Keeping search logic inside WordPress is often the safest choice when a site depends on editorial fidelity. Query rules, post status, password protection, taxonomy visibility, scheduled publishing, sticky posts, and preview behavior already exist there. Reusing those rules reduces drift…
When preview opens the homepage, the wrong post, or a 404, the failure is usually in URL mapping rather than draft retrieval. In many headless setups, the frontend never reaches the intended resource, so changing GraphQL queries, REST filters, or…
Teams that want a real split between content and presentation often land here. WordPress remains the editorial system, while Astro handles the visitor-facing site with modern build performance, cleaner component control, and fewer theme-era constraints. That makes this route meaningfully…
What is actually being rejected “Without raw HTML hacks” does not mean Gutenberg content contains no HTML. It means a headless build does not treat the post_content string as a frontend API, scrape CSS hooks from saved markup, or patch…
Before any field list is drafted, the model needs its business objects. These are the things that would still exist if WordPress disappeared tomorrow: a product, event, person, location, episode, policy, or campaign. Fields come later. An easy test is…
Plugins that print markup into the theme layer are usually the first obvious failures in a headless build. In classic WordPress, a plugin can hook into the_content, inject schema, output a form, append related posts, or render breadcrumbs, and the…
“Headless” describes an architecture, not a different CMS. WordPress does not disappear; its headthe theme layer that turns database content into HTML pagesis removed or bypassed. In its place, another application, often built with React, Next.js, or a mobile framework,…
