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 …
Category Archives: Announcements
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 …
WPGraphiQL IDE v1.0.0 with GraphQL Explorer
The GraphiQL IDE is an incredibly helpful tool when using GraphQL. WPGraphiQL has been the go-to GraphiQL IDE for use with WPGraphQL, and today we’ve released v1.0.0 of the WPGraphiQL IDE, now with the AMAZING GraphQL Explorer feature, courtesy of the fine folks at OneGraph.com.
Re-introducing WPGraphQL for ACF
TL;DR Starting today, WPGraphQL for Advanced Custom Fields is FREE! Some Context In April 2019, I released the WPGraphQL for Advanced Custom Fields plugin as a paid plugin in an attempt to generate enough revenue to one day be able to work on WPGraphQL full-time. I want to thank everyone that purchased a license and …
WPGraphQL for FacetWP
I am pleased to announce the beta release of my FacetWP integration plugin for WPGraphQL. The main functionality was written quickly in late 2018 to fill a need to provide client-side access to FacetWP’s index and filtering functionality via WPGraphQL. As a proof-of-concept it worked exactly as needed. It was a lot less effort to create this plugin than it would have been to roll my own …
WPGraphQL featured on Syntax.fm
Today, I had the pleasure of being featured on the Syntax.fm podcast with hosts Wes Bos and Scott Tolinsky. In this episode we discussed how to use GraphQL with WordPress using the WPGraphQL plugin. I also announced that I’ve joined the Gatsby team to work on WPGraphQL an its immediate ecosystem full-tiime. Below is the …
WPGraphQL for ACF is here!
Many folks using WPGraphQL have asked about how to use GraphQL with their ACF data. The answer has typically been to manually map their ACF fields to the GraphQL schema using functions like register_graphql_field and register_graphql_object_type. For a few fields, this isn’t much of an issue, but when you have dozens of fields, this gets …
Introducing playground.wpgraphql.com
I’ve done many presentations about the WPGraphQL plugin, and I find myself showing demos of many of the same features, so in order to streamline the demos before my presentation at the 2018 WordCamp Phoenix, I created https://playground.wpgraphql.com This site showcases examples of GraphQL Queries and Mutations on a live WordPress site with the WPGraphQL …
WPGraphQL Featured on FreeCodeCamp
FreeCodeCamp is a popular YouTube channel that posts free videos about coding. Today, Jesse Weigel did a live coding session diving into using GraphQL with WordPress and after comparing a few options, he settled on using WPGraphQL. Watching the video was eye opening. It was great to see that folks are interested in using GraphQL with WordPress, …
Tracing for WPGraphQL
In 2015, Huey Petersen wrote an article about instrumenting a GraphQL schema to track resolver times and provide insight into how the GraphQL server is performing. Since then Apollo Optics has taken the instrumentation to a new level, providing a SaaS solution for storing data about your GraphQL requests. The Apollo team has also been working …