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The Most Popular CMS

Headless

Who Am I?

  • Principal Software Engineer at WP Engine
  • Denver, Colorado
  • WordPress developer for 12+ years
  • I love WordPress, and Open Source in general
  • Creator & maintainer of WPGraphQL

FORTY ONE

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Most Dreaded Platforms

Most Loved Web Frameworks

Developers

Business Owners / Marketers

Let business owners, marketers and content creators use the CMS they're already familiar with & invested in, and let developers use the modern JavaScript frameworks they love.

WordPress

WordPress

WordPress

Headless WordPress

Headless WordPress

Headless WordPress

How?

A free, open-source WordPress plugin that provides an extendable GraphQL schema and API for any WordPress site.

WPGraphQL

Posts

Comments

Pages

Users

Media

Terms

GraphQL

{
     viewer {
          name
     }
}

{

     data: {

          viewer: {

               name: "Jason Bahl"

          }

     }
}

GraphQL Query

GraphQL Result

Post

Category

Category

Category

Post

title

"Hello World"

title

"GoodBye Mars"

Image

Image

Image

name

"news"

name

"crime"

name

"sports"

Image

WordPress as an Application Data Graph

GraphQL

GraphQL lets us pick trees out of the Application Data Graph

GraphQL

query {
  post(id: "cG9zdDox") {
    title
    link
    categories {
      nodes {
        name
      }
    }
  }
}
{
  data: {
    post: {
      title: "Hello World!"
      link: "http://site.com/hello-world"
      categories: {
        nodes: [
          {
            name: "sports"
          },
          {
            name: "crime"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Post

Category

Category

Category

Post

title

"Hello World"

title

"GoodBye Mars"

Image

Image

Image

name

"news"

name

"crime"

name

"sports"

Image

WordPress becomes a data source for any client that can make HTTP requests

https://playground.wpgraphql.com

mutation Submit(
  $input: SubmitFormInput!
) {
  submitForm(input: $input) {
    twitterHandle
  }
}