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I'm a web developer who is new to WordPress. My company uses WordPress for the main company website so that the non engineers can build and maintain it. We also have a production web service. I've been tasked with importing data from our web service to be displayed on a WordPress page with a API integration. The request needs to come from the WordPress server, not the client. As I understand it my options are:
1. Buy a plugin.
2. Build a plugin.
3. Build a child theme and put my script into functions.php then figure out how to get the results into the page.
Did I get that right?
>Did I get that right?
Yes. Plugins are a very common way to extend WP functionality. It is also possible to do that through your themes (child themes) functions.php.