Nicholas Underpin Module

This module sets up the back-end logic necessary to use, and extend a nearly headless WordPress website.

Boilerplate

This module is used in a theme boilerplate. You probably want to use that directly.

Installation

composer require nicholas-wordpress/core

Extending

This is an Underpin module, and the entrypoint for it is using the function nicholas, and it comes built-in with a handful of loaders:

1. Script loader
2. Rest Endpoint Loader
3. Meta Loader
4. Option Loader
5. Template Loader
6. Decision List Loader

Scripts

This module assumes that your theme has 3 scripts built-into the build directory of your theme:

1. admin.js - Gets enqueued in the settings screen located in Settings>>>Nicholas Settings
2. editor.js - Gets enqueued on block editor pages
3. theme.js - Gets enqueued on front-end pages that are not using compatibility mode
4. sessionManager.js - Forces a session to clear the cache if the nicholas_flush_cache cookie is set.

REST Endpoints

This module loads in a set of endpoints in the nicholas/v1 namespace. These endpoints are used by the various scripts mentioned above to run the nearly-headless paradigm.