I had the pleasure of joining Doc Pop Roberts on the Torque Magazine News Drop. We spent 18 minutes discussing headless WordPress and WPGraphQL. Give it a watch!!
Author Archives: Jason Bahl
Setting up a new developer environment to contribute to WPGraphQL..
I just announced that I am now employed by WP Engine to work on WPGraphQL. With new employment comes a new Macbook, which I need to setup as a dev machine to continue working on WPGraphQL. It’s always a tedious process to get a new computer setup to be an effective developer, so I thought …
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What’s next for WPGraphQL?
On February 1, I announced that I was no longer employed at Gatsby, and stated a blog post would be coming soon. This is that blog post. TL;DR I’m joining WP Engine as a Principal Software Engineer where I will continue maintaining WPGraphQL and will contribute to other projects and initiatives centered around the goal …
Allowing WPGraphQL to show unpublished authors in User Queries
Objective The goal of this article is to make a non-authenticated GraphQL query for a User with no published content and to get the User returned in the response. Like the following: NOTE: To test these queries you will want to use a GraphQL client that is not Authenticated, such as GraphQL Playground or Altair. …
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Announcing WPGraphQL v1.0
I’m so excited to announce WPGraphQL 1.0! If you’ve been using WPGraphQL for your side projects, but are waiting for the “stable” version, then this is it! You can use WPGraphQL in production with the confidence that it is secure, well documented, and supported full time and long term. If you’re new to the WPGraphQL …
Registering Types and Fields: Pair Programming with Jacob Arriola
On Thursday, March 26, 2020 I pair programmed with Jacob Arriola, Senior Web Engineer at Zeek Interactive. Zeek Interactive is a California-based software agency specializing in WordPress and Apple iOS. They recently moved their own marketing website from traditional WordPress to Headless WordPress with WPGraphQL as the API and Gatsby as the front-end. With the …
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Forward and Backward Pagination with WPGraphQL
WPGraphQL makes use of cursor-based pagination, inspired by the Relay specification for GraphQL Connections. If you’re not familiar with cursor-based pagination it can be confusing to understand and implement in your applications. In this post, we’ll compare cursor-based pagination to page-based pagination, and will look at how to implement forward and backward pagination in a …
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WPGraphQL v0.8.0
Release Notes TL;DR This release focuses on adjusting how Nodes are resolved to prevent errors in cases where the nodes are determined to be considered private and non-viewable by the requesting user. (#1138) More details below: Schema Breaking Changes Internal Breaking Changes New Features Release Summary Explanation of Changes to the Abstract Connection Resolver Schema …
Registering GraphQL Fields with Arguments
One of the most common ways to customize the WPGraphQL Schema is to register new fields. When registering fields, argument(s) can also be defined for the field. Field arguments in GraphQL allow input to be passed to the field, and when the field is resolved, the input of the field argument can be used to …
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WPGraphQL v0.7.0
WPGraphQL v0.7.0 is here!https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql/releases/tag/v0.7.0 This release focused primarily on exposing Post Type and Taxonomy nodes at the root of the query. This release does include some breaking changes, so it’s highly recommended that you read the release notes and test on a staging server before updating.