Headless WordPress – Should you use it?

In this episode Steffen and Dominik are discussing headless and static WordPress, explaining the motivations behind using a static site generator over a traditional PHP server. While they acknowledge the hype around headless systems, they emphasizes that the need for static sites is often more important and that there are tools available, both WordPress-specific and general, to generate static sites.

Highlights
00:00 Intro
01:11 Static WordPress
03:50 Headless WordPress
06:16 Making a WordPress website static
09:46 Concept & advantages of a headless website
12:40 Data modeling in WordPress
16:11 Challenges with headless
18:55 Advantages of headless
33:38 Should you go headless?

Links
Simply Static: https://simplystatic.com/
GraphQL: https://graphql.org/
Andy Bell – The loud minority: https://andy-bell.co.uk/the-extremely-loud-minority/
Contentful: https://www.contentful.com/
Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
Astro: https://astro.build/
WP Engine Atlas: https://wpengine.com/headless-wordpress/
Faust.js: https://faustjs.org/
Flynt Starter Theme: https://flyntwp.com/