Scaling WordPress with the power of Next.js and the static web!
yarn create next-app -e https://github.com/colbyfayock/next-wordpress-starter
# or
npx create-next-app -e https://github.com/colbyfayock/next-wordpress-starterAdd an .env.local file to the root with the following:
WORDPRESS_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT="http://wordpressite.com/graphql"
The goal of this project is to take WordPress as a headless CMS and use Next.js to create a static experience that can be deployed anywhere.
The hope is to build out as many features as we can to support what's typically expected from an out of the box theme on WordPress. Currently, those features include:
- Top-level Page (https://next-wordpress-starter.netlify.app/docs/)
- Post (https://next-wordpress-starter.netlify.app/posts/voluptas-in-nemo-eaque-tempora-sit-quisquam/)
- All Posts (https://next-wordpress-starter.netlify.app/posts/)
- Author (https://next-wordpress-starter.netlify.app/authors/colby/)
- Search (Global navigation and https://next-wordpress-starter.netlify.app/search/?q=sit)
- Category (https://next-wordpress-starter.netlify.app/categories/lorem/)
- RSS (https://next-wordpress-starter.netlify.app/feed.xml)
- Sitemap (https://next-wordpress-starter.netlify.app/sitemap.xml)
Additionally, the theme is expected to be SEO friendly and performant out of the box, including:
- Unique page titles
- Unique descriptions
- Open Graph tags
Check out the Issues for what's on deck!
This project makes use of WPGraphQL to query WordPress with GraphQL. In order to make that request to the appropriate endpoint, we need to set a environment variable to let Next.js know where to request the site information from.
Create a new file locally called .env.local and add the following:
WORDPRESS_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT="[WPGraphQL Endpoint]"Replace [host] with your the home URL of your WordPress instance.
To start the project locally, run:
yarn dev
# or
npm run devThe project should now be available at http://localhost:3000!
In order to avoid an additional configuration file, we take advantage of some built-in properties of package.json to configure parts of the website.
- homepage: Setting the
homepageproperty will update instances where the full URL is required such as Open Graph tags
This project aims to take advantage of as many built-in WordPress features by default. Those include:
- Site Title: Used for the homepage header as well as page metadata
- Tagline: Used on the homepage for the header subtitle
- Site Language: Used on the
<html>tag to set thelangattribute
There is some specific WordPress configuration required to allow for the best use of this starter.
By default, this Starter doesn't provide any mechanisms for dealing with image content from WordPress. The images are linked to "as is", meaning if the image is uploaded via the WordPress interface, the image will be served from WordPress.
To serve the images statically, you have a few options.
By enabling the Image Accelerator from Jetpack, your images will automatically be served statically and cached via the wp.com CDN. This feature comes free with the basic installation of Jetpack, requiring only that you connect the WordPress site to the Jetpack service.
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
 Colby Fayock 💻 📖 |
 Kevin Cunningham 💻 |
 Guillermo Angulo 💻 |
 Hein Snyman 💻 |
 Grische 🔧 |
 Jatin Rathee 💻 |
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!