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Direct link to the article WPGraphQL Becomes a Canonical Plugin: My Move to Automattic
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WPGraphQL Becomes a Canonical Plugin: My Move to Automattic

It’s always a gas when a good person doing good work gets a good deal. In this case, Jason’s viral WPGraphQL plugin has not only become a canonical WordPress plugin, but creator Jason Bahl is joining Automattic as well.…

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Geoff Graham on Oct 10, 2024
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Direct link to the article How to Build a Nearly Headless WordPress Website
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How to Build a Nearly Headless WordPress Website

I believe that a traditional WordPress theme should be able to work as effectively as a static site or a headless web app. The overwhelming majority of WordPress websites are built with a good ol’ fashioned WordPress theme. Most of …

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Alex Standiford on Oct 18, 2021
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Direct link to the article Mars Theme: A Deep Look at Frontity’s Headless WordPress Theme
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Mars Theme: A Deep Look at Frontity’s Headless WordPress Theme

Frontity is a framework for creating de-coupled (or "headless") WordPress sites. In this article, we dive into the process of spinning up such a site, with a detailed overview of the building blocks provided by Frontity and its flagship theme, Mars.
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Ganesh Dahal on Sep 9, 2021
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Direct link to the article Creating a Headless WordPress Site With Frontity
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Creating a Headless WordPress Site With Frontity

Frontity is a WordPress-focused React-based server-side dynamic-rendering framework (phew!) that allows us to create fast headless websites. Chris has a good introduction to Frontity. I guess you could think of it like Next.js for WordPress. And while the demand …

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Ganesh Dahal on Aug 20, 2021
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Direct link to the article Just How Niche is Headless WordPress?
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Just How Niche is Headless WordPress?

I wonder where headless WordPress will land. And by “headless” I mean only using the WordPress admin and building out the user-facing site through the WordPress REST API rather than the traditional WordPress theme structure.

Is it… big? The future …

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Chris Coyier on Jun 15, 2021
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Direct link to the article Using New Gatsby Source WordPress Plugin
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Using New Gatsby Source WordPress Plugin

In my previous article, I discussed how I learned to create a decoupled WordPress powered Gatsby site using the Gatsby Source WPGraphQL plugin. The project was done following the ongoing developmental version of WPGraphQL and an excellent tutorial by Henrik …

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Ganesh Dahal on Apr 23, 2021 Updated on Apr 26, 2021
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Direct link to the article Reconciling Editor Experience and Developer Experience in the CMS
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Reconciling Editor Experience and Developer Experience in the CMS

Components are great, aren’t they? They are these reusable sources of truth that you can use to build rock-solid front-ends without duplicating code.

You know what else is super cool? Headless content management! Headless content management system (CMS) products offer …

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Sean C Davis on Feb 12, 2021
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Direct link to the article Rendering the WordPress philosophy in GraphQL
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Rendering the WordPress philosophy in GraphQL

WordPress is a CMS that’s coded in PHP. But, even though PHP is the foundation, WordPress also holds a philosophy where user needs are prioritized over developer convenience. That philosophy establishes an implicit contract between the developers building WordPress themes …

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Leonardo Losoviz on Jan 18, 2021
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Direct link to the article #197: A Look at Stackbit and Stackbit Studio
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#197: A Look at Stackbit and Stackbit Studio

The Stackbit app helps you kick out a new Jamstack site very quickly. Pick a theme, a static site generator, and a CMS and it’ll get a repo going for you on the double. Stackbit has gotten much more powerful …

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Chris Coyier on Nov 2, 2020
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