Category: Headless CMS

Articles about Headless CMS and Headless WordPress

Why Is Headless WordPress Trending?

Marketers are infamous for jumping on trends. Good marketers investigate them first. Whether it’s fashion, up-and-coming authors, or the hottest TikTok challenge, marketers love to find ways to make trends work for their company or brand. For the past few years, website design and development...

Is Headless WordPress the Right Solution for You?

It’s 2021, and WordPress is only growing in popularity, representing as much as 41.4% of all websites! If you are in the market to make a new website, perhaps you should consider Headless WordPress. Because of the recent developments of Next.JS and...

Custom Post Type UI Supports WPGraphQL

In case you are not aware, our awesome engineers at WebDevStudios (WDS) are losing their heads. No, we haven’t been offending the Queen of Hearts. I’m talking about Headless WordPress and the possibilities presented by this method of content delivery, without being...

Quick Tip: Sharing Data in Next.js with React Context

The React Context API is a data store that provides functionality for accessing data at the component level without passing it down through the application as props. I like to think of Context as “global” props or state that can be directly...

Quick Tip: Add Custom Meta Fields to GraphQL

One of WordPress’ greatest strengths, at least in my opinion, is its ability to function as a general-purpose content management system. This is usually done through custom post types and custom meta fields. Putting them onto the website is as easy as...

Using Next.js, WebDevStudios Built a 1,000 Page Headless WordPress Website

Last spring, I started dabbling with Next.js and it didn’t take long for “dabbling” to turn into, “Whoa! This is awesome!” I found myself totally immersed. A big part of that immersion is the simplicity of Next.js. For me, it has the...

Headless WordPress and Headless CMS

What is a Headless CMS? The terms Headless WordPress and Headless Content Management Systems (Headless CMS) have continued to rise on Google trends the last few years, spiking last summer during the height of pandemic, as small businesses all over the world...

Headless WordPress: Making Your Own API Endpoints

So you want to learn how to start making your own WordPress API endpoints? Great! Today we will be taking a dive into what it takes to write our own restful API endpoints for WordPress starting from the basics and working our...

Headless WordPress: Deeper Dive API Primer and How to Post to Other Platforms

Do you have content you want to write once but share everywhere? Headless WordPress (also known as WordPress API) may just be the answer for you! If you aren’t familiar with what Headless WordPress is, check out the article I wrote titled...

Headless WordPress: Taking Posts Anywhere

What Does Headless WordPress Mean? WordPress as a content management system (CMS) is a platform for creating and managing your digital content. Your digital content can take the form of blog posts, events, products, team members, locations, and essentially anything you consider...