Headless WordPress - Should you use it?

In this episode Steffen and Dominik are discussing headless and static WordPress, explaining the motivations behind using a static site generator over a traditional PHP server. While they acknowledge the hype around headless systems, they emphasizes that the need for static sites is often more important and that there are tools available, both WordPress-specific and general, to generate static sites. Highlights 00:00 Intro 01:11 Static WordPress 03:50 Headless WordPress 06:16 Making a WordPress website static 09:46 Concept & advantages of a headless website 12:40 Data modeling in WordPress 16:11 Challenges with headless 18:55 Advantages of headless 33:38 Should you go headless? Links Simply Static: https://simplystatic.com/ GraphQL: https://graphql.org/ Andy Bell - The loud minority: https://andy-bell.co.uk/the-extremely-loud-minority/ Contentful: https://www.contentful.com/ Next.js: https://nextjs.org/ Astro: https://astro.build/ WP Engine Atlas: https://wpengine.com/headless-wordpress/ Faust.js: https://faustjs.org/ Flynt Starter Theme: https://flyntwp.com/