Headless WordPress Hosting by WP Engine

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You can use any Node.js compatible frontend framework. Faust.js is a an opensource framework sponsored by WP Engine specifically built for headless WordPress. It’s a great resources for learning and easy configuration, but Headless WordPress is also compatible with many of your favorite JavaScript frameworks for headless projects, including Next, React, Gatsby, Angular, Vue, and more.

Yes, WP Engine Headless Platform is our headless WordPress hosting for building fast and dynamic headless sites and applications on WordPress.

WP Engine Headless Platform is one of the latest trends in the WordPress ecosystem and is any site that uses the WordPress API as a data source while displaying it in a decoupled frontend. In this instance, WordPress functions as the backend for content creation and the WordPress API.

Our team of WordPress experts is available 24/7/365 to answer any questions you have. We offer solutions for businesses and projects of all sizes—from your own small brochure site to the most complex application experiences. Get in touch.

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.

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!