Wordpress Headless Using Nextjs
Innovate Finance is committed to advancing the UK's position in the financial services sector by supporting the next generation of technology-led innovators. Our mission is to create a more inclusive, democratic, and effective financial services sector that benefits everyone.
Client Objective
Forward-thinking participants to create a more transparent, sustainable, and inclusive global financial services sector.
To achieve this, they plan to continue using WordPress for content management, leveraging its flexibility and popularity as a headless CMS.
Challenges
Key Challenges include retrieving data from WordPress using the REST API for various parts of the website.
Pagination should be implemented using the REST API.
Determining which components can be built statically and which components are dynamically derived from API.
Technology Used
Approach
Next.js was chosen to provide the building blocks for building web applications, configuration and updates.
As per the client’s requirement, technical research and development was conducted to integrate WordPress with Next.js.
SCube, as a WordPress & Next.js partner - insights from the Partner Program to effectively leverage the WordPress REST API.
Search functionality is launched from WordPress and implemented in Next.js.
Conclusion
Client’s requirement is successfully met by integration of Next.js with wordpress through the REST API.
Using WordPress for content management is beneficial from Next.js for frontend development.
Implemented solution allows for a faster loading website, increased conversion rate optimization (CRO) and accessibility in areas with slower internet speeds.