A deep dive into headless WordPress and Jamstack | Anindo Neel Dutta | PHPCamp

This session explores the powerful combination of *Headless WordPress* and *Jamstack* architecture, highlighting how the decoupled approach can revolutionize how websites are built and delivered.

By separating the front-end and back-end, developers can leverage WordPress as a headless Content Management System (CMS) to manage content while using modern JavaScript frameworks and static site generators to render content in a highly performant, secure, and scalable manner.

The presentation begins by introducing the fundamentals of headless WordPress and explaining how it differs from traditional WordPress. In a headless setup, WordPress handles only the content management aspect, and the front-end is decoupled, meaning it is built using separate technologies like React, Vue, or Angular. This allows developers to take full control of the design, structure, and functionality of the front-end, while content editors still enjoy the familiar WordPress admin interface.

Next, we delve into the core principles of **Jamstack**—JavaScript, APIs, and Markup—and how this modern web architecture enhances the capabilities of a headless WordPress setup. Jamstack’s approach enables the pre-rendering of static pages during build time, utilizing API calls to fetch dynamic content from WordPress and then deploying these static files to a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for global distribution.

This architecture results in fast, responsive websites with minimal server load and high security, as static files eliminate the need for direct database interactions.

The session covers the technical implementation of connecting Jamstack frameworks like *Next.js* and *Gatsby* to WordPress using REST APIs or GraphQL

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