Configuring WordPress as Headless CMS using REST API with Nextjs

Hello Guys, in today’s blog, we are going to see how we can configure WordPress as Headless CMS using with . REST API Nextjs As we move through future articles in the series, we'll be covering a lot of moving parts to round out the entire process, including: starting a Blog using a Next.js using WordPress as a Headless CMS (REST API) using Next.js I am assuming that you all know how to use Next.js, if you want to know & learn about Next.js, please . Click Here To integrate/configure WordPress CMS into Next.js, we're going to use REST API which is made available by WordPress. Also, we're not going to use . Before diving into this article, if you want to explore WordPress REST API Documentation, . And for this article. we'll be referring to . GraphQL click here this Before running the below command, please make sure that the latest version of is installed (v16+) and also confirm that is also installed and which can be confirmed by running in the terminal for Mac/Linux & cmd for Windows. Node.js create-next-app create-next-app -V Once you get the version number in the output, you can run the following command: npx create-next-app wpDemo Once finished, you'll receive a message saying everything has been successful. Then, you can give a few commands to build, run and start our new app. Let’s check that everything’s working first by typing the following commands in your terminal: cd wpDemo and finally npm run dev or yarn dev What you'll see is a blazing-fast site build, followed by a message that your site has successfully been started at . Open that address in a browser of your choosing and you should see the following page. http://localhost:3000 If you get this page means you have successfully built the Next.js website. Next, we are going to fetch the Posts from WordPress using the method. fetch() Files to Edit Open the file and delete all the boilerplate code except: /pages/index.js Now we will call the WordPress REST API in order to fetch the Blog Posts from WordPress. here we can use to fetch the WordPress Blog Posts, but we'll use the feature & advantages of Next.js which helps for better SEO. So, we'll use , and also note that can only be used with page-based files only not with components. useEffect() getServerSideProps() getServerSideProps() export const getServerSideProps = async () => { const variableName = await fetch('https://your-wp-domain-url.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?_embed&order=desc&per_page=100&status=publish') const variableNameTwo = await variableName.json()

return { props: { variableNameTwo } } } export default function Home (props) { const { variableNameTwo, ...other } = props; return ( ...

) } or you can use like below: useEffect() const PageName = () => { const [ variableNameTwo, setVariableNameTwo] = useState([]);

useEffect(() => { setLoading(true); const fetchBlogData = async () => { const blgData = await fetch( 'https://your-wp-domain-url.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?_embed&order=desc&status=publish' ); const blgJsnData = await blgData.json(); setBlogData(blgJsnData); setLoading(false); };

fetchBlogData(); }, []);

return (

) }

export default PageName; Here, variableNameTwo will be an array that will contain all the post data. Let me describe the parameters I’ve passed along with the URL to get the blog posts from WordPress. : this parameter is used to retrieve the featured images, Author Details, tags, categories, etc. along with the blog post. _embed : we can retrieve the Blog posts based on ascending/descending order, by default it’s in desc order. order : we can define how many posts we need to retrieve in 1 page, by default it’s 10, and the maximum number of posts per page is . per_page 100 : it is used to retrieve the blog posts based on status, e.g. publish or draft, by default, it’s . status published In e, you can iterate on the array and display the required blog data as per your design. and to open the particular single blog on the new page below is the code snippet. componentNam Read More When you click on the Read More button/link, a new page will open with a particular/single blog post, we have to run the below code snippet in order to get the particular/single blog post details. export const getServerSideProps = async (context) => { const { slug } = context.params;

const variableName = await fetch(`https://your-wordpress-website-url/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?_embed&slug=${slug}`); const variableNameTwo = await variabeName.json();

if (variableNameTwo.length === 0) { return { redirect : { destination : '/404', permanent : false } }; }

return { props : { variableNameTwo } }; }; Now you can access the variableNameTwo, inside the page as props, and remember that variableNameTwo will be an array. Below are the code snippets which is used to retrieve the title, description, image, and slug data['title']['rendered'] The above syntax is used to retrieve the blog title. The above code snippet will display the blog content (e.g. description) on the page UI. To access the featured image from WordPress, use the above code snippet. {data['date']} With the above code snippet, you can get the date the blog post was published. {data['_embedded']['author'][0]['name']} With the above code snippet, you can get the name of the author who wrote the blog post. {data['_embedded']['wp:term'][0][0]['name']} With the above code snippet, you can get the name of the category. {data['_embedded']['wp:term'][1].map((tag) => { return ( {tag['name']}

); })} Finally, with the above code snippet, you have to iterate/loop on the in order to get all the tags. [‘wp:term’][1] That’s it for now! Also published here.