The Power of Headless CMS

With WordPress, you have an admin dashboard where content comes alive – that’s the CMS part. This content then gets displayed on your actual website, that’s the front end. With traditional CMS, content is hitched to the design platform, in this case WordPress, which unfortunately turns into a frustrating ordeal when you're trying to deploy content across multiple platforms, such as a website, a mobile app, or even a smartwatch app.

Enter headless CMS; a liberating content management solution where you don't have to juggle different versions and formats of the same content for different platforms. Instead, you can create your content once and publish it everywhere. No more struggling with the technicalities of front-end code updates using WordPress’ coding language, PHP.

With a headless WordPress CMS, you utilise the backend, i.e., your admin dashboard, to create that engaging content, which is subsequently exposed through an API. That might seem like geek talk, but it's a standardized method that allows various applications to speak the same language. With the API, if you have the credentials, you can seamlessly pull the content and display it anywhere, just the way you like it.

This makes headless CMS the darling of developers as it offers an all-access pass to utilise any technology or framework they prefer for building the front-end. This CMS strategy pulls the content from the API and allows it to be used independent of the CMS, offering you unbounded flexibility in design development.

To sum it up, headless CMS comes with a plethora of advantages. A significant one being flexibility; you can connect it to any app, and these apps can individually employ a variety of coding languages. The intricate mechanism of connecting the CMS to apps is through API, a tool for programs to communicate using a common language and format.

But with all good things comes a caveat or two. Headless CMS doesn’t offer pre-made templates, pushing developers to code most things from scratch. While it offers flexibility, it owns a technically complex nature requiring a team to connect the CMS to various apps. This potentially factors into a higher cost, making it a more expensive option.

However, the most important point to remember is that without a professionally designed, elegant website, you leave a lot of money on the table. Now, armed with insight into what headless CMS signifies and its pros and cons, it's time to level up your website's visual appeal and professionalism. Look out for our following posts where we share tips on how to make your website look ten times more professional and convert visitors into customers.