Say what? Why would I want to use Next.js for the front end for a WordPress website? I’ve already covered a couple of ways to do a single site WordPress – using React or Vue that work just fine. Why “headless”? Why complicate things? Believe it or not, there are plenty of reasons to use […]

Okay its been a while since I last posted. Let’s continue with Barebones React WP theme. The last time we left off, we introduced the concept of “The Loop“. But we really didn’t get into what its all about. Let’s describe what this piece is doing. In WordPress themes – there is the “The Loop“, […]

Now that we have our react app setup, let’s form how our application will be structured. We’re going to need 3 main folders: 1) templates, 2) partials and 3) context. These are all going to be inside react-src/src folder. The templates folder is where we’re going to store the main files template files – namely […]

It’s been a while since I worked with WordPress, especially building themes. This time around, I wanted to bring in a bit more modern development experience into the process. I wanted to build a Single Page Application (SPA), with WordPress’ Rest API – but as a WordPress theme. The problem is, this can be a […]

Form validation is a task that you can’t get away with when building forms. In React, I feel that forms is not its strongest selling point. Although validation is pretty straightforward. Keep in mind that this is a simple technique – where it does the validation on “Submit”, while the error messages are shown in-line […]

In React, data flows unidirectionally. This means that the State becomes the source of truth – especially working with controlled components and forms. Having said that, you will see your form HTML riddled with something like: And in your class, something like: This is to enforce this unidirectional pattern, making the state mutable and can […]