😲 15 things (you didn’t know) you can do with GraphQL in WordPress

I was invited to present Gato GraphQL on WordCamp Malaysia 2023 last September, and the video of the talk is now live:

Here is the video:

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro

[00:49] What we usually know about using GraphQL in WordPress

[02:43] Exploring Gato GraphQL in the wp-admin:

[08:14] 15 things we can do with Gato GraphQL in WordPress:

[08:51] Intro to Recipes section
[09:29] (#1) Search WP data (eg: finding posts or users by metadata)
[12:40] (#2) Complement WP-CLI (eg: selecting on which resources to apply a command)
[14:10] (#3) Send personalized emails
[16:18] (#4) Retrieve data for blocks for both CSR and SSR (using DRY logic!) [skip demo]
[16:40] (#5) Map JavaScript components to blocks [skip demo]
[16:49] (#6) Duplicate a blog post
[18:22] (#7) Customize content for different users [skip demo]
[18:28] (#8) Adapt content in bulk (eg: replacing a string in all posts, as when migrating the site's domain)
[20:14] (#9) Automate admin tasks (eg: inserting a mandatory block whenever missing) [skip demo]
[20:53] (#10) Add a custom CTA block before a campaign to all posts, and remove it afterwards [skip demo]
[20:56] (#11) Translate a blog post (at the block-property level!)
[23:13] (#12) Send a notification when there's a new post, and a daily summary of activity to your email [skip demo]
[23:17] (#13) Combine data from Mailchimp subscribers and website users [skip demo]
[23:24] (#14) Import a post from another WordPress site [skip demo]
[23:26] (#15) Distribute content to multiple downstream sites (eg: sync data within a multisite) [skip demo]

[23:34] Conclusion

[23:53] Q&A:

[23:54] "What prompted you to build this plugin? Was there any problem that you encountered as a developer, so you decided to create this plugin?"
[25:13] "Is it possible to do it with the REST API? For instance Gato REST API?"
[25:52] "The part with the tables with the relationships [The GraphQL schema], what is that about?"
[27:58] "[About the GraphQL schema] Is it automated, or do we need to do manual mapping?"
[29:47] "Can it be used to power an AI assistant? (Using GraphQL instead of the REST API)"

These are the slides:

Enjoy!