API-first Development with Headless WordPress
summary
Claim is concrete: turn WordPress into an open source API platform using WPGraphQL plus Custom Post Type UI and Advanced Custom Fields to model developers with twitter github blog and languages. Demo builds a Next/Apollo front end using the Headless framework to fetch developers via GraphQL, statically generate pages with revalidate 1, and deploy on Atlas to followadev. Numbers and tooling line up, the directory works live, queries return structured JSON instead of raw HTML.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 0:32development with headless wordpress
- 1:24extensions already built into wordpress
- 2:11repository the framework that we're going to be using for headless wordpress
- 3:20spin up a wordpress site on my local machine
- 4:01turn wordpress into an api building platform
- 6:38add twitter
- 7:56add a new developer
- 8:52use the headless framework from wp engine
- 11:06create an interface
- 16:36deploy your wordpress site and your node front end
- 18:35attached a custom domain
- 19:22working through our open source framework
- 19:36create content models in a much more user-friendly way
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