TL;DR WinterWerk is built from ISR Blog with Next.js and WordPress.
I started blogging on mechaneyes.com somewhere around 2004. It was super fun and rewarding even though it didn’t have a lot of readers. But while there were people reading, and that they shared their appreciation for some to what was written, that wasn’t the point. I just enjoy putting my thoughts on paper.
So wanting to reboot that habit, I’ve setup WinterWerk.
Back then I was working with WordPress, and really enjoyed it. In fact I spent years after that working with WordPress to build websites big and small for clients big and small. Funny though, I considered that “programming.” It really wasn’t. heh
So wanting to get back to wp, I knew I wanted to explore a headless implementation of it, breaking out the frontend into something more flexible and divorced from the PHP backend. React would make sense, and Next.js would be preferred. After exploring a couple options, I discovered that Vercel had built out a template facilitating the whole thing: ISR Blog with Next.js and WordPress.
If I really wanted to, which I think means, “if I really wanted to make it hard on myself,” I would have looked to roll the whole thing myself. But I’ve got a lot on my plate, and my time is better spent elsewhere, so I’ve implemented this site using the approach detailed in that Vercel template.
