Getting Started with Headless WordPress

New to headless WordPress and not sure where to start?

Building API-driven WordPress experiences can empower developers to deliver new and exciting experiences for their clients and expand their offerings. While some developers make the choice to go fully headless or decoupled, all developers can benefit from understanding how to build WordPress experiences using API-driven patterns. Whether you’re a seasoned WordPress developer interested in expanding to headless or a web developer looking to learn about WordPress, this session will give you the tools to leverage the potential of building headless WordPress sites.

Join Grace Erixon and Fran Agulto from the Developer Relations team at WP Engine for an introductory session on the fundamentals of headless WordPress. We will start with a basic React app and use data from WordPress, ACF, and WPGraphQL to create a single page app powered by WordPress.

By the end of this session, you should be able to:
Understand the key components of a headless architecture: the API layer, the frontend, and the backend
Set up a headless WordPress backend
Model custom types of data in ACF and expose that data in WPGraphQL
Fetch data from the WordPress backend using WPGraphQL
Use data from WordPress to render dynamic UI components using React and Faust.js
Deploy your headless project using the Atlas platform