Creating the Home page with Tailwind CSS – Next.js + Headless WordPress Blog [Part 5]

In this article, we will be discussing how to create the home page for our blog using Tailwind CSS, Next.js, and Headless WordPress. This is the fifth part of our series, where we will be focusing on the design and layout of our blog’s home page.

Getting Started

Before we begin, make sure you have Tailwind CSS, Next.js, and Headless WordPress set up in your project. If you haven’t done so already, you can refer to the previous parts of our series for guidance on setting up these technologies.

Creating the Home Page

First, let’s create a new file for our home page called index.js inside the pages directory of our Next.js project. Here, we will define the layout and content for our home page.

“`javascript
// index.js

import React from ‘react’;
import Layout from ‘../components/Layout’;
import PostList from ‘../components/PostList’;

const Home = () => {
return (

);
};

export default Home;
“`

In the above code, we are creating a new React component called Home which serves as the home page of our blog. Inside the component, we include a layout wrapper and a list of posts using the PostList component.

Styling with Tailwind CSS

Next, let’s style our home page using Tailwind CSS. We can add classes directly to our JSX code to apply styling and layout to our components. For example, we can use the container class to center our content and the text-4xl class to set the heading size.

Fetching Data from Headless WordPress

Finally, we need to fetch the list of blog posts from our Headless WordPress backend and pass it to the PostList component. We can use the getStaticProps function in Next.js to fetch the data at build time and pass it as props to our component.

“`javascript
// index.js

export const getStaticProps = async () => {
const res = await fetch(‘https://yourwordpresssite.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts’);
const posts = await res.json();

return {
props: { posts }
};
};
“`

In the code above, we are fetching the list of posts from our Headless WordPress site and passing it as props to our Home component. We can then use this data to populate the PostList component with the list of blog posts.

Conclusion

By following these steps, we have successfully created the home page for our blog using Tailwind CSS, Next.js, and Headless WordPress. In the next part of our series, we will focus on adding pagination and navigation to our blog. Stay tuned for more updates!