CMS
A CMS is the system you use to change text and images on your own site. What it costs, when you need one and when you do not.
Read more →What is a headless CMS?
A headless CMS manages only the content and does not decide how the site looks. What that buys you and who it is overkill for.
What it is
In an ordinary CMS the content and the presentation live in the same system: WordPress stores your text and decides how the page is assembled. In a headless CMS those are separated. The CMS stores only the content and delivers it through an interface, and separate software decides how it looks.
"Headless" means literally: without a head. The system has no front end of its own.
Why it might matter to you
- You keep the editability of a CMS without the visitor ever touching it — the site they load is pre-built and therefore fast.
- The admin area does not sit on the outside of your website, which shrinks the attack surface considerably.
- The same content can go to several places: your site, an app, a screen in the showroom.
- It is dearer to set up than an ordinary CMS, and for an eight-page site that rarely changes it is overkill.
How we handle it
This is the shape we recommend once a client both wants to edit things themselves and cares about speed. In practice it is often the middle ground between everything fixed and a full WordPress: exactly the two or three parts that genuinely change become editable, the rest stays pre-built.
Related terms
Static website
A static site is built in advance instead of assembled per visitor. That makes it faster, safer and cheaper to host.
Read more →API
An API is how two systems talk to each other. Why that decides whether your packages will ever work together.
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