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Over-And-Under Static WordPress
Proponents of GraphQL interfaces are quick to point out that this approach allows you to easily use WordPress as a headless Content Management System (CMS) with a static site serving as your front end. They’re not wrong. And as a developer, using the WPGraphQL interface is a lovely experience. With this approach, you create something…
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what is a static site generator?
There are lots of static site generators (SSGs) out there these days, coupled to a lot of different headless content management systems (CMSs), using various development frameworks, running with various templating languages, and making life seem a lot more complicated than it probably needs to be. But you may still be scratching your head and…
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On WordPress and Static Site GENERATOR THEMES
In WordPress, you can get lots of potential looks and (to some extent) behaviors just by installing a “WordPress Theme” and activating it within the admin panel of your WordPress instance. This site, PeakZebra, for instance, is running the Extra theme, made by ElegantThemes. It’s based on their Divi page-builder franchise, with page builders being…
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Gatsby rolls out functions, “shifts left”
Gatsby (the company) held a “summer camp” online earlier today and used the occasion to push the new “functions” capability into general availability. Functions is interesting in and of itself, but equally interesting was the way that Gatsby, and product director Dustin Schau (@SchauDustin ) in particular, were talking about what the rollout meant for…
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jamstack needs a new name
What Should Static Site Generators Be Called? The world needed a term for the things that we think of now as “Jamstack,” so I’m not a bit sorry that Netlify cooked it up. But even as it was coined, what was actually out there didn’t fit the term. Some of the front-running static site generators…
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Headless CMS Options: ContentStack
I got a chance to look at another one of the major headless CMS (hCMS—the ‘h’ is decapitated) contenders, namely ContentStack. In a world where it’s hard to tell one hCMS from another, a couple of ContentStack’s differentiators are what it calls ‘modular blocks,’ an intuitive setup for managing multi-language environments, and ‘environments’ that allow…
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GatsbyConf 2021 brings new 3.0 version and new images
Latest revision: March 4, 2021 The online virtual GatsbyConf, which kicked off today, announced at least six significant updates, including a 3.0 release of Gatsby itself; a new component that goes beyond the already savvy Gatsby-sharp handling images used within Gatsby sites; and the addition of a CDN service (in partnership with Fastly) to the…
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The Core Web Vitals Report
Nobody loves a report more than I do.
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TheJam.dev Day Two: Looks at Angular+Jamstack, Github Founder’s Take
Key among the events at the second day of the Jam.Dev online event was the concluding “fireside chat” with RedwoodJS creator and Github founder Tom Preston-Warner, in which Preston-Warner imagined a more full-stack edge architecture, something he is working on RedwoodJS to create. (Coverage of day one is here.) Moderator Brian Rinaldi, developer advocate at…
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TheJam.dev 2021 kicks off with azure and ecommerce
Today was the first day of a two-day Jam.Dev event online. The event had a lot to offer people who are presently trying to sort out the lay of the land in the static site generator ecosystem. The Azure Take on Static Shmuela Jacobs, cloud developer advocate at Microsoft, walked through the Static Web App…
