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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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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 […]
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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.
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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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I wanted to see if I could peel the onion back another layer and build a headless WordPress website without Gatsby. Gatsby is a React framework that provides a plethora of great tools for building modern websites, including connecting to WordPress as a headless CMS, and I am used to letting it perform a lot of the heavy lifting.
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This means that we can query it with GraphQL in our application, and therefore use it in pages we render at build time with Static Site Generation. While this is useful for a number of applications, giving us the tools to create interfaces for nearly any data source, I was curious: could I use this method to build my own data sourcing for Headless WordPress?
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