Angular & Headless WordPress

If this works, I’m happy!

One quiet afternoon, I sat down with a not-entirely-naive thought: Can I get an Angular frontend working against a headless WordPress backend? It was one of those ideas that seemed straightforward enough in theory — decouple the interface from WordPress’s theming system and drive the UI entirely from APIs — but, as anyone who’s ever wired up a headless CMS will tell you, the devil lives in the details. Between mapping out REST calls, shaping the data to fit Angular’s structures, and teasing out reliable content flows, what started as a simple experiment slowly turned into a four-day deep dive into client-side architecture and WordPress’s API quirks. What I didn’t quite appreciate at the outset was how many little hurdles, from routing to state management, would have to be cleared before the project could even feel like a real application.

After four painstaking days of incremental progress — debugging requests, refining interfaces, and coaxing the frontend and backend to play nicely together — there’s now a working version of the thing. The code compiles, the API responds, and, most importantly, the UI loads content from WordPress exactly the way I envisioned. It’s not just a proof of concept anymore; it’s a real snippet of frontend + headless WP wizardry that validates the idea and gives a solid foundation for whatever I build next. There’s something quietly satisfying about looking at that working UI and knowing that, just a few days ago, it didn’t exist — all born out of curiosity, persistence, and the kind of stubborn workflows that make web development both challenging and rewarding.