https://lalicat.com

Lalicat Project Overview

Lalicat is a two-part web platform: a WordPress backend that manages content and exposes custom REST APIs, and a Next.js frontend that renders multilingual pages for the website, blog, and support docs.

Architecture

Layer	Stack	Responsibility
Backend	WordPress theme (Twenty Twenty-Two based) + custom PHP API extensions	Content management, custom REST endpoints (/wp-json/lalicat/*), translation caching, sitemap/support/blog data
Frontend	Next.js 12 + React 17 + Tailwind CSS	UI rendering, SEO metadata, static generation + ISR, multilingual routing

Key Features

1. Multilingual site support for 9 locales: en, fr, de, ru, vi, ja, es, pt, it.
2. Custom WordPress REST APIs for posts, single pages/posts by slug, blog index, docs sidebar, support index, releases, reviews, sitemap, and contact submission.
3. Translation workflow that auto-translates non-English content and stores results in WordPress transients for long-term caching.
4. Frontend SEO integration with next-seo, plus sitemap-driven discoverability.
5. Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) across key pages for fast delivery with periodic content refresh.
6. Blog pagination and sharing integrations for content distribution.

Repository Structure

backend/                 # WordPress theme + custom API logic (inc/custom_api.php)
frontend/lalicat-master/ # Next.js application

Frontend Local Development

cd frontend/lalicat-master
npm install
npm run dev

The frontend consumes WordPress endpoints under the lalicat namespace (configured in frontend/lalicat-master/lib/constants.js).