Headless WordPress

Headless WordPress, built for speed and scale.

Keep the WordPress editor your team loves and ship a blazing-fast React or Next.js frontend on top of it. We build headless WordPress architectures that hit perfect Core Web Vitals, scale to enterprise traffic, and decouple your content from your presentation layer.

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The CMS your team knows. The performance your users expect.

Headless WordPress separates content management from the frontend. Editors keep the familiar WordPress dashboard; visitors get a statically-generated or server-rendered site that loads almost instantly.

Near-Instant Load

Static generation and edge delivery mean sub-second loads and Core Web Vitals that pass comfortably on mobile.

Hardened Security

With no public-facing PHP, your WordPress admin is decoupled and shielded from the most common attack surface.

Omnichannel Content

One WordPress backend can power your website, app, and other channels through a single API.

Our Headless Stack

WordPress backend, modern JavaScript frontend.

We expose your content through the WordPress REST API or WPGraphQL and build the frontend in Next.js or Gatsby, deployed to Vercel or a global edge network. You keep Advanced Custom Fields, Gutenberg, and your editorial workflow — visitors just never touch WordPress directly.

  • WPGraphQL or REST API content layer
  • Next.js / React frontend with incremental static regeneration
  • Edge deployment on Vercel for global performance
  • Preview support so editors still see drafts before publishing
  • Headless WooCommerce for decoupled e-commerce
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Is Headless Right for You?

Powerful — when the use case justifies it.

Headless is the right call for high-traffic publishers, content-heavy marketing sites, and teams that need to feed multiple channels from one source of truth. For a straightforward brochure site, a well-built traditional theme is often the smarter investment — and we'll tell you so honestly.

  • Ideal for high-traffic and performance-critical sites
  • Great when content powers a website and an app together
  • Best when an in-house or partner dev team maintains the frontend
  • Not always necessary — we recommend traditional builds when they fit
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Common questions about headless WordPress.

Headless WordPress uses WordPress purely as a content management backend and serves the frontend with a separate technology — typically React or Next.js — via the WordPress REST API or WPGraphQL. Your editors keep the WordPress dashboard while visitors get a faster, decoupled frontend.
It can be. A headless frontend lets us deliver near-perfect Core Web Vitals, static rendering, and full control over markup and structured data — all strong technical SEO signals. The key is server-side rendering or static generation so search engines see fully-rendered content, which is exactly how we build.
Headless projects start higher than traditional WordPress builds because they involve two codebases — typically from £15,000 — and scale with frontend complexity and integrations. We will tell you honestly whether headless is worth the investment for your use case.
Yes. We configure preview support so your team can view drafts on the headless frontend before publishing, preserving the familiar WordPress editing experience.
Yes — we are a London-based WordPress agency and build headless WordPress architectures for clients in London, across the UK, and internationally.

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