Enable wifi

Configuration
1

Is there a way to have the pi use wifi instead of needing a hardwired connection? (hassbian noob here)

2

Yes.

If you want it enabled from the very first boot without a screen/keyboardf you need to create the file wpa_supplicant.conf in the boot directory with your wifi settings, also create an empty file called ‘ssh’ in the same directory to enable ssh.

Otherwise you need to edit the files /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and /etc/network/interfaces

Plenty of tutorials online, but the interesting parts of the settings looks something like this:

#/etc/network/interfaces
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

# wpa_supplicant.conf 
network={
  ssid="<SSID>"
  psk="<YOURKEY>"
}