Headless CMS. Everything in one place.

A traditional CMS like classic WordPress stores your content and also renders the website from its own themes and templates. A headless CMS keeps only the first job. Editors still write and organize content in a familiar admin, but the CMS delivers that content through an API, usually REST or GraphQL, and a separate front end decides how it looks. That front end is often a framework such as Next.js, but the same content can also feed a mobile app, a storefront, kiosks or anything else that can call an API.

Separating the two gives you freedom: developers can choose the front-end stack, pages can be pre-rendered and served from a CDN for speed, content can be reused across channels, and the editing system doesn't have to be exposed to the public internet. The trade-offs are just as real. You need developers to build and maintain the front end, editors may lose some of the visual page-building they're used to unless the platform offers live preview or visual editing, and SEO essentials such as rendering, metadata, sitemaps and redirects become the front end's responsibility rather than a plugin's.

The guides below walk through that decision in order: understand the architecture, decide whether it fits, choose a platform and front end, plan the migration, and get it built.