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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, […]
Read MoreFormstack JavaScript: Getting Started With the Live Form API
With the launch of V4 of Formstack Forms earlier this year, a new feature was introduced called the Live Form API. This API is a new way for developers to interact with their Forms utilizing JavaScript to implement custom logic, get and set values, and much more. For full disclosure and transparency, at the time […]
Read MoreShattering Headless WordPress Build Times with Astro’s Content Layer API
Like many headless WordPress developers, in the last year I have made the switch to building front ends with Astro. Marketing itself as “The web framework for content-driven websites,” Astro has emerged as – in my opinion – the best way to build websites today. Why Use Astro for Headless WordPress? What makes Astro so […]
Read MoreCustom Post Types for Headless WordPress with Atlas Content Modeler
Atlas Content Modeler is a plugin to build Custom Post Types visually as content Models, and makes them immediately available to query using WordPress’s REST API or the GraphQL API enabled with WPGraphQL. This means we can introduce Custom Post Types to our projects for content management across any type of page, or even build them for individual components.
Read MoreHeadless 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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