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Headless

Content sites that stay fast once the words pile up.

Headless
Contentful, Strapi, Payload
WordPress
Built lean, kept lean
Editors
Fields your team understands
Search
Schema, speed, clean URLs

Headless CMS development

Sites that are mostly words

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Headless

A CMS your team edits, a site that loads instantly

Built with

Payload, Strapi or WordPress

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Editorial

Articles, authors and categories that search engines understand

  • Marketing sites
  • Documentation
  • Multi-author blogs
AI-generatedNext.js front ends
AI-generatedStructured data
AI-generatedMigrations from WordPress
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The CMSs, by name

Contentful, Strapi, Payload, WordPress and Drupal

A CMS is where your team writes the content; the website is what visitors see. Headless means the two are separate, so the same content can feed a website, an app and a store.

Jump to a section
  1. Contentful
  2. Strapi
  3. Payload and Next.js
  4. WordPress, classic or headless
  5. Drupal

Contentful developer

Contentful

Contentful is a hosted headless CMS used by brands with a lot of structured content across websites, apps and regions. Work on it covers content modelling, migrations between spaces and environments, a Next.js front end reading from its APIs, and connecting it to the store so editorial content and products sit side by side.

Headless CMS

Strapi

Strapi is an open-source headless CMS you host yourself: content types defined for your business, an editor your team can use, and an API a Next.js front end reads from. It suits teams that want control over their content model and their hosting.

Headless CMS

Payload and Next.js

Payload is a TypeScript CMS that runs inside a Next.js application, so the website and the editing screens are one codebase. It is a good fit for content-heavy sites built by a small team, with fewer moving parts to host.

WordPress

WordPress, classic or headless

WordPress is still the CMS most teams already know. It can run as a normal website, or headless with a Next.js front end reading its content, which keeps the familiar editor and gives a faster, safer site. Themes are built without heavy page builders where possible.

Drupal

Drupal

Drupal suits large, structured sites with complex permissions and many editors, common in the public sector and education. I work on existing Drupal sites, upgrades and integrations with the systems around them.

Do we need a headless CMS?

Not always..

Headless earns its keep when the same content feeds several places, or when the website needs to be faster and safer than a traditional theme allows. For a straightforward content site, a well-built WordPress is often enough.

  • Which CMS should we use?

    It depends on who edits, how structured the content is, and where it must appear. The first call is for working that out before anything is built.

  • Can a CMS connect to our store?

    Yes. Content and products can live side by side, with the CMS feeding editorial pages and the store handling the catalogue and checkout.

  • Can you move us off our current CMS?

    Yes, with the content migrated, old addresses redirected and editors trained on the new one.

  • Where is it hosted?

    Next.js front ends usually on Vercel; the CMS on managed hosting chosen with you and registered to you.

Available for new work

UK based · PHP · Python · JS · TS. Every first call is free.