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As you probably already know, WordPress is a powerful platform for creating websites. As a Content Management System (CMS), WordPress offers publishing features that are easy to use. And you can expand WordPress to do nearly anything you want to do. But have you heard of “headless” WordPress?
In this guide, you’ll learn exactly what headless WordPress is. You’ll understand the situations that may lead you to use it and the times when using headless WordPress isn’t the best idea. Beyond that, we’ll look at some of the most popular front-end and stack solutions that are typically used with headless WordPress deployments.
Before getting too deep into WordPress as a headless CMS, it’s important first to understand what exactly a CMS is and the problems it was designed to solve. What would make one “headless,” and why might this be useful in some cases? Who might find it useful?