Building a Headless WordPress Site with Gatsby

WordPress, the powerful publishing platform, powers much of the web. Gatsby allows developers to build performance-focused, modern websites and applications with React. In this course, discover how to combine this dynamic duo to get a web publishing powerhouse. Join instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen as he explains how to use WordPress to populate a Gatsby site. He shows you the plugins you need to use WordPress data in a Gatsby site, then demonstrates how to connect WordPress and Gatsby. He covers how to create a variety of custom menus, including a nested menu and a footer menu. He demonstrates how Gatsby can be configured to generate new pages based on WordPress posts. Morten goes over how you can query categories and tags, as well as how to generate index pages for each category of the WordPress site. He walks you through how to access custom data through GraphQL and use it in your Gatsby site, then concludes by explaining how to deal with WordPress blocks when working in Gatsby.

About the Author

Morten Rand-Hendriksen is a web designer and developer. Morten has a passion for clean design, standards-based code, and open-source software like WordPress. He has published several books, articles, and videos on these topics and is a popular speaker at conferences. Running a small boutique-style digital media company, he divides his time evenly between building web solutions and teaching others how to do things right and get the most out of the web. Morten grew up in Norway and made Canada his home in 2002.

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 2h 25m
• Instructor: Morten Rand-Hendriksen