{"id":1896,"date":"2019-07-01T21:22:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T12:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/n8finch2024.local\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2019-10-20T06:41:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T21:41:55","slug":"hello-gatsby-this-blog-is-now-headless-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n8finch2024.local\/hello-gatsby-this-blog-is-now-headless-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Gatsby! This blog is now headless WordPress&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, I did it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I jumped on the Gatsby bandwagon, and it seems pretty great so far!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, there&#8217;s been a very nice bump in overall site performance and experience (Chrome Lighthouse audits):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1452\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/fps\/image\/upload\/v1561984691\/GatsbyPre_omnckl.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1898\"\/><figcaption>Before: Previously using the Atomic Blocks theme, shared hosting environment.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1394\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/fps\/image\/upload\/h_153,w_905\/v1562040693\/GatsbyPWA_lrvyzo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1908\"\/><figcaption>After: Using Gatsby, Gatsby Tabor Theme, Gatsby site hosted on Netlify&#8230; and a PWA to boot!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m planning to make a quick video of my experience and update this post with it, but I wanted to share what I did here, for reference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Disclaimer: <\/strong>I don&#8217;t recommend moving your front-end to Gatsby and using WordPress as an API unless you&#8217;re working with a developer. I&#8217;m sure that WPAABES (WordPress as a back end service, you heard it here!) will be available with themes to choose from soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steps I Took to Move to Gatsby<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>I read <a href=\"\/learning-react-so-i-can-i-can-hang-out-with-other-things\">a LOT of articles<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"documentation (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/gatsby.org\/docs\" target=\"_blank\">documentation<\/a> in prep for this.<\/li><li>I moved my WordPress blog install over to &#x26a1; <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Pantheon (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/pantheon.io\" target=\"_blank\">Pantheon<\/a><\/strong> &#x26a1;, which allows for a few free development sites on their <em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">amazing<\/span><\/strong><\/em> hosting and infrastructure at no charge. For the purposes of moving to Gatsby, it creates a separate endpoint outside of my main website to build the Gatsby site from. Pretty slick &#x1f60e;.<\/li><li>Followed the setup instructions for the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Gatsby Tabor Theme (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/zgordon\/tabor-gatsby-theme\" target=\"_blank\">Gatsby Tabor Theme<\/a> setup (note, read the issues on this repo, the workspace is <code>site<\/code> and not <code>starter<\/code>).<\/li><li>Switched out all the occurrences of the sample domain for my own in the <code>gatsby-config.js<\/code> files. At this point, I was able to run <code>yarn workspace site develop<\/code> and all my content was pulled into my local Gatsby site. Amazing! <strong>Note:<\/strong> make sure your theme&#8217;s menu is PRIMARY, otherwise you&#8217;ll get build errors, see <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"this article (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/javascriptforwp.com\/porting-the-twenty-nineteen-wordpress-theme-to-gatsby\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>.<\/li><li>I had some mixed content warnings, probably from years ago before HTTPS was standard. A quick find and replace in my database fixed that.<\/li><li>Moved my images to Cloudinary.<\/li><li>There was also an issue with site internal links: WordPress by default uses full URLs, including my domain (e.g. https:\/\/n8finch.com\/whatever-post instead of the relative \/whatever-post). So, I ran a quick SQL find-and-replace in the <code>post_content<\/code> column of the <code>wp_posts<\/code> table (<strong>Note: <\/strong>only do this if you know what you&#8217;re doing, are not working with serialized data, and have a backup):<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">UPDATE wp_posts<br>\nSET    post_content = replace(post_content, 'https:\/\/n8finch.com\/', '\/');<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Switch out the Dribbble icon for a Github icon<\/li><li>Fixed an issue on the posts archive page with SEO, filed a Pull Request for it as well, #opensource!!!<\/li><li>Easily and quickly deployed to Netlify from the repo.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And that was basically it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things I&#8217;m still working out&#8230;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><s>I tried to add a manifest to the site to make it a PWA, but got an incompatibility error, and needed to update the GatsbyJS version. However, updating Gatsby broke a lot of other things, so I went ahead and rolled back (and silently thanked the WordPress community that seems to have gotten past a lot of these update-and-break issues!).<\/s> Turns out I didn&#8217;t need to update Gatsby core for the manifest to work!<\/li><li><s>There is currently no favicon for the site, probably related to the manifest<\/s> I finally got the icon in the right spot of the public file&#8230; &#x1f606;, only took me 9 attempts!!<\/li><li>There&#8217;s no comments on the site anymore. I knew that going into this. I don&#8217;t have a ton of comments, but there are a few I wanted to preserve. Not sure if I will transfer things to Disqus, code something up, just leave them off.<\/li><li>I&#8217;m using this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Netlify deploy plugin (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/webhook-netlify-deploy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Netlify deploy plugin<\/a>, which works great, but is a manual process, I&#8217;ll probably fork it, add in a hook to deploy on publishing a post\/page (and maybe updating a post\/page?).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Other than that, I couldn&#8217;t be happier. Gatsby is a great tool to work with. I will probably roll my own theme, or regular Gatsby install soon, especially since Gatsby Themes are not production ready. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been fun, just what web dev should be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I did it. I jumped on the Gatsby bandwagon, and it seems pretty great so far! 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