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title: Getting GraphiQL with WordPress
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## Questions

1. Tell us a little bit about your background.
2. How did you get involved in GraphQl with WordPress?
3. Will GraphQL ever get put into the WordPress core?
4. What is the easiest way to setup WordPress and WPGraphQL for a greenfield project?
5. WPGraphQL demo.
6. GraphQL Fragments - [https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/data/fragments/](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/data/fragments/)
7. Pagination - [https://graphql.org/learn/pagination/](https://graphql.org/learn/pagination/)
8. Forward and Backward Pagination with WPGraphQL - [https://www.wpgraphql.com/2020/03/26/forward-and-backward-pagination-with-wpgraphql/](https://www.wpgraphql.com/2020/03/26/forward-and-backward-pagination-with-wpgraphql/)
9. Atlas Content Model Demo

## Additional Links

- WPGraphQL GitHub - https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql
- WPGraphQL Wordpress Plugin - [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-graphql/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-graphql/)
- Wordpress to Jamstack - [https://codingcat.dev/podcast/1-11-moving-from-wordpress-to-jamstack](https://codingcat.dev/podcast/1-11-moving-from-wordpress-to-jamstack)
- Wordpress.tv
- developers.wpengine.com
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