Keploy's blog with Next.js and WordPress

Configuration

Step 1. Prepare your WordPress site

First, you need a WordPress site. There are many solutions for WordPress hosting or you could use a Local by flywheel for setting up WordPress locally.

Once the site is ready, you'll need to install the WPGraphQL plugin. It will add GraphQL API to your WordPress site, which we'll use to query the posts. Follow these steps to install it:

• Download the WPGraphQL repo as a ZIP archive.
• Inside your WordPress admin, go to Plugins and then click Add New.
• Click the Upload Plugin button at the top of the page and upload the WPGraphQL plugin.
• Once the plugin has been added, activate it from either the Activate Plugin button displayed after uploading or from the Plugins page.

GraphQL

The WPGraphQL plugin also gives you access to a GraphQL IDE directly from your WordPress Admin, allowing you to inspect and play around with the GraphQL API.

Step 2. Populate Content

Inside your WordPress admin, go to Posts and start adding new posts:

• We recommend creating at least 2 posts
• Use dummy data for the content
• Pick an author from your WordPress users
• Add a Featured Image. You can download one from Unsplash
• Fill the Excerpt field

When you’re done, make sure to Publish the posts.

Note: Only published posts and public fields will be rendered by the app

Step 3. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/keploy/blog-website.git
cd blog-website

Step 4. Install dependencies

npm install

# or

yarn install

Step 5. Set up environment variables

Copy the .env.local.example file in this directory to .env.local (which will be ignored by Git):

cp .env.local.example .env.local

Then open .env.local and set WORDPRESS_API_URL to be the URL to your GraphQL endpoint in WordPress. For example: https://Testapp.com/graphql.

Your .env.local file should look like this:

WORDPRESS_API_URL=...

Step 6. Run Next.js in development mode

npm run dev

# or

yarn dev

Your blog should be up and running on http://localhost:3000! If it doesn't work, post on GitHub discussions.