Creative Tech Blog

Gatsby Theme for Creative Tech Blog powered by headless WordPress JAM stack.

Author

• @LouieChristie

Deploy

yarn deploy

It will build the site and deploy it to the gh-pages branch on Github.

Based on Gatsby Starter Wordpress Twenty Twenty Theme

A port of the WordPress Twenty Twenty theme to Gatsby.

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This starter uses Gatsby V3 and the new gatsby-source-wordpress@v5. You can find documentation for that package here.

Checkout some options of the source plugin: plugin-options.md

Plugin Versions

Last tested with the following plugin versions.

• WPGraphQL: 1.3.5
• WPGatsby: 1.0.8
• gatsby-source-wordpress: 5.5.0
• gatsby-plugin-image: 1.5.0

WordPress Setup

1. Make sure to install the two required WP plugins wp-gatsby and wp-graphql
2. Best you install and activate the default WordPress Twenty Twenty theme
3. Make sure you have Menus with the following slugs:
   • primary - Thats the top menu
   • extended - That is the menu that opens on the right side as drawer
   • social-links-menu - For the Social menu in the footer and in the expanded drawer
     • For the social Icons you need to adjust SocialMenu.js. There is a SocialIcon function that parses svgs depending on the Link label
4. Rename .env.example file to .env and edit it with your domain variables. Make sure to fill all variables properly.
   • WPGRAPHQL_URL - Your GraphQL endpoint
   • SITE_URL - Your frontend domain (without ending slash) to stitch together SEO relevant image urls.

Limitations

• Comments are not implemented yet.

• The monthly archive pages are not implemented.

• Tags are not implemented (only Categories).

• Surely there is more. Feel free to suggest things as issues.

  • For the social Icons you need to adjust SocialMenu.js. There is a SocialIcon function that parses svgs depending on the Link label

4. Copy .env.example file to .env and change Environment variables to location to your WordPress instance

• gatsby-source-wordpress (v5)
• WPGatsby - WordPress Plugin
• Twenty Twenty - WordPress Theme

Acknowledgements

• NeverNull GmbH - The team I'm working with. Checkout what we are building here: mobileui.dev
• @TylerBarnes - Head developer of gatsby-source-wordpress@v4
• @JasonBahl - Head developer of WPGraphQL
• @LouieChristie - Open source contributor