Web Components in WP, Gutenberg and as HTML plugins.

The WP REST API creates enormous opportunities for WordPress across the entire Internet. Content can be made available anywhere on the Internet. This means new business opportunities for WP developers and agencies.

Web Components are Custom HTML tags that we can create and are part of the browser specification. HMTL code and JavaScript can be wrapped into a Custom HTML tag and used like regular HTML. Think ‘widgets’ or HTML plugins.

Being framework agnostic, we can create our own HTML tags to use in our WP pages, Gutenberg blocks or even create HTML/JS/CSS ‘plugins’ to deploy in any HTML site. In two lines of code, an HTML tag and a reference to a JavaScript file, we can use WP as a micro app/service in any site, able to be programmatically configured as needed.

With WP deployed as a highly functional component in any other site, the opportunities for increased exposure and business opportunities are now available to us.

This expands WP out from 1/3 into 100% Internet. A new metric emerges, not just how many WP sites there are, but how many sites ‘use’ WP.

This talk will be split between the technology and the business implications and uses.

Speaker

By Craig West

I am a 58 year old freelance trainer and architect living in Brighton, UK. I focus on bringing together the WP and non-WP worlds by advocating WP-HTML, ‘where there is HTML, there is WP’. He is based in Brighton and attends the local WordUp meetings. With a previous career in business and accounting, as well as having run his own non-IT business, Craig can speak both technical and business. He believes that technology serves the user, not the other way around, so the user experience is paramount. HI have spoken at WP events and is interested in Web Components, Progressive Web Apps, WP REST API and have a developing interest in pages that are ‘instant’ and/or offline capable.