Headless WP Podcast
Join the WP Engine Developer Relations team as they discuss all things related to headless WordPress and modern web development.
Episodes
48 episodes
Cloudflare with Kirk Schwenkler
Kirk Schwenkler is a Solutions Architect for the Developer Platform at Cloudflare. Lots of our architecture at WP Engine uses Cloudflare in different ways, as I’m sure many other tech companies do as well, so we wanted to have Kirk on to unpack...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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58:36
Exploring Nuxt 3 with Daniel Roe
Daniel Roe is on the framework team for Nuxt, a Vue-based full-stack framework. Some of our most popular content is on Nuxt and headless WordPress. A new version of Nuxt, Nuxt 3, reached a stable release late in 2022. This new version comes pac...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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1:06:40
REST API Performance with Jonny Harris
Jonny Harris is a London-based WordPress developer specializing in large-scale WordPress projects and runs the Spacedmonkey consultancy. Jonny has been developing websites for over 10 years. He is most known for his open-source work in WordPres...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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1:12:49
WPGraphQL Smart Cache with Jason Bahl
In this episode, Fran and Jeff catch up with Jason Bahl, the creator of WPGraphQL to discuss a new caching extension for WPGraphQL. Jason is a figure in the headless WordPress ecosystem that likely needs no introduction, but the group discusses...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:01:43
Esports Publishing at Dexertos with Rob Humar
In this podcast episode, Fran and Jeff talk with Rob Humar, the head of web development at Dexertos, the world's largest esports publishing platform. As a media company, Dexertos does around 60 million monthly page views. Rob walks us through s...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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54:25
Gatsby and the Modular Web with Sam Bhagwat
In this episode, Fran and Jeff talk with Sam Bhagwat, the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Gatsby Cloud, about the modular web and Sam’s new bo...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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59:36
The JAMstack with Salma Alam-Naylor
In this episode, Jeff and Fran chat with Salma Alam-Naylor, a Staff Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, about the state of the JAMstack ecosystem. We kick off the discussion by exploring the values of learning in public with tech blogs an...
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1:02:03
The Astro Framework with Fred Schott
In this episode, Fran and Jeff talk to Fred Schott, the co-creator of the Astro framework. Astro is a newer JavaScript framework that focuses on creating super fast content-focused sites. There is a ton of love in the JS community for Astro, an...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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55:48
The Future of Faust with Chris Wiegman
In this episode, Fran and Jeff talk with Chris Wiegman, the Engineering Manager of the team working on WP Engine's Faust framework. During this quarter, the Faust framework has undergone a massive overhaul and Chris spends some time sharing det...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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50:39
Cloudinary with Colby Fayock
In this episode, Fran and Jeff catch up with Colby Fayock, a previous guest and a Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Cloudinary. This episode touches on how Cloudinary can help developers offload, optimize, and transform images using their...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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52:19
Google Analytics with Matt Landers
In this episode, Fran and Jeff catch up with Matt Landers, the former manager of WP Engine's Dev Rel team, and discuss his new role in developer relations at Google Analytics. We take a deep dive into some of the major differences between the c...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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55:37
Alexa Spalato and Gatsby WP Themes
In this episode, Fran and Jeff talk with Alexa Spalato, the co-founder of Gatsby WP Themes, a company focused on building out Gatsby themes made to work with headless WordPress. We learn how Alexa got involved in tech, discuss some of the detai...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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52:30
GraphQL at the Edge with Stellate
In this episode, Jeff and Fran talk with Max Stoiber and Thomas Heyenbrock of Stellate, an innovative company working in the GraphQL space. Some of this episode's highlights include: learning more about Stellate's core offering...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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54:01
Next.js 12.2, Open Source, and Community Building with Lee Robinson
In this episode, Fran and Jeff talk with Lee Robinson, the VP of Developer Experience at Vercel. We take a look at some new or now stable features in Next.js, like
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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55:09
Introducing Fran and Jeff
In this episode, we get things up and running for Season 3, with just a few changes. First, we've rebranded the podcast slightly by changing the name. Second, we have new co-hosts for the show. In this intro episode we dig into Fran and Jeff's ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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48:06
Next.js and SvelteKit with Lee Robinson
We close out the year with Lee Robinson, the director of developer relations at Vercel. Lee talks about the current Next.js landscape within headless development, Rich Harris joining Vercel to work on SvelteKit, and whether Vercel will shift th...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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50:52
Gatsby 4 with Alex Moon
Alex Moon stops by to hype Gatsby 4. How did Gatsby 4 an up to 10x rendering speed? How is Gatsby future-proofing against React? They also talk about how well Gatsby plays with Faust.js.Links:
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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59:57
Building Communities with Brian Gardner
Kellen and Grace bring in WPEngine's new Developer Relator Brian Gardner, Founder of StudioPress, Co-creator Genesis, to talk about building development communities. Links:briangardne...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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35:58
Introducing Grace Erixon
The De{Code} podcast welcomes our new host, Grace Erixon. Kellen and Grace talk about Grace's development history.
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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24:51
Farewell Will
Will bids the De{Code} podcast adieu and reflects on his headless development journey.
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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50:12
Gutenberg with Jason Bahl
The DevRel team invites JSON Bahl back onto the pod to discuss Gutenberg. Jason talks about the benefits of Gutenberg, what's lacking in Gutenberg's current implementation, and what implementations ex...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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49:27
Rendering Patterns with Alex Moon
Solutions Architect Alex Moon stops by the De{Code} pod to talk rendering in front-end development. Links:The When and Where of Rend...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:22:20
Next.js Rumor Roundup
Will and Kellen give their predictions and dreams for Next.js conference 2021. What will happen on the 5th anniversary of Next.js? Increased support for Core Web Vitals? Support for Deno? What about running...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:04:13