Combining WordPress & Gatsby lets us have the best of both worlds for content creation & web dev. In this episode, Alexandra Spalato teaches us to how to use Gatsby themes to build WordPress sites quickly!
00:00:00 Welcome
00:00:40 Guest introduction
00:04:45 What’s the difference between the starters and themes API?
00:09:23 What’s in a free theme for Gatsby?
00:11:16 Live captioning shoutout!
00:12:02 Where should you start with Gatsby Themes?
00:21:47 Gatsby Themes documents
00:25:13 Open the Starter Lite theme in VS Code
00:26:15 Installing modules
00:31:09 Is this using WPGraphQL under the hood?
00:36:52 Are we installing a theme or plugins?
00:41:12 What’s really exciting about this approach
00:45:32 Customizing the theme
00:48:51 How has working with headless WordPress been?
00:56:23 How does WordPress SEO work in headless mode?
00:59:59 Welcome
01:04:18 Themes are very well organized
01:09:00 What else can we expect from Gatsby Themes?
01:13:06 Where can people find out more about Gatsby Themes?
01:16:12 Coming up next on LearnWithJason
Links:
* https://gatsbywpthemes.com
* https://localwp.com
* https://fonts.google.com
* https://goofonts.com
This episode was sponsored by:
– Netlify (https://lwj.dev/netlify)
– Fauna (https://lwj.dev/fauna)
– Auth0 (https://lwj.dev/auth0)
Live transcription by White Coat Captioning (https://whitecoatcaptioning.com/)
Credits:
Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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