Having a Headless CMS gives us a lot of flexibility for how we build apps and display content, but with our frontend decoupled from our backend, it won’t automatically stay up to date. To fix this, we can use Next.js Incremental Static Regeneration to keep our content fresh with configurable cache invalidation. What is a...
Media optimization is a critical part of delivering performant apps, but when dealing with a headless CMS like WordPress, at what point do you integrate for a great developer experience? We can use the Cloudinary WordPress plugin to easily provide blanket optimization of any type of WordPress site, headless or not. Note: if you’re currently...
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...
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...
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? What is SEO? SEO,...
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...