Speaker Announcement: Leonardo Losoviz on “Intro to the GraphQL API for WordPress”

Leonardo Losoviz will be speaking on the topic “Intro to the GraphQL API for WordPress”. This session will be held on the weekend of 13th and 14th February 2021. The schedule will soon be announced – keep following this space!

Bio of Leonardo

Leonardo Losoviz is an open source developer and freelance technical writer, with an ongoing quest to bring innovative paradigms to WordPress. He is currently working at the intersection of GraphQL and WordPress.

About the session

Presentation of the new GraphQL API for WordPress plugin, to use the increasingly popular GraphQL API to fetch data from the WordPress site.

The plugin is open source. Repo: https://github.com/GraphQLAPI/graphql-api-for-wp.

We will first explore the current scene of APIs in WordPress:

  • What is an API
  • What are the current solutions for WordPress: WP REST API and WPGraphQL
  • Their characteristics

Then he will explain the characteristics of this new plugin GraphQL API for WordPress, and do a demo of it. The demo involves using the WordPress admin, there won’t be any code at all, so it will be suitable for beginners too.

Attendees will learn about the different API solutions in WordPress, and about the GraphQL API plugin in particular

Leonardo’s Twitter handle is @losoviz

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