Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Show HN: New GraphQL API for WordPress (1.5 years of development, 16000 commits) ( github.com/leoloso ) 21 points by leoloso 2 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments Kwpolska 15 minutes ago | next [–] What real-life use-cases do you envison for a GraphQL API for WordPress? What does it solve that the existing REST APIs cannot? Why would you make a GraphQL API out of a CMS for (primarily, out of the box) blogs? reply dimmke 10 minutes ago | parent | next [–] WordPress serves as kind of an ad hoc CMS for many different kinds of backends. Because it’s easy to extend and a lot of people are familiar with it. When I worked at the CDC, the entire backend of cdc.gov was a heavily HEAVILY customized version of WordPress that did static publishing. I’d guess it’s still...