How To Migrate From WordPress To A Headless CMS

SOURCE: Smashing Magazine

WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. It makes sense, because it allows you to quickly create websites and has a rich plugin’s ecosystem to help you scale your site.

But technology is evolving, and there are more and more options that make it easier to create websites. Moreover, they give us the possibility to improve the website’s performance and to have more control and security over the application.

The initial WordPress architecture is monolithic, so the user interface and data access are combined on the same platform.

Since the introduction of the REST API on WordPress, it can be used in a headless way, allowing developers to use it as a backend and having the front-end in a different project….