Moving forward in WordPress
summary
Argues WordPress works best as a backend platform, not a walled garden, and demonstrates real projects: a GitHub-hosted site using a React front end that pulls data from WordPress, a restaurant dashboard (Happytables) aggregating POS and orders, Nomadbase collecting check‑ins from multiple APIs, and a Slack bot exposing site data. Recommends learning JavaScript, using custom post types plus the WP REST API, and designing systems where WordPress stores and serves data while modern front ends handle UX.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:43Web jobs and expectations
- 3:40Interactive web experiences
- 6:50WordPress closed ecosystem
- 8:17WordPress in larger ecosystem
- 10:27Publishing to application platform
- 11:53Decoupled WordPress with React
- 12:55WordPress for dashboards and tools
- 14:42Custom post types and REST API
- 15:47WordPress as application platform
- 16:50WordPress with JavaScript and vision
- 18:39WordPress with Slack bot
- 19:42Conclusion
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