{
  "id": 10954375,
  "title": "Headless WordPress with WPGraphQL and Next.js: From First Query to Production",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/headless-wordpress-with-wpgraphql-and-next-js-from-first-query-to",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-30T13:55:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/4wpdev/headless-wordpress-with-wpgraphql-and-nextjs-from-first-query-to-production-m98"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This guide walks through building a headless WordPress blog using WPGraphQL and Next.js, from the initial query to a production-ready deployment. The key steps include setting up the WordPress site with WPGraphQL, fetching pagination data via a custom fetch function, and rendering the paginated post list in a Next.js (App Router) blog. Additional features covered are a single post page, shared GraphQL fragments, cache revalidation, and securing the endpoint with revalidation tags.",
  "summary": "Most WPGraphQL tutorials end at the first query. This one goes further: a small Next.js (App Router) blog on top of headless WordPress, taken all the way to a production-ready setup. We'll build a paginated list, a single post page, one custom field, shared fragments, then lock the endpoint down and wire cache revalidation to the Publish button. If you want the \"why\" first — trade-offs of GraphQL…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}