Next.js WordPress Starter Scaling WordPress with the power of Next.js and the static web! ?? Quick Start ?? Getting Started ?? Configuring Your Project ?? Plugins ?? Sponsors ? Contributors ?? Quick Start Requirements WordPress WPGraphQL Environment variables (see below) yarn create next-app -e https://github.com/colbyfayock/next-wordpress-starter # or npx create-next-app -e https://github.com/colbyfayock/next-wordpress-starter Add an .env.local file to the root with the following: WORDPRESS_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT="http://wordpressite.com/graphql" In some cases, the above may not work. Change it as follows: WORDPRESS_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT="http://yourhost.com/index.php?graphql ?? Getting Started What is this and what does it include? The goal of this project is to take WordPress as a headless CMS and use Next.js to create a static experience without any 3rd party services 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: Blog ( https://next-wordpress-starter.spacejelly.dev ) Pages ( https://next-wordpress-starter.spacejelly.dev/about/ ) Posts ( https://next-wordpress-starter.spacejelly.dev/posts/how-to-create-a-headless-wordpress-blog-with-next-js-wordpress-starter/ ) Categories ( https://next-wordpress-starter.spacejelly.dev/categories/tutorial/ ) Authors ( https://next-wordpress-starter.spacejelly.dev/authors/colby-fayock/ ) Search (Client side global navigation and https://next-wordpress-starter.spacejelly.dev/search/?q=wordpress ) RSS ( https://next-wordpress-starter.spacejelly.dev/feed.xml ) Sitemap ( https://next-wordpress-starter.spacejelly.dev/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 You can also optionally enable Yoast SEO plugin support to supercharge your SEO! (See below) Check out the Issues for what's on deck! Want something a little more basic ? Check out my other starter with an MVP setup to get up and running with WPGraphQL in WordPress: https://github.com/colbyfayock/next-wpgraphql-basic-starter Requirements WordPress WPGraphQL Environment variables (see below) Environment 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 the contents of the variable with your WPGraphQL endpoint. By default, it should resemble [Your Host]/graphql . Note: environment variables can optionally be statically configured in next.config.js All Environment Variables Name Required Default Description WORDPRESS_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT Yes - WordPress WPGraphQL endpoint (ex: host.com/graphl) WORDPRESS_MENU_LOCATION_NAVIGATION No PRIMARY Configures header navigation Menu Location WORDPRESS_PLUGIN_SEO No false Enables SEO plugin support (true, false) Please note some themes do not have PRIMARY menu location. Development To start the project locally, run: yarn dev # or npm run dev The project should now be available at http://localhost:3000 ! ESLint extension for Visual Studio Code It is possible to take advantage of this extension to improve the development experience. To set up the ESLint extension in Visual Studio Code add a new folder to the root .vscode . Inside add a file settings.json with the following content: { "editor.formatOnSave" : false , "editor.codeActionsOnSave" : { "source.fixAll.eslint" : true } } With this file ESLint will automatically fix and validate syntax errors and format the code on save (based on Prettier configuration). Deployment Netlify There are two options as to how you can deploy this project to Netlify: Essential Next.js Plugin (recommended) Exporting the project via next export Essential Next.js Plugin should be provided as an option when you're first importing a project based on this starter. If it's not, you can install this plugin using the Netlify Plugins directory. This will allow the project to take full advantage of all native Next.js features that Netlify supports with this plugin. Exporting the project lets Next.js compile the project into static assets including HTML files. This allows you to deploy the project as a static site directly to Netlify just like any other site. You can do this by adding next export to the end of the build command inside package.json (ex: next build && next export ). Regardless of which option you choose, you can configure your environment variables either when creating your new site or by navigating to Site Settings > Build & Deploy > Environment and triggering a new deploy once added. Vercel Given Next.js is a Vercel-supported project, you can simply import the project as a new site and configure your environment variables by either adding them during import or by navigating to Settings > Environment Variables and triggering a new build once added. ?? Configuring Your Project package.json 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. Name Required Description homepage Yes Homepage or hostname used to construct full URLs (ex Open Graph) homepage: Setting the homepage property will update instances where the full URL is required such as Open Graph tags WordPress This project aims to take advantage of as many built-in WordPress features by default like a typical WordPress theme. Those include: Name Usage Site Language lang attribute on the <html> tag Site Title Homepage header, page metadata Tagline Homepage subtitle There is some specific WordPress configuration required to allow for the best use of this starter. Images This Starter doesn't currently 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. Jetpack 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. Jetpack CDN ?? Plugins Yoast SEO The Yoast SEO plugin is partially supported including most major features like metadata and open graph customization. Requirements Yoast SEO plugin Add WPGraphQL SEO plugin To enable the plugin, configure WORDPRESS_PLUGIN_SEO to be true either as an environment variable or within next.config.js. ?? Bootstrapped with Next.js WordPress Starter Examples of websites that started off with Next.js WordPress Starter colbyfayock.com spacejelly.dev ?? Sponsors WordPress hosting for the public-facing project provided by WP Engine . ? Contributors Thanks goes to these wonderful people ( emoji key ): Colby Fayock ?? ?? Kevin Cunningham ?? Guillermo Angulo ?? Hein Snyman ?? Grische ?? Jatin Rathee ?? Dave ?? Brad Garropy ?? Fabio Sales ?? Leonardo Losoviz ?? Avneesh Agarwal ?? Phattarapol L. ?? Peter Cruckshank ?? Shane O'Grady ?? Nick Gaswirth ?? alexandruvisan19 ?? Ritik Chourasiya ?? Rick Knowlton ?? Jedidiah Amaraegbu ?? This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
