Koru

Koru is a UX/UI design company's website, and a clean example of pairing a modern Next.js frontend with a headless WordPress content backend over GraphQL.

A marketing and content site for a design company, where content is authored in WordPress and served through GraphQL to a decoupled Next.js frontend.

Professional Experience · Salt Technology

• Built the Next.js frontend against a headless WordPress backend, with WPGraphQL as the data layer between them
• Mapped the studio's content types — services, process, insights and project work — onto components editors could fill without frontend changes
• Wrote and tuned the GraphQL queries behind each page, trimming query shape and payload to what the page actually rendered
• Implemented the responsive layouts across the site's content pages
• Took the performance, security and scalability characteristics of the JAMstack setup as part of the build rather than a later pass

Content teams want the familiarity of WordPress; users want a fast, modern site. A headless architecture has to satisfy both without either side compromising the other.

• Used a JAMstack pattern — static generation where content allowed it, GraphQL fetched at build or request time depending on the page.

• Integrated WPGraphQL as the data layer between WordPress and the Next.js frontend
• Built reusable, responsive components mapped to WordPress content types
• Optimized GraphQL query shape and payload size to reduce load time
• Applied JAMstack performance and security practices across the deployed site

Koru shipped as a fast, content-manageable marketing site on a decoupled architecture.