Headless WordPress by WP Engine

The all-in-one headless solution for radically fast sites

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Single, end-to-end optimized headless platform

Incredible performance up to 10x classic WordPress

Flexible Node.js frontend, including Next & React

Diverse plans for any size project

Free, feature-complete sandbox environments

Rich resources, communities, and learning tools

60 day money-back guarantee

24/7 expert support for WordPress

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WP Engine employee working on Atlas Headless framework

A new way to build on WordPress

Headless solutions

Reduce time and money spent integrating multiple vendors with one end-to-end platform for building creative client experiences.

Ensure cost-savings, flexibility, and MarTech integrations with open-source development tools backed by WP Engine.

Empower your content managers and developers to deliver consistent brand experiences while improving change management processes.

Start building faster with easily configured tools in an integrated tech stack powered by a single, high-performance platform.

Learn headless WordPress quickly with a suite of features specifically built to bridge headless and WordPress technology.

Take the guesswork out of troubleshooting with one place to get dedicated support from headless WordPress experts.

Achieve higher conversions and unbelievable performance with auto-healing, smart scaling frontend and backend hosting.

Get peace-of-mind thanks to enterprise-grade security by decoupling the frontend on an edge network from our highly-resilient backend.

Delight your internal stakeholders with one price, from one vendor, and one place to get expert headless support for WordPress.

Reduce time and money spent integrating multiple vendors with one end-to-end platform for building creative client experiences.

Ensure cost-savings, flexibility, and MarTech integrations with open-source development tools backed by WP Engine.

Empower your content managers and developers to deliver consistent brand experiences while improving change management processes.

Start building faster with easily configured tools in an integrated tech stack powered by a single, high-performance platform.

Learn headless WordPress quickly with a suite of features specifically built to bridge headless and WordPress technology.

Take the guesswork out of troubleshooting with one place to get dedicated support from headless WordPress experts.

Achieve higher conversions and unbelievable performance with auto-healing, smart scaling frontend and backend hosting.

Get peace-of-mind thanks to enterprise-grade security by decoupling the frontend on an edge network from our highly-resilient backend.

Delight your internal stakeholders with one price, from one vendor, and one place to get expert headless support for WordPress.

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Lighthouse performance score from the top 25% of all headless sites for WordPress

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faster site speeds with headless compared to traditional WordPress sites

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of enterprises are evaluating headless solutions

Headless Platform features

A complete headless tech stack

One, holistic solution

Reduces your time spent integrating multiple vendors in your tech stack, saves you and your clients money, and allows you to spend more time innovating.

Node.js frontend

Unlock new opportunities for WordPress and higher-budget projects. Build with your choice of modern front-end Javascript framework.

High-performance hosting

Achieve up to 10x performance with global CDN, the fastest WordPress TTFB scores, and smart scaling and auto-healing Node frontend hosting.

WordPress CMS

Reduce your clients’ learning curve, give your dev team more flexibility, and save on sunk costs compared to other enterprise CMSs.

Headless Platform blueprints

Jump-start your projects with pre-configured environments, templates, and demo content to quickly learn headless WordPress.

WPGraphQL

Optionally enable a GraphQL API on WordPress to render pages and content on your frontend and query your data with enhanced clarity.

Content modeling

Model your data structure and editing experience in WordPress while empowering both content creators and developers.

Faust.js framework

An optional, super fast, Next.js-based framework for bringing common WordPress features like previews and page template hierarchy to your headless project.

WP Engine Smart Search

Deliver a smarter, easier, and faster way to enable headless WordPress search with minimal configuration and an intuitive UI.

Getting started

Explore and learn headless

1
Create a free WP Engine Headless sandbox account
We offer free development environments packed with resources for learning headless WordPress.
2
Start from a blueprint or import a template
Use pre-configured projects with demo content from common setups like Portfolios and eCommerce.
3
Join a community of headless builders
Learn from experts through resources, Discord discussions, podcasts, video tutorials and more.

Try Now for Free Headless Platform How-to Guide

Headless resources

Insights to inspire

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Achieving Better Core Web Vitals with Headless WordPress

Headless web architecture offers a clear path for achieving peak Core Web Vitals and delivering seamless, omnichannel experiences today’s consumers demand.

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WP Engine Developer Resources

Free Headless Platform Developer Resources

A repository full of resources in all the formats you love, designed to teach you headless WordPress development from the ground up.

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The State of Headless: A Global Research Report

When you need help, our WordPress experts are available. From pre-launch to go-live and beyond, we’ve got your back.

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The Rise of Multi-CMS in the Enterprise

When you need help, our WordPress experts are available. From pre-launch to go-live and beyond, we’ve got your back.

What our customers say

Our impact

Testimonials
Case Studies

“With the growing need for headless with a lot of our clients, we fully trust WP Engine and the Headless Platform! We loved to see where WP Engine is actually taking the WordPress community off to the future.”

David DiCamilloCTO, Code and Theory

“We’ve been delighted to work with WP Engine and the Headless Platform as we’ve embraced WordPress and embraced headless technologies on top of WordPress. It’s great to see a well-thought-out enterprise-grade managed experience that helps us get WordPress, helps us get a decoupled frontend, all online in the same place.”

VP of Marketing and Growth, 10Up, WP Engine customer

Phil CrummVP of Marketing and Growth, 10Up

“We’ve been a partner of WP Engine for many years and one reason that we continue that partnership is the support, both for us and for our clients. And now with Headless Platform, they’ve listened to us, to our needs, to what we need in that product, and they’ve made it as simple as possible for us to manage a decoupled solution without worrying about hosting for all the different pieces.”

Director of Technical Production, Click Here Labs, WP Engine Headless customer

Jonathan JeterDirector of Technical Production, Click Here Labs

“We’re in an age where content has to reach everyone, everywhere and so many things are becoming more omnichannel. And headless, and Headless Platform specifically, are a brilliant solution to help our clients achieve those goals.”

Chief Technology Officer, Kanopi Studios, WP Engine Headless customer

Kat WhiteChief Technology Officer, Kanopi Studios

“Headless Platform delivers everything we need to radically improve performance without disrupting our content management workflows.”

Head of Product, Android Authority, WP Engine Headless Customer

Tayo OnabuleHead of Product, Android Authority

Headless Platform

FAQ

While WP Engine Headless Platform does have backend WordPress CMS hosting, it is the complete headless platform that supports your entire headless tech stack. WP Engine Headless Platform includes WordPress hosting, Node frontend hosting, and a suite of tools for building decoupled projects—all at one price from a single vendor.

We offer a comprehensive, end-to-end solution in order to provide performance optimization at every layer, enterprise-grade security, and pre-configured tools that integrate together seamlessly.

Headless is a great option for sites requiring incredible performance, more interactive web experiences, resource-heavy sites like media, enterprises looking to consolidate brand/M&A strategies, omnichannel/IoT experiences, or high-traffic campaigns dependent on scalability.

A traditional WordPress site might be good solution for small brochure sites simply needing an online presence or non-technical teams managing a web presence.

Need help deciding if headless is a good fit for your project?

Headless typically offers better performance and security than other web solution or CMS-built sites. By decoupling your CMS and your frontend, you gain nearly endless control from a development standpoint. Frontend developers can get creative with dynamic uses of JavaScript, and deliver an ‘outside the template’ experience. When you go headless, you shed some serious weight. Since your system now consists of just a content database and API calls, your content delivery can be responsive, sleek, and fast.

Decoupled and headless approaches minimize risk to your content. Since your content lives separate from your front-end delivery, it is not as exposed or at risk to third-party application issues. For example, DDoS attacks on an Headless WordPress site are typically blocked by our enterprise-grade WAF before they even hit your frontend. And even if and that’s a big if!) a DDoS attack were to get through the WAF, your frontend is still separate from your backend, adding yet another layer of protection to your site.

Learn more about the benefits of headless here.

Headless may be easier than you think! Whether you’re a WordPress developer learning Javascript or a JavaScript developer learning WordPress, we’ve built a suite of tools to help WordPress and JavaScript developers easily get started, test, and learn headless WordPress. From Faust.js to Blueprints and a free Sandbox account to our expansive resource list, we’re here to help you learn and streamline things like configurations and setups.

Not sure where to start? Check out our headless WordPress developer roadmap.

Because Headless WordPress is a holistic headless solution, including the frontend and WordPress backend, our tech stack is designed to work together to empower publishers with a better experience while still offering developers flexibility with modern frontend JavaScript frameworks. Headless WordPress offers tools like the Faust.js React-Gutenberg Bridge and out-of-the-box preview environments to create better headless experiences for publishers.

Many headless solutions tend to make publisher experiences more difficult as the CMS is disconnected from the frontend, sometimes making previewing content difficult if not impossible. With many other headless solutions and proprietary headless CMSs, the publisher experience can lack many publisher tools WordPress CMS users are familiar with like SEO, layouts, sitemaps, and more. Headless WordPress solves these problems!

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Headless Platform

Plans for any size project or budget.

Plans & Pricing

60 day money-back guarantee: We’re so confident that you’ll love our products and services that we’re offering a 60 day money-back guarantee. If you’re unsatisfied for any reason, you can request a refund anytime within the first 60 days and we’ll refund your plan fees paid. You must request your refund as part of your cancellation notice to qualify for a refund. Please note: All new Startup, Professional, Growth, and Scale plans are included in the 60-day money back guarantee. All other premium and custom plans are not included.

* First year pricing and associated coupons are valid for new customers purchasing Startup, Professional, Growth, and Scale plans only. Cannot be used with other offers and is not valid for upgrades, renewals or any other product purchase. Offer can only be redeemed once upon signup.