Unlock scalability withheadless Wordpress
Embrace the modern approach to content management with WordPress, delivering improved performance, enhanced security, and the flexibility to create scalable websites and applications.
Why choose headless WordPress?
Headless WordPress opens up exciting possibilities for your website or application, offering significant benefits that can transform your digital experience.
Multichannel content delivery
Easily manage content in a single CMS and publish it across multiple platforms, including websites, mobile apps, and more, ensuring consistency and efficiency.
Built for scalability
The decoupled architecture allows your platform to handle increasing traffic and content demands effortlessly, making it perfect for growing businesses and enterprises.
Unmatched front-end flexibility
Choose modern front-end technologies like React, Vue, or any framework that fits your project, giving you complete creative and technical freedom.
Improved performance
Achieve faster load times and better user experiences by eliminating traditional database queries and relying on streamlined APIs for content delivery.
Enhanced security
By decoupling the front end from the back end, headless WordPress significantly reduces vulnerabilities and strengthens your platform’s overall security.
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Arrange a callHeadless WordPress explained
Headless WordPress is a modern approach to using WordPress as a backend content management system (CMS) while separating the front-end user interface. Unlike traditional monolithic WordPress, where the backend and front-end are tightly connected, headless WordPress uses an API to deliver content to a front end built with modern frameworks like React or Vue.js.
This decoupled setup offers greater flexibility in design and development, allowing developers to build highly customised user experiences. It also enhances security by isolating the backend from the public-facing front end, reducing vulnerabilities.
Additionally, headless WordPress improves scalability, making it easier to handle growing traffic and deliver content seamlessly across websites, mobile apps, and other platforms.
The Drawbacks of headless Wordpress
While headless WordPress offers a range of advantages, it’s not the ideal solution for every project. Here are some key challenges to consider:
Increased complexity
Decoupling the front end and back end requires technical expertise, making it a bigger challenge to implement and maintain compared to traditional WordPress.
Higher setup costs
Implementation and setup are likely to be more expensive compared to traditional WordPress, which is quicker to get started with.
Maintenance overhead
Managing separate systems for the front end and back end can increase ongoing maintenance requirements.
Loss of plugin convenience
Traditional WordPress plugins may not work in a headless setup, requiring custom solutions to replicate their functionality.
Unsure if headless WordPress is right for you?
If you’re unsure whether headless WordPress is the right choice for your project, contact us to discuss your options.




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Got questions?
We’ve got the answers to all the most commonly asked questions about headless WordPress.
Choosing the right CMS setup is an important part of your project, as there’s no one solution that’s right for everyone.
We work closely with our clients to ensure they get the right CMS for their unique needs, whether that’s headless WordPress, or a completely different CMS solution..
The cost of a headless WordPress website varies a lot depending on what you need it to do for you.
Not every WordPress website can be made headless, there are certain setups and plugins that might make your website unsuitable for headless migration.
However, even if that is the case, there may be alternative steps you can take, and your agency should help guide you towards the best solution to meet your needs.
One of the joys of headless WordPress is that you can build the front end in a huge range of different frameworks. Some of our most popular choices are React or Vue.js.
There are security benefits to moving to headless WordPress, and you can expect your website to be less vulnerable to things like brute force attacks or SQL injection.
Headless WordPress can be a little more expensive to set up than traditional WordPress, and it also commonly comes with higher ongoing costs for hosting and maintenance. However, for many people this is offset by the large increases in page speed, performance and security.
Headless WordPress is typically more expensive to set up and run, and you may also find that it’s not compatible with all available plugins.
For any project, we recommend weighing up the pros and cons of using a particular CMS setup, and choosing the one that’s right for your exact needs and requirements.
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Hannah Laird
Client Manager