Embracing Headless WordPress with Greg Rickaby

Kellen interviews Greg Rickaby, Director of Engineering at WebDevStudios. Greg explains why WebDevStudios embraced headless development (1:30), how an open-source contribution to Next.JS lead to the creation of  WebDevStudios' Next.JS starter kit (9:30), and how WebDevStudios' might utilize Atlas and other technologies in the future (1:13:12).

Links:

• Greg’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregRickaby
• Blog post: Building the Next.js 9.4 WordPress Example
  ​​https://webdevstudios.com/2020/06/02/building-the-nextjs-9-4-wordpress-example/
• Blog post: Using Next.js, WebDevStudios Built a 1,000 Page Headless WordPress Website https://webdevstudios.com/2021/03/09/next-js-headless-wordpress/
• Next.js WordPress Example: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/cms-wordpress
• WDS Next.js WordPress Starter: https://github.com/WebDevStudios/nextjs-wordpress-starter

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