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Discussion on: What tech did you use to build your personal website/portfolio?

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Marc Philippe Beaujean • Edited

I used (headless) wordpress and gatsby to build my blog @ byteschool.io. Wordpress is self-hosted, frontend is running on Netlify.

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Jacob Baker • Edited

How do find using headless WordPress? I did a fair number of projects using WordPress in the past and being able to decouple the front & backend would have been nice.

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Marc Philippe Beaujean

It was alright! A Gatsby plugin did most of the work in terms of hooking things up and fetching data.I'm not an expert at WordPress so customising some things was harder for me, but should be easier for you 😊

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David Kaplan • Edited

The WordPress REST API is very good now. I built a site using WP as the backend for my client to manage custom post types and then Axios with VueJS for the front-end. For me at the time, not having to build a CMS was a good thing.