In my last post, we’ve added the comments area to our single post page. This included the comments list, along with the comments form. Remember we’re still working with the framework Next.js and WordPress REST API. But what good is a form if all we get is junk? What is stopping bots from spamming our […]

Now that we’ve got our basic single component (named [slug].js), which displays a single post, let’s look at how easy it is to add the comments area. First, let’s build 2 components: 1) CommentList.js and 2) CommentForm.js. In Next.js, when creating components that doesn’t use a route – we place them in the “components” directory. […]

Still working with Next.js and WordPress here – as described in my previous post. I’m at the single post now, and as it turned out – it’s really easy to build the basic functionality. So in Next.js – you simply add a component in the “Pages” directory to “route” the requests. For dynamic routes – […]

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 […]