WPGraphQL is powerful and easy to overexpose. Dumping every post meta field into the schema feels fast in week one and becomes a breaking-change factory by month three.
Practices that hold up:
- Name for consumers — frontend-friendly type and field names, not raw PHP class names.
- Ship fewer, clearer types — model the pages you render, not every admin screen.
- Document breaking changes — treat schema edits like API releases for web and mobile clients.
- Preview early — draft strategies belong in the model phase, not as a launch surprise.
That contract is also what lets a React Native app reuse the same content API as your Next.js site later—without a second CMS.
