How Hi-Rez Studios Built Their Web Infra On Gatsby & WordPress
Game development company Hi-Rez Studios was blocked from creating ambitious, interactive web experiences for their user community — until they went headless with WordPress and Gatsby.

Game development company Hi-Rez Studios was blocked from creating ambitious, interactive web experiences for their user community — until they went headless with WordPress and Gatsby.
When Covid-19 hit the U.K. last spring, the Royal College of Art’s traditional graduating student shows were shut down. With a little help from Gatsby, though, the school worked with MTJ.io to quickly create a brand new digital discovery platform -- a museum’s worth of virtual galleries -- so that the shows could go on(line) in time.
Gatsby's plugins, starters, and themes let you assemble websites like Lego models, without ever touching React. But you can learn React deeply with Gatsby! Start with this Gatsby + WordPress mobile photoblog project (no prior React knowledge needed), then remix and expand it as your knowledge of React, GraphQL, and the Gatsby ecosystem grows!
Hashim Warren • February 18th, 2021
# CMS, Gatsby Cloud, headless-cms, wordpressWhen Facebook needed to build an information onramp for Diem, their soon-to-launch global digital payment system, they turned to Boulder, Colorado-based Dfuzr Industries -- and Dfuzr turned to Gatsby.
Gatsby's WordPress integration combines the fastest front-end framework with the most popular CMS!
Joel Varty, president of Agility CMS, will be speaking at GatsbyConf on March 2nd! His presentation "Architecting Fullstack Solutions in a Jamstack World" will show why Jamstack architecture is more than just a frontend and discuss the kinds of solutions that Jamstack is great at solving. Joel will also demonstrate how you can add existing APIs onto your Jamstack solution -- and how you can build new APIs to solve unique customer problems. We caught up with Joel for a quick pre-conf chat about Gatsby and the Jamstack.
When it comes to WordPress, going headless refers to keeping the familiar WordPress interface for collaborating on content creation, editing and updating. However, behind the scenes, you’ve ditched the cumbersome WordPress theme layer for faster and more efficient architecture powering how your content gets built, deployed, and presented to viewers.
How JAMstack specialists Jambaree rebuilt Real Cedar's website to perform five times faster while adding a host of new functionality, using headless WordPress powered with Gatsby.