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Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by taubek on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:12AM (#30175749)
I was on the other side of the table, I was working for a company that was developing WP plugins bunt I'm not a developer. During my years there I've meet a lot of developers. I've seen different approaches. The most surprising thing to me was headless WP. I didn't get why do they even want WP.

Take a look at WooCommerce. I guess that it is much easier to do some of the custom code than to reinvent a wheel. Not to mention learning users on how to do something in a totally different environment.

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Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by globalise83 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:27AM (#30177179)
Headless WooCommerce is actually pretty cool - you get free admin UI for managing the shop, and can build whatever frontend you like without the constraints of WordPress. Seems like a no-brainer for anyone who can do a bit of frontend development.
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Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by yurishimo on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:37AM (#30179897)
Only if you don't want/need to tap in to any plugin ecosystem. WooCommerce is the worst in this regard as basically everything is bolted on using actions/filters which only work in the traditional theme route.
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