This plugin targets to add a easy way to authenticate your APIs using JWT. Also, it provides a basic way to match the users and allow you to extend base on your needs easily with a filter. How it works This plugin will check the headers of the requests and if there is an Authorization header will try to log in a user that matches. So it is as easy to check for the current user to authenticate users in your own API. Also, it provides support for the following plugins: – http://wp-api.org/ – http://docs.woothemes.com/document/woocommerce-rest-api/ And any other that extends Wp Rest Api like http://tweichart.github.io/JSON-API-for-BuddyPress/ for BuddyPress.