🎊 New Gato GraphQL website, new headless starter, attending WordCamps, and more

Howdy! Here are all our news concerning Gato GraphQL up to March 2024.

We got a brand-new website!

This same website, where you're reading this blog post, has been rebuilt anew:

To say that we are happy with it is an understatement (if you had visited the previous version, you'd know why 🤣).

This site is static, built using Next.js, Typescript and Tailwind CSS, and hosted on Netlify.

I'm particularly excited about the new documentation sections, which make it easy to browse all the documents (and also copy the GraphQL queries):

Documentation in Gato GraphQL's new website

We've also added search to the site, powered by Algolia. Click on the "search" icon on the top navigation, and find information in all documentation items and blog posts:

Now that the website is (pretty much) completed, we will focus on creating more relevant content.

To this end, we've added a new Comparisons section, to demonstrate Gato GraphQL's capabilities as measured against other WordPress plugins. It contains 2 articles to date (Gato GraphQL vs the WP REST API, and Gato GraphQL vs WPGraphQL), and several more are on the way.

Comparisons page in the Gato GraphQL's new website

And after that, we'll start recording "How to" video tutorials, including demos "How to duplicate posts", "How to automatically translate posts", and "How to import posts from an RSS feed", among many others. Stay tuned!

Be welcome to browse this new site, and give us feedback: Do you like it? Do you not like it? What could be improved?

New Next.js WordPress starter for Gato GraphQL

Colby Fayock's Next.js WordPress starter is a project to create headless WordPress sites powerd by Next.js and GraphQL.

As this project is based on WPGraphQL, I decided to fork it and adapt it, so it can also work with Gato GraphQL.

The result is GatoGraphQL/next-wordpress-starter, a Next.js WordPress starter based on Gato GraphQL.

Do check it out!

I additionally created leoloso/next-wordpress-starter, which allows us to use either WPGraphQL or Gato GraphQL (simply indicating which one to use by environment variable, with no other changes). I'm hopeful this project will be merged into Colby Fayock's starter... that'd be really cool 😎

Website using the Next.js WordPress starter for Gato GraphQL

Attending WordCamp Asia 2024

The Gato GraphQL team (that is me, Leo!) attended WordCamp Asia 2024 in Taipei. If you were there and we met, it was a pleasure to meet you! (I appreciated talking to everyone.)