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Direct link to the article Just How Niche is Headless WordPress?
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Just How Niche is Headless WordPress?

I wonder where headless WordPress will land. And by “headless” I mean only using the WordPress admin and building out the user-facing site through the WordPress REST API rather than the traditional WordPress theme structure.

Is it… big? The future …

Chris Coyier on Jun 15, 2021
Direct link to the article CSS-Trickz: An Experiment with Netlify’s On-Demand Builders
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CSS-Trickz: An Experiment with Netlify’s On-Demand Builders

WordPress sites have an API by default. Wanna see this site’s most recent posts, with just a specific set of data… in JSON format? Here ya go. Alex Riviere made a joke site using that.

At first, the site …

Chris Coyier on Jun 8, 2021
Direct link to the article Remote Control WordPress at Scale
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Remote Control WordPress at Scale

This is the third and final article in a series on “remote control WordPress”. That’s my nickname for this strategy of managing network settings on one “control” install, and then pulling those values into all your client installs. The advantage …

Scott Fennell on Jul 27, 2016 Updated on Nov 3, 2016
Direct link to the article OAuth Fun with OAuth1
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OAuth Fun with OAuth1

This is the second article in a three-part series about using the WP API to achieve something I’m calling “Remote Control WordPress”, a lifestyle where you’d manage network settings on a “control” install, and have other “client” installs pull their …

Scott Fennell on Jul 21, 2016 Updated on Nov 3, 2016
Direct link to the article The WP REST API for Remote Control WordPress
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The WP REST API for Remote Control WordPress

At my day job, we have about 1,000 sites spread across 30 WordPress multisite installs. The installs all run many of the same plugins and settings, especially at the network level. This causes a lot of wasted time for …

Scott Fennell on Jul 13, 2016 Updated on Nov 14, 2022
Direct link to the article Using the WP-API to Fetch Posts
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Using the WP-API to Fetch Posts

It may be news to you, but there is a nifty resource called Quotes on Design that serves up interesting quotes about design, curated by our very own Chris Coyier.

Up to this point, Quotes on Design (QoD) …

Andy Adams on May 6, 2015 Updated on Nov 13, 2019
Direct link to the article Thoughts on an API-First WordPress
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Thoughts on an API-First WordPress

The following is a guest post by Eduardo Bouças. We all know WordPress is a CMS, but here Eduardo thinks about using it only as an API for content. No front end at all, just URL endpoints that …

Eduardo Bouças on Apr 21, 2015 Updated on Nov 3, 2016

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