WPGraphQL

WPGraphQL Integration

First steps

If you don't have WPGraphQL installed, install it from the official WordPress repository.

Once it's installed, go to the main ACPT dashboard.

If you want to enable support for a particular custom post type, go to Edit > Settings, and here you'll find three new fields:

• Show in GraphQL - set to true

• GraphQL single name - the single name used for GraphQL queries

• GraphQL plural name - the plural name used for GraphQL queries

Single and plural names must be different.

Please note that Post and Page posts have the WPGraphQL support enabled by default.

Performing base queries

Open up the GraphiQL IDE provided by WPGraphQL. Suppose you have a CPT named movie. In the left sidebar navigate to movies node; you'll notice a node called acpt in the edges.

Click to expand it. You find two main subnodes:

• meta: the meta boxes array representation

• product_data: the product data array (only for WooCommerce product CPT)

Now try to run this query by selecting all the meta subnodes:

{
  movies {
    edges {
      node {
        databaseId
        title
        acpt {
          meta {
            meta_box
            meta_fields {
              name
              type
              values
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

You'll obtain something like this:

More advanced queries

ACPT extends the base RootQuery adding the possibility to perform queries on meta.

Go again to movies, but this time expand the query node. Notice the meta_query subnode.

This node contains two subnodes:

• elements - the array of query elements:

  • compare

  • key

  • type

  • value

  • value_num

• relation - possible values: OR AND

As you can imagine this mimics the WP Query logic.

This is an example of a query performed on meta fields:

{
  movies(
    where: {
      query: {
        meta_query: { elements: [{ key: "info_altro", value: "value" }] }
      }
    }
  ) {
    edges {
      node {
        id
        databaseId
        title
      }
    }
  }
}

We encourage you to use WPGraphQL in your projects, and read more about headless CMS Wordpress.