WordPress, eCommerce, custom development and high-converting landing pages.
We decouple WordPress from its front end and rebuild the presentation layer in React or Next.js — connected through the REST API or WPGraphQL. WordPress stays your team’s content backend; the front end gets the speed, flexibility, and multi-channel reach a theme can’t deliver.
Headless WordPress is a real architectural decision with real trade-offs, not an automatic upgrade. We recommend it when one or more of these apply, and we’ll tell you honestly when it doesn’t.
The same articles, products, or data feeding a website, a mobile app, a kiosk, or a partner integration from one WordPress backend, instead of duplicating content across systems.
High-traffic publishers, marketplaces, or lead-gen sites where sub-second load times and top-tier Core Web Vitals scores directly affect revenue or rankings.
An existing engineering team with React expertise gets to keep using it, with WordPress supplying content instead of dictating the tech stack.
Custom interactions, dashboards, filtering, or app-like experiences that would mean fighting a WordPress theme rather than building on it.
CRMs, product information management, booking engines, or internal tools talking to WordPress data programmatically. See API Integration for standalone integration work.
If none of the above apply, a traditional build is faster to launch and cheaper to maintain. See Custom WordPress Development or WordPress Development — headless isn't the default, and we won't sell it to you as one.
Headless WordPress isn’t one product — it’s an architecture with distinct layers, each doing one job well instead of one plugin doing everything.
WordPress handles content modeling, custom post types, media, and the editorial workflow — nothing else.
A separate application renders every page, request, component, and route, independent of WordPress's own templating.
The connection between the two — content requested as structured data, not rendered HTML, over REST endpoints or a GraphQL schema.
WordPress and the front end deployed and scaled separately — typically WordPress on managed hosting, the front end on Vercel, Netlify, or similar.
Draft preview links and webhook-triggered revalidation, so editors see changes reflected without a full rebuild every time.
Custom post types and ACF fields modeled around what the front end needs to render, not around a theme's built-in layout.
How a page gets rendered directly affects both load speed and whether search engines see full content immediately. We choose the strategy per page type based on how often its content changes.
Pages pre-rendered to HTML at build time — the fastest possible delivery, ideal for content that doesn’t change often.
Pages rendered fresh on every request — full HTML delivered to crawlers and users, correct even for frequently changing or personalized data.
Static speed with periodic or webhook-triggered background regeneration, so content updates without a full site rebuild.
Removing WordPress’s public-facing theme removes an entire category of exploits — the front end simply never runs WordPress code that a visitor’s browser can reach.
Admin access restricted by IP, VPN, or custom login path — visitors never need to reach it, so it doesn't need to be publicly exposed.
API requests authenticated and rate-limited, preventing scraping, abuse, or unauthorized write access to your content.
With no theme rendering pages directly to visitors, common WordPress front-end exploits simply have nothing to target.
WordPress and the front end run on separate infrastructure, so a WordPress-side compromise doesn't automatically expose the live site.
The gap isn’t visual polish — it’s whether the page was built around a specific outcome from the start.
Compare Monolithic WordPress against Headless WordPress with Next.js/React.
Five stages take you from an existing site, or a blank slate, to a live decoupled architecture without losing content, rankings, or editorial continuity.
We review your current site, content structure, traffic patterns, and integration needs to confirm headless is the right call, and scope the exact architecture.
Custom post types, ACF fields, and the REST or WPGraphQL schema built to match what the front end needs to render.
The React or Next.js application built component by component, with rendering strategy assigned per template type.
Existing content, media, and URLs mapped and redirected correctly, preserving search rankings through the switch.
Cross-browser and performance testing, staged rollout, and documentation on how content changes flow from wp-admin to the live site.
In a normal WordPress site, WordPress generates both the content and the front end you see in the browser, usually through a theme. In a headless setup, WordPress only manages content, and a separate application, typically built in React or Next.js, requests that content through the REST API or WPGraphQL and renders the front end independently.
Yes. Your editorial team keeps using wp-admin exactly as they do now, including custom fields, media library, and revisions. The only difference is that saving a post triggers an API call or webhook that updates the front end, instead of WordPress rendering the page itself.
Not if it’s planned correctly. We choose a rendering strategy — static generation, server-side rendering, or incremental static regeneration — based on how often each page’s content changes, so search engines still receive fully rendered HTML. Headless sites often outperform traditional WordPress on Core Web Vitals, which is itself an SEO factor. If your existing site is slow, also see Website Speed Optimization
Yes. This is one of the more common projects we take on: exposing WordPress content through REST or WPGraphQL and wiring it into an existing front-end codebase, including authentication, preview mode, and content modeling for your existing components. See API Integration for standalone connection work.
Often, yes. If you run a brochure site, a small business site, or a blog without unusual performance or integration demands, a well-built traditional WordPress or Elementor site is faster to launch and cheaper to maintain. See our Custom wordpress development and WordPress development services for that path.
Most projects run 6 to 12 weeks depending on the number of templates, the complexity of the API layer, and whether you’re migrating an existing site. We scope timelines exactly during the architecture review before any work starts.
Every project is scoped individually — these tiers give you a starting point for the conversation.
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Headless Core
From $2,000
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Custom Headless BuildPopular
From $2,600
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Enterprise Decoupled
Custom Quote
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| Responsive development | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scalable CMS architecture | — | Editable Collections | Advanced & Multi-site |
| Interactions & animations | Basic triggers | Custom scroll & micro-interactions | Complex Motion UI |
| Integrations & APIs | — | Standard tools connected | Custom integrations |
| SEO foundations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Post-launch support | 15 days | 30 days | Dedicated developer time |
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Share your current site, your front-end stack (or lack of one), and what’s driving the move. Our team will review it and recommend the right approach — headless or not.
No pressure and no generic package. We will review your requirements before recommending a solution.
