{"id":724,"date":"2017-08-02T05:47:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T05:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.omaha.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=724"},"modified":"2017-08-15T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T03:50:09","slug":"a-primer-into-what-headless-and-brainless-wp-even-means","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/a-primer-into-what-headless-and-brainless-wp-even-means\/","title":{"rendered":"A Primer into what Headless and Brainless WP even means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ever since the release of the WordPress Rest API, there has been this buzzword flying around: Headless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I&#8217;ve found that most of the answers as to what Headless even is are largely focused on &#8220;How&#8221; to do it as opposed to a clear response of &#8220;What&#8221; it is, and &#8220;Why&#8221; you should do it. In my talk I aim to educate on 3 approaches that I&#8217;ve come across on how to use WordPress, JavaScript, and the Rest API.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Limbless<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Headless<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brainless<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In my talk I hope to inspire the community to further consider WordPress as more than just a CMS, but an entire Framework capable of producing anything we can imagine when partnered with JavaScript and the Rest API. I do not intend on sharing JS Framework specific examples (IE: Here is how to do this with React, or Angular, or Vue). Rather, I&#8217;m going to provide a larger picture of Pro&#8217;s and Con&#8217;s, Strengths and Weakness, Successes and Caveats to using any one of these three approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the release of the WordPress Rest API, there has been this buzzword flying around: Headless. I&#8217;ve found that most of the answers as to what Headless even is are largely focused on &#8220;How&#8221; to do it as opposed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/a-primer-into-what-headless-and-brainless-wp-even-means\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">A Primer into what Headless and Brainless WP even means<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15263395,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1503756000,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[722],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[144],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-724","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-development"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8hFxM-bG","session_date_time":{"date":"August 26, 2017","time":"2:00 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"722","slug":"ben-moore","name":"Ben Moore","link":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/ben-moore\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/724\/revisions\/736"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/722"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/skypressatx"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}