“Unlock the Future of Web Development: Discover the Hidden Powers of Headless WordPress!”
- Custom code and experiences: A Headless build requires developer time and technical decisions tailored to your project. You should ask yourself if the flexibility of Headless architecture is really necessary for your project.
- Technology familiarity: Are you or your team more used to working with PHP or JavaScript?
- Your project’s goals: While Headless sites offer more flexibility and may increase performance (plus they’re unique, challenging, and fun sites for developers to build), these projects often require increased complexity and more time spent on development.
- WordPress’ under-the-hood tech: Without WordPress’ built-in caching and optimization features, you’ll need to implement these yourself using a caching layer or service.
- Cache strategies: With an optimized caching strategy that integrates CDN edge servers with server-side caching—such as Varnish, NGINX FastCGI cache, or a WordPress caching plugin—a WordPress site may achieve performance levels comparable to a static site.
- WordPress is SEO-friendly out of the box: With a Headless strategy, you must ensure that the front-end handles SEO properly. This would involve SSR or SSG, which is already supported in common front-end frameworks. You would also need to fetch SEO data from WordPress (such as whether a page should be indexed, its SEO title, and its metadata). Redirects must also be appropriately handled, as you’ll lose the built-in WordPress permalink handling with a Headless setup.
- RSS feeds and sitemaps: With a Headless setup, this functionality may need to be coded and served from the frontend; it is already provided in WordPress core (and Jetpack if you’re hosting on WordPress.com).
Your Headless WordPress roadmap: Getting started
So Headless WordPress is right for your project? Here’s a quick getting started guide to help you out.
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