Gatsby JS v5 & Headless WordPress (Gatsby & WordPress 2023)

JAN 2023 UPDATE – This course has been completely updated to use Gatsby v5 & Headless WordPress with Gutenberg blocks / WordPress block editor.

Do you want to improve your React JS skills and increase your value as a front-end developer?

– “Gatsby lets you build blazing fast sites with your data, whatever the source. Liberate your sites from legacy CMSs and fly into the future.”

Level-up your React skillset by learning Gatsby.js with a WordPress backend! Gatsby JS uses React JS and GraphQL to generate and build static pages from a given dataset. This course will look at setting up WordPress as a headless CMS while using GatsbyJS to generate a blazing-fast server-rendered React website from WordPress data using the NEW WordPress block editor (otherwise known as the Gutenberg block editor). We’ll building out custom posts, pages, menus, media, advanced custom fields, (and more!) using GraphQL to query that data.

That’s right, we can actually query WordPress data using GraphQL!

This course will cover Gatsby v5 with WordPress (using the NEW Gutenberg block editor). We’ll create “The Gatsby Garage” in this course; a fictional classic car garage that buys and sells classic cars. While building this site we’ll be covering so many different features of both Gatsby andWordPress.

• We’ll style our site using Tailwind CSS.

• We’ll dive into WordPress development by creating our own custom Gutenberg blocks using ACF Pro.

• We’ll implement forms where we’ll store form submissions directly in WordPress using Contact Form 7 and Flamingo.

• We’ll implement dynamic searching of cars.

• We’ll deploy a live, production version of our site.

• Plus so much more!

This is the ONLY resource available online that covers using Gatsby & WordPress in this way.

It’s recommended you have rudimentary knowledge of React. We’ll be covering everything else from Gatsby.js, WordPress, GraphQL, and Tailwind CSS!

What other students are saying about this Gatsby & WordPress course:

5/5 stars–“Tom is a really nice guy with a good voice. His course is to the point and his response to the Q&A is awesome. I really like the fact that this course is not that long and shows you the endless possibilities that you can do with both Gatsby and the WordPress API. For me this is a really good starting point in transforming a couple of websites without a CMS into a website with CMS” –Edwin Boon

5/5 stars – “Tom’s course is concise, clear, and gives you a good example of how to leverage your knowledge of React into fluency working with Gatsby.” –Rob Thorne

5/5 stars – “Straight to the point, no pep talkings, Tom delivers the course as a sharing-experience between two colleagues. From his experience, without pretensions of teaching but showing what he finds to be helpful, he drives the lectures smoothly intertwining react, graphQL and wordpress with gatsby in a minimalistic way that can be approachable by anybody. Don’t expect complicated ract patterns as that’s not the point; I really appreciate that from Tom, keeping the focus on the whole architecture, not react/wordpress/graphQL specific. Just be aware we are not talking about the old web patterns, so make sure you have a sound understanding of react, wordpress and REST APIs; and by his exposition, gatsby explanations will naturally fall in place almost unnoticeable; you will be using it already.” –Tony Guerrero

5/5 stars – “I had no idea this was possible! I usually use React but have never used WordPress before, but I found this was really well articulated. Brilliant course – thank you!”– Carol Emma

Rating Distribution

• 1 stars: 12 votes
• 2 stars: 17 votes
• 3 stars: 77 votes
• 4 stars: 238 votes
• 5 stars: 396 votes

Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!