Headless Converter

Converts frontend to JSON response when request is done with certain conditions.

Inspiration

After creating a bunch of headless WordPress + Web app stacks, I wanted to find a standard and a all-round solution for fetching per page information for web applications inside WordPress. Built-in rest api works fine in basic cases, but it doesn’t support querying by path. Usually this meant that for each project developers would create a custom rest endpoint which would return expected content using content type and slug parameters.

WordPress has few built-in functions to retrieve content by path, url_to_postid and get_page_by_path, but they don’t seem to work with multilanguage plugins, taxonomy or archive pages, which means that WP doesn’t have a reliable way to fetch content…