“Unlock the Future of Web Development: Discover the Hidden Powers of Headless WordPress!”
A Headless setup comes with some potential drawbacks, including:
- More maintenance work: Two separate codebases and technologies powering the front-end and back-end create complexities that you don’t have to deal with when using a traditional WordPress setup.
- The wide selection of themes, patterns, and design functionality WordPress is known for will be largely unavailable: You will be responsible for implementing much of this from scratch with code. How will you handle blog comments? How about contact forms? This functionality is built into the WordPress software to make it easier for end-users to implement.
- Not all plugins support Headless setups: You may have to extend plugins or manually expose plugin data to the REST API or GraphQL.
- Managing two hosting environments: You’ll need one environment for the WordPress backend and one for the frontend. For many sites, the frontend can be hosted as static files on the edge using technologies like GitHub, AWS Cloudfront, Cloudflare, or several other static file hosts.
Things to keep in mind before opting for a Headless site
Still not sure if a Headless WordPress setup is right for you? Consider the following:
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