Headless WordPress

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.
  • Part 1: Login with JWT.
  • Part 2: Updating User Settings.
  • Part 3: Notices System.
  • Part 4: Uploading with DropZone.
  • Part 5: Google Login with JWT.
  • Displaying a Single Article. 1/2020.
• 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.
  • Part 1.
  • Part 2.
• 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.

Other

• Static and Headless JAMstack Tools for WordPress. strattic.