Gato GraphQL @ WPBuilds
WPBuilds is hosting a 5-episode webinar series on Gato GraphQL.
| # | Date | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 18th Oct | Introduction to Gato GraphQL, Running queries in the admin, Creating API endpoints, Access Control, Caching |
| 2 | Wed 25th Oct | Integrating with Gutenberg, Customizing content for users, Duplicating posts |
| 3 | Wed 6th Dec | Updating content in bulk, Automating tasks |
| 4 | Wed 13th Dec | Translating content, Interacting with external services, Importing/distributing content |
| 5 | Wed 20th Dec | Extending the GraphQL schema |
All episodes take place at 3pm UK time (10am Eastern / 7am Pacific).
Join the live webinar at wpbuilds.com/live, or watch the video later on YouTube.
Webinar Series Program and Videos permalink
Here is the program for all 5 episodes, and the YouTube videos for all past episodes.
1. Introduction to Gato GraphQL, Running queries in the admin, Creating API endpoints, Access Control, Caching permalink
Episode transcript @ wpbuilds.com.
Live demo:
- Publishing an API endpoint without any PHP code, and making it password-protected or private
- Caching the API response without using 3rd-party libraries
2. Integrating with Gutenberg, Customizing content for users, Duplicating posts permalink
Episode transcript @ wpbuilds.com.
Live demo:
- Searching WP data (eg: finding posts or users by metadata)
- Querying dynamic data
- Complementing WP-CLI (eg: selecting on which resources to apply a command)
- Feeding data to custom blocks from your application
- Retrieving data for blocks for both client-side rendering (CSR) and server-side rendering (SSR), using DRY logic!
- Retrieving and exposing structured data from blocks
- Mapping JavaScript components to blocks
- Sending personalized emails
3. Updating content in bulk, Automating tasks permalink
(Video and transcipt: not available yet.)
Live demo:
- Customizing content for different users
- Duplicating a blog post, and also multiple blog posts at once
- Adapting content in bulk (eg: replacing a string in all posts, as when migrating the site's domain)
- Automating admin tasks (eg: automatically inserting a mandatory block whenever missing)
- Adding a custom call-to-action block to all posts (before a campaign), and removing it (after the campaign)
- Sending a notification when there's a new post, and a daily summary of activity to your email
4. Translating content, Interacting with external services, Importing/distributing content permalink
(Video and transcipt: not available yet.)
Live demo:
- Translating a blog post (at the block-property level!), and also multiple blog posts at once
- Interacting with external services (eg: combining data from Mailchimp subscribers and website users)
- Importing a post from another WordPress site
- Distributing content to multiple downstream sites (eg: syncing data within a multisite)
5. Extending the GraphQL schema permalink
(Video and transcipt: not available yet.)
We will learn how to create an extension plugin, containing resolvers that fetch custom data, to power our themes, plugins and applications.