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- 2. Headless and Brainless WP
- 3. Ben Moore WP Engine CXO BI Dev SkyPress FOO Student of Life BMO
- 4. “ WordPress is a CMS like Amazon is just an e-commerce store WordPress is a blogging platform like Google is just Search Engine
- 5. Let’s Build More WordPress + JavaScript + Rest API
- 6. More With WordPress ● User Management ● Database Abstraction ● Template Engine ● Extendable
- 7. More With JavaScript ● Dynamic Content ● Mobile Applications ● Web Applications ● User Interaction
- 8. More With Rest API ● All the Data ● Cross Platform ● Discoverable ● Scalable
- 11. Common Process
- 14. “ Let the Back-end Back Let the Front-end Front
- 15. Buzzword Alert
- 17. Headless WP Pros ● WP API for Data ● Front End Agnostic ● Multiple Sources Cons ● No WP Functionality ● Multiple Hosts ● Maintain Everything
- 18. New Buzzword
- 19. Drupal Twitter Facebook Node SoundCloud Brainless WP WordPress + REST API User Auth DB Abstraction Localized Data Static Assets WordPress Brainless Example: github.com/SkyPressATX/war-api
- 20. Brainless WP Pros ● WP Functionality ● Render “shell” ● Use JS Framework Cons ● No Native Apps ● WP Tech Stack Brainless Example: github.com/SkyPressATX/war-api
- 21. Brainless WordPress Functionality JS everywhere else Rest API for Data Headless You Break it You Buy it No WordPress Functionality Potential for Multiple Hosts
- 23. ● Out of the Box ● Design for the Majority ● Decisions, not Options ● Clean, Lean, and Mean ● Striving for Simplicity ● Deadlines Are Not Arbitrary ● The Vocal Minority https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/ WordPress Philosophy
- 24. Ben Moore skypress.io Twitter: @bmo_tv Email: bmo@skypress.io Github: SkyPressATX/war-api BMO Imogen Theme available at SlidesCarnival