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Tech Roundup Week Ending February 17

ByMike Demopoulos February 17, 2023February 17, 2023

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-6-2-beta-2-released-with-fixes-for-71-issues-and-important-performance-improvements-for-block-themes WordPress 6.2 Beta 2 has been officially released. The new update features improved code security, accessibility options, and even more user-friendly theme customization tools. With these changes, WordPress is making it easier for developers and non-technical users to create powerful websites quickly and easily. Additionally, the new version includes a variety of improvements to…

Business | Development | Notes | WooCommerce

The fastest (headless) WooCommerce on earth…

ByDan Knauss August 30, 2022August 30, 2022

So they say. Specifically, David Mainayar said in Woo Weekly #399 that it’s the fastest he’s seen, and I imagine he’s seen a lot.

Version 0.8 of the GraphQL API…

ByDan Knauss July 23, 2021August 15, 2022

Version 0.8 of the GraphQL API for WordPress is now available. This is a big release with potential for “breaking changes,” so be careful if you are updating. In 0.8, the codebase was refactored to enable extensions, further satisfy the GraphQL specification, complete the GraphQL schema, and support WordPress 5.8.

Business | Design | Hosting | WordPress Community | WordPress News

Footnotes #456

ByDan Knauss July 23, 2021August 16, 2022

Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms of business and product acquisitions, key investments and hires … it says A LOT about…

DAVID’S PICKS Video Picks 📺 Here…

ByDan Knauss July 2, 2021August 15, 2022

DAVID‘S PICKS Video Picks 📺 Here are David’s video picks: 4 real client scenarios (GDPR compliant) who have adopted self-hosted CRM solutions to run their businesses.: Paul Tobey shares four real (GDPR compliant) scenarios with clients who have adopted self-hosted CRM solutions to run their businesses. Shanjidah Afroz: End-to-end testing using CodeceptJS: At the recent…

Renato Alves explains why GraphQL and…

ByDan Knauss April 20, 2021

Renato Alves explains why GraphQL and WordPress work well together: “…to author a GraphQL API you only need a one-time effort…. and another advantage of using GraphQL is its ease of integration with multiple data sources.” There are some downsides, however. There are some “rough-edges” (like caching), access control, and a “steep learning curve.” Migrating…

Leonardo Losoviz explores why you might…

ByDan Knauss April 9, 2021

Leonardo Losoviz explores why you might want to support “CMS-agnosticism” using the GraphQL API for WordPress plugin and the 91 PHP packages it contains. 📦

Dan Hacks compares REST with GraphQL…

ByDan Knauss March 16, 2021

Dan Hacks compares REST with GraphQL and gRPC in this guide to each with their pros and cons. Dan shows how each would be used in the typical case of retrieving a user.

Mike Jolley explains how he created…

ByDan Knauss March 1, 2021

Mike Jolley explains how he created a login system for a ReactJS app using WordPress and WP GraphQL. Mike described his work as: “a GraphQL mutation which accepts login credentials and logs users in using a custom cookie, and we’ve set CORS headers so the browser allows the cookies to be used…. we can now…

Leonardo Losoviz asks, should WordPress should…

ByDan Knauss March 1, 2021

Leonardo Losoviz asks, should WordPress should have a GraphQL API in core? Would WordPress be better off with both REST and GraphQL APIs for developers to choose from? 💬 Tell us what you think or jump right into the discussion in our #development channel.

Leonardo Losoviz says GraphQL can “rejuvenate”…

ByDan Knauss February 17, 2021

Leonardo Losoviz says GraphQL can “rejuvenate” the WordPress data model. ⚡

Design

Leonardo Losoviz describes how to implement…

ByDan Knauss January 28, 2021

Leonardo Losoviz describes how to implement a GraphQL server with components in PHP. He starts by defining components, and then he describes “the architectural design of the GraphQL server in PHP GraphQL by PoP, which uses components as a data structure instead of graphs.”

Leonardo Losoviz thoughtfully explores the question…

ByDan Knauss January 22, 2021

Leonardo Losoviz thoughtfully explores the question of whether the GraphQL API for WordPress plugin establishes a bridge between the two paradigms: Can the WordPress philosophy that depends on server-side architecture co-exist with a JavaScript-based query language that passes data via an API? More fundamentally, Leonardo notes how WordPress represents the prioritization of user needs over…

Security

Joe Howard explains at Torque how…

ByDan Knauss August 12, 2020

Joe Howard explains at Torque how to begin developing headless WordPress sites. The main advantages are flexibility and control, easier multi-channel content publishing, and better security and speed. 👤🪓 Joe names three tools to help you get started: GraphQL API, GatsbyJS Framework, and Static Fuse‘s Gatsby themes and plugins.

Renato Alves shared on Twitter that…

ByDan Knauss November 26, 2019

Renato Alves shared on Twitter that the BuddyPress team has added basic support for the Groups component to the BuddyPress GraphQL schema, which is available on GitHub. Now it has “all the goodies” you need “to get groups, or a group, delete/update/create, pagination, and permissions.”