In May 2013 White House released API for We The People, application designed to give citizens direct line to White House.
The ease of WordPress with the totally customizable templates of We The People plugin give you the power to share important to you..
Special thanks goes out to White House team for building and opening We The People API for the general public and for inviting Buckeye Interactive to National Day of Civic Hacking to premiere this plugin..
The plugin includes number of different ways to embed petitions from We The People.
Petitions IDs aren't especially easy to uncover from We The People site so We The People plugin includes TinyMCE button to help you.
Clicking the button will open overlay that will let you search We The People petitions by title to find your issue.
To add We The People petition to WordPress sidebar go to Appearance > Widgets and drag.
Like TinyMCE button the widget allows you to search for your desired petition by title and show open petitions. $GLOBALS global variable.
If you're developer and need more complete access to We The People API you can use the method through the $GLOBALS global variable.
The method accepts two arguments the API method to call and array of arguments to pass to API..
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