Welcome to Headless WordPress – the magical land where you can keep all the good bits of WordPress (the admin, the plugins, the client’s obsession with it) and ditch the theme system, template hierarchy, and every get_the_thing() function that’s ever haunted a javascript developer’s dreams. We’ll dive into how to decouple WordPress from the front end entirely, freeing you to build slick, modern interfaces using javascript frameworks. We’ll cover what headless actually means, when it makes sense, and how to get started.
