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Headless WordPress. TypeScript. Astro. SEO. Automation. Obsessed with building scaleable, automated processes and beautiful, fast websites.

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Reflections on design, development, and the art of building with purpose.

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Astro vs. WordPress: Rendering Patterns of the Modern Web

Those working with WordPress are familiar with its dynamic rendering process: pages are built with PHP, pulling content from the database, and serving it on-demand to users. Today, imagine a different way of building websites: one that generates all of your pages as static HTML at build time, before users request them. In this article, […]

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Headless WordPress SEO with Yoast & GraphQL

The primary purpose of using WordPress headlessly to power a website is so that content managers, marketers, or small business owners are able to have complete control over the content on a website, while the web developer can focus on building a performant front end where that data is displayed to users quickly and beautifully. For this reason, we often want to move as much of the content as possible into WordPress rather than our front end code, especially if it is important for SEO.

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