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WordPress has existed for over 20 years, powering 42.7% of all the websites on the Internet, according to W3Techs. It also holds a 62.5% market share for content management systems (CMSs) behind websites.
Today, many programming languages and frameworks are available to build user-friendly, high-performance websites that are way faster than WordPress, no matter what optimization you do in your WordPress dashboard. One example is Next.js, a popular React framework.
This guide shows how to use WordPress as a headless CMS, providing data for your Next.js application. It also explains deploying your Next.js code as a static site to Kinsta’s free Static Site Hosting service.