I am in the middle of creating a new website. THIS blog website actually!
Having a think about the look and feel of my current blog with the basic theme just does not feel like the website I actually wanted.
So I started creating my own theme in WordPress and every time I tried, it got boring when converting components in PHP and then pulling out the WordPress functions…
One thing about me is if I am doing a website for myself, I would prefer to just do everything in the front end and if I need to do a small amount of backend, I don’t mind it. I just like seeing things move!
I began researching upon whether there are ways to convert WordPress to Angular…
And the answer is YES!
I found one way which is very interesting! To achieve this, I used the following plugin:
WP REST API Controller plugin basically converts your posts into an API where you are able to display your content however you want! All it would need is a AJAX call and then you control how to display the content.
So with this, I started researching further with how to call certain posts and how to display the pages on the Angular page. Not long after, I found a few websites and developers using this same API.
I started with the following API:
…/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?page=1&categories=150&_embed
This pulls out something like the following:
This is what made me realise that this is possible to do my whole blog in Angular! So now I am just fully invested in doing this new website!
So as of so far, I have spent a few weeks working with this API and will be posting updates as I go. Its going pretty slow but this makes me focus more of my front end development instead of playing around with server side code.
We will see how this goes……
Its like you read my mind! You appear to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you can do with a few pics to drive the message home a little bit, but other than that, this is fantastic blog. A great read. I’ll certainly be back.