Next.js WordPress Starter

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• How to Automate Deployments on Content Change in WordPress with WP Webhooks and Netlify

  WordPress and JavaScript-based frameworks like Next.js and Gatsby make powerful combos, delivering a great CMS editing experience with a fast and performant front end, but if we’re using WordPress headlessly, we don’t automatically have a mechanism to trigger a new deploy. How can we take advantage of web hooks to make sure our websites are […]

• How to improve your development experience with the ESLint extension

  Linters are great tools for the development process helping you quickly find problems in your code. In the case of Javascript, ESLint has become one of the most popular tools and can be integrated into your IDE as well as one step in your continuous integration pipeline. But in addition to that you could take […]

• How to Add Custom Fields in Headless WordPress with ACF & WPGraphQL

  WordPress is King CMS for a reason. It provides a great editing experience and is well known for those who consider themselves technical or not. But with a default installation, the content you can manage is a bit limited. How can we extend that with custom fields via ACF and use that data when querying […]

• Exposing WordPress Data Without the Markup

  Before Gutenberg, WordPress relied on a WYSIWYG editor. This had lots of buttons to add tables, quotes or other specifically formatted content. As time went on, content got more complex. There were more options and styling components was achieved by context menus and code. This wasn’t a great experience for the content editor. Sites began […]

• How to Manage SEO in Headless WordPress with Yoast SEO and WPGraphQL

  SEO is a critical part of any website or application. Without it, Google might not be able to find your page or it might not look right in search results or social platforms. How can we leverage popular WordPress plugin Yoast SEO using a headless WordPress instance with Next.js and WPGraphQL? Note: this was originally […]

• How to Create a Headless WordPress Blog with Next.js WordPress Starter

  Blogs are a great way to get down your thoughts to help others learn, keep track of progress, or even to help reinforce an idea to help yourself learn. WordPress is a popular blog platform that’s been around for a while and Next.js is a modern popular web framework for building React apps. How can […]