP programmers can use the WP Data Access API to create CRUD pages in minutes or access remote databases from their WordPress pages (or a combination of them 😉). There is no online API documentation, but it is very easy to generate your own copy.

## Generate API documentation

We recommend to store a local copy of the plugin in a separate folder to generate the API documentation and install [GraphViz](https://graphviz.org/download/) which is required to perform the documentation generation process.

- Start the command line interface
- Navigate to root folder containing the local copy of the plugin
- Enter the following commands:
  - composer require phpdocumentor/phpdocumentor
  - php vendor/phpdocumentor/phpdocumentor/bin/phpdoc.php
- Navigate to subfolder docs
- Open file index.html in your favourite browser

## Delete API documentation

- Start the command line interface
- Navigate to root folder containing the local copy of the plugin
- Enter the following command:
  - composer remove phpdocumentor/phpdocumentor
- Delete subfolder docs