Headless WordPress with Blazor frontend

Frontend build with Blazor, using Wordpress, running on .NET, as a headless CMS,

Pre-configured for a containerized development environment using Docker Compose

Watch Demo Video

Features

• List excerpts of posts, and view full posts.
• Display a Menu/Navigation that has been defined in Wordpress.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the guys at Iolevel, and the community, for the wonderful Peachpie PHP compiler, and Wordpress.NET.

And a special thanks to the Wordpress community for this awesome ecosystem

Screenshots

Frontend (Blazor)

Index	Post

Run the app with Docker Compose

This is the simplest way of running this project.

But you need to do the necessary configuration of Wordpress.

$ docker compose up -d

The Blazor Frontend is served at: https://localhost:5001/

While Wordpress is at: https://localhost:5005/.

Tip

** This seem to break the Gutenberg Editor since it is using the setting when sending requests to Wordpress. **

For convenience, you can change the Site Address (URL) in WP Admin (Settings > General) to be the address of the frontend. Now the links in WP Admin that lead to the frontend will be correct.

Manual installation

Create MySQL database

WordPress requires you to start your database server with a database in it. By default it expects a database server on localhost, port 3306, with a database named "wordpress".

You can use docker to quickly start a database server in virtual environment:

docker run -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password -e MYSQL_DATABASE=wordpress -p 3306:3306 -d mysql

Build & Run

Note, this is a regular ASP.NET web project. Building, running, debugging, and deploying the site take advantage of dotnet, optionally Visual Studio.

dotnet run

Configuration

The configuration itself serves as a demonstration of combining a legacy PHP application with .NET. The demo takes advantage of the ASP.NET Core configuration mechanism, namely the files appsettings.json, appsettings.deployment.json and appsettings.production.json. This allows for having a different configuration for each environment without the need of altering the source code of the project.

More on configuring WpDotNet on https://docs.peachpie.io/scenarios/wordpress/configuration/.