How Blogs Work

Overview

Blog posts are written and edited in WordPress at cms.aerialps.com, but they are served as pages from aerialps.com. The two are connected at request time via SSR; on (user) demand fetching, we get fresh information from Wordpress on each visit.

Creating posts

Going to Pages → New in the WordPress Admin Panel will not create a blog post visible on the main site. All blog content must be created from the Posts tab.

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The publishing pipeline

1. Write the post in the WordPress Admin Panel under Posts → Add New at cms.aerialps.com.

2. Publish the post in WordPress.

3. The page is live immediately. aerialps.com fetches blog content from WordPress dynamically on each visit - no further action required.

Static pages are different

The rebuild requirement applies to static pages (non-blog content) only. Those are pre-generated at build time and require a redeploy to reflect changes.

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The blog parser

aerialps.com includes a built-in HTML parser that reads the raw HTML content from each WordPress post and renders it with custom styles applied.

Write freely in WordPress

Any valid HTML the WordPress editor produces will be handled by the parser.

Styles live in Astro

Custom styles are applied by the parser on the Astro side - not inside WordPress. I know. It may be very tempting.

If you find an unstyled element

Caution

Do not add styles inside the WordPress post editor. This causes inconsistent rendering and unexpected bugs. Instead, contact Vladimir or Gabriela with a screenshot, the fix belongs in the blog parser component in the Astro codebase.

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