WP Calypso First Impression

WP Calypso is the newest addition to Automattic’s open source projects. It took both the WordPress and the web communities by storm this week — everyone is talking and writing about it now. But what it really is? Does it deserve the attention it gets? I was surprised when I first heard about Calypso on Monday. Even …

React single-page WordPress REST API theme tutorial

Uh-oh, such a buzz-wordy title. I know, I know. But it’s true — I’m going to publish a series of articles on building a simple single-page WordPress theme powered by React, WP REST API, and other bleeding-edge front-end technologies. The tutorial will be focused primarily on the JavaScript things, pushing design, accessibility and flexibility sideways. …

Front-end development with WordPress

Although WordPress is created in PHP, nowadays, a lot of themes and plugins make use of JavaScript to create feature-rich, responsive, client-side sites. Some go as far as to use WordPress only as a store of data, making the whole site a single page (SPA) and everything in JavaScript. The WP REST API project, which …