Headless WordPress Theme

Theme to use when WordPress is being used as a headless CMS.

Overview

This theme provides these things:

1. A blank style.css file (required for any WP theme) and a theme screenshot of the WP logo
2. A functions.php file that contains a single function for redirecting requests for frontend WP pages to the decoupled frontend app
3. An index.php file that renders out a link to the wp-admin as a fallback, if the redirect described in #2 has not been set up

This theme does not provide any templates or styles, since it is meant to be used for headless setups.

Getting Started

Install and activate, just as you would any WP theme Define a FRONTEND_APP_URL constant in your project (wp-config.php usually works best), specifying where the frontend app lives, like this:

define( 'FRONTEND_APP_URL', 'https://example.com' );

Once you define this constant, requests to frontend WP pages will be redirected to the decoupled frontend app URL. If you do not define it, then for all requests to frontend WP pages, a <site title> admin link will be rendered out that points to the wp-admin.