What is Headless WordPress?
- John Hughes. What is Headless WordPress (And Do You Need It)? elegant themes, 2019.
- Sufyan bin Uzayr. Using WordPress as a Headless CMS. sitepoint, 2018.
- Includes a basic code example.
- Gatsby required its own page, see everything I know about WP and Gatsby here.
- Jason Lengstorf. Migrate Your WordPress Site to the Jamstack. netlify, 3/2020.
- Igor Benic. Headless WordPress.
- Scott Anderson. Headless WordPress: Making Your Own API Endpoints. webdevstudios, 8/2020.
- Scott Anderson. Headless WordPress: Deeper Dive API Primer and How to Post to Other Platforms. webdevstudios, 7/2020.
- Joe Howard. How to Begin Your Journey Developing Headless WordPress Sites. torque, 7/2020.
- Nick Schaferhoff. Headless WordPress: What Is It and How to Use It. torque, 5/2020.
- John Hughes. How to Setup a Headless WordPress Website (in 3 Steps). themeisle, 5/2020.
- Mathieu Dionne. Getting Started with WordPress Static Site Generators. snipcart, 7/2020.
Using React and Next.js
- Jo Murgel. Headless WordPress with React and NextJS. 1/2019.
- Resi Respati. Headless WordPress + Next.js — What We Learned. kata.ai, 2018.
- Ibad Ur Rehman. Use WordPress with React to Create Headless CMS for Your Web Application. cloudways, 2/2020.
Using Vue and Nuxt.js
- Sarah Drasner & Geoff Graham. How To Create a Headless WordPress Site on the JAMstack. smashing magazine, 2020.
- Uses WP as the CMS (via REST API) and Vue with Nuxt on Netlify.
- Maxime Laboissonniere. Build a Vue.js SPA on Top of Headless WordPress. snipcart, 3/2019.
Static, But Not Headless
- John Hughes. How to Generate a Static HTML Copy of Your WordPress Website. elegant themes, 2018.
- Gillian Rickerd. Deploy a Static WordPress Using AWS & Cloudflare. atomicobject, 4/2019.
- Koen Schaft. Simply Static Deploy: static site generator and deploy plugin for WordPress. grrr.tech, 1/2020.
Plugins for Headless
- WP Headless CMS Framework (Benjamin Moody) – Last Updated: 10 mos. – Active Installs: 80+ – Last Checked: 1/2021.
- Allows one to enable JSON Web Token Authentication, add Gutenberg bock data to REST responses, protect REST requests with nonce, clean up REST response objects, remove non-required REST endpoints, and can disable the frontend.