{"id":13250,"date":"2021-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T09:35:32","slug":"headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Headless CMS, Headless WordPress, what is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it\/#What_is_a_CMS\" >What is a CMS?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it\/#What_is_a_Headless_CMS\" >What is a Headless CMS?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it\/#Headless_WordPress_How_does_it_work\" >Headless WordPress. How does it work?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it\/#Advantages_of_using_Headless_WordPress\" >Advantages of using Headless WordPress<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it\/#Performance_improvement\" >Performance improvement<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it\/#Mobile_Apps\" >Mobile Apps<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it\/#Multichannel_publication\" >Multichannel publication<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it\/#Security\" >Security<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/headless-cms-headless-wordpress-what-is-it\/#Conclusion\" >Conclusion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we already know, the technology field moves very fast and web pages creation is not far behind. Today, the most efficient and well-known tool to create your own website or blog is <\/span><b>WordPress, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">there is more than <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.40defiebre.com\/estadisticas-wordpress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">60% of pages built in WordPress<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the total that use CMS.&nbsp; <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lately, everyone is talking about the <\/span><b>Headless CMS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> concept within the web development field. At <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/web\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3ipunt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we have wide experience with WordPress, and therefore, we explain the concepts and functionalities of Headless CMS and, more specifically, Headless WP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_a_CMS\"><\/span><strong>What is a CMS?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To begin with, a CMS is a Content Management System. There are many on the market, but the best known and most used are surely WordPress and Drupal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A CMS consists of two parts: the one for <\/span><b>managing the content itself<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (back-end) and the one where those <\/span><b>contents are displayed for the user<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (front-end).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_a_Headless_CMS\"><\/span><strong>What is a Headless CMS?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that we know what a CMS is, the term Headless CMS refers to a <strong>CMS that does not have the content display and therefore<\/strong>, it is only responsible for creating and managing them from the back-end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, it also has to have an API, to be able to communicate with any system, interface and \/ or other API.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, in the case of WordPress, we only use it to create and manage the content but not to display it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among other things, the possibility of headless CMS to make content to several websites even though they are on another server, is very useful to facilitate the management of different projects using a single administrative interface.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Headless_WordPress_How_does_it_work\"><\/span><strong>Headless WordPress. How does it work?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since<strong> WordPress is one of the most used CMS in the world<\/strong>, and we, at 3ipunt, have <a href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/web-development\/\">extensive experience in WordPress development<\/a>, we will focus on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next question could be, and now how do we display content in WordPress?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, this connection would be made through the WordPress <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/rest-api\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REST API<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is already integrated into the WordPress core.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can already interact between the two APIs, and make the data call to WordPress and then, from the front-end and through JavaScript, this data is collected and displayed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/infografia_headless-3.png\" alt=\"Graphic of how the Headless CMS works\" class=\"wp-image-5061\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Advantages_of_using_Headless_WordPress\"><\/span><strong>Advantages of using Headless WordPress<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Performance_improvement\"><\/span><strong>Performance improvement<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Making only API calls to display content, is loaded much faster, meaning that Headless WordPress can improve the <strong>speed of your website<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performance is important for search engine optimization (SEO) as well as user experience.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mobile_Apps\"><\/span><strong>Mobile Apps<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can easily use API calls in a Headless WordPress in order to create native mobile applications.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Multichannel_publication\"><\/span><strong>Multichannel publication<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Creating content on a single site, that can be displayed on different platforms. Multichannel publishing can<strong> save a lot of time<\/strong> if your company has many channels to maintain. Instead of changing the format of the content on each platform separately, you will only have to publish it once.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Security\"><\/span><strong>Security<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Separating the front-end and the back-end, we improve the <strong>security of the system<\/strong>, as there is no direct connection to the database.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conclusion\"><\/span><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Headless CMS opens <strong>new possibilities<\/strong>, such as mobile apps, Internet Of Things, sharing content with bots, etc., leaving behind some limitations that did not allow us to see the talent and creativity of the teams.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore with a Headless CMS we are <strong>prepared for the future<\/strong> as we have the possibility to create simple modifications without affecting the complete content management system.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that you know more about Headless WP, if you want to have the best website, from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tresipunt.com\/en\/web\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3ipunt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we can help you achieve it. 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