Familiar editing. A separate frontend.
Keep WordPress for content editing while giving your website a separate Astro frontend. We plan the content model, editor previews, publishing workflow, and search controls, and assess whether headless justifies the additional operating cost.
A headless content management system (CMS) separates content editing from the website visitors see.
Our 4As advertising background helps us plan for campaign pages, brand consistency, and approval cycles. We connect those needs to the content model and frontend, so routine publishing has a defined workflow.
Choose the right architecture
You need a separate frontend, shared content across websites or apps, or independent frontend releases. The additional systems must solve a clear business need.
Your team needs familiar page editing and plugin features on one website. A well-built WordPress site may meet the brief with fewer moving parts.
Headless is an architecture choice, not an automatic speed or SEO upgrade. If a conventional build fits, explore WordPress website development.
What we build
Content types, reusable fields, relationships, and language requirements shaped around what your team publishes.
Retain WordPress for editing and deliver content to a separate frontend through an application programming interface (API).
Responsive templates and reusable components, with static or server-rendered delivery chosen around how often content changes.
Draft previews, publishing triggers, and failure notifications defined before launch. Editors need to see what they are approving.
Rendered content, metadata, canonical URLs, sitemaps, redirects, and structured data implemented in the frontend.
Forms, search, analytics, and business integrations scoped explicitly. A WordPress plugin’s visible features may need a separate implementation.
We assess other CMS requirements during discovery. Platform selection follows your publishing needs, integration constraints, and operating budget.
Operating the website
Agree when an edit becomes public, how scheduled content is released, and who responds if a build or content request fails.
Review CMS permissions, API exposure, preview access, and secret storage. Separating the frontend does not remove CMS maintenance.
Define responsibility for the CMS, frontend, hosting, dependencies, backups, monitoring, and rollback. Both parts need an owner.
Delivery
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Review your site, editor tasks, integrations, and constraints. Compare headless with a conventional build.
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Prototype a real content type, draft preview, and publish cycle before expanding the build.
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Test templates, integrations, accessibility, content freshness, and search controls on staging.
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Run an agreed cutover and provide source code, access, operating instructions, and acceptance records.
Moving an existing site also needs a content inventory and URL plan. See website migration SEO protection for search continuity work.
Budget and scope
Content models, templates, previews, integrations, languages, migration, and approval requirements determine the project scope.
Allow for CMS hosting or subscriptions, frontend hosting, build usage, monitoring, updates, and support. These costs should be visible before approval.
We quote after reviewing the requirements and agree the delivery schedule before work starts. Copywriting, translation, licences, content entry, and ongoing support are included only where specified.
Common questions
Yes. WordPress can supply content to a separate frontend through its API. We first check content structure, plugins, preview needs, and publishing requirements.
Yes, within the content fields and reusable components agreed for the build. A new layout or feature may still need development. We test editor tasks during acceptance.
It can support a strong search foundation, but the architecture alone does not improve rankings. The frontend must deliver crawlable content, correct metadata, links, redirects, and status codes.
Some can continue handling CMS tasks. Features that render on the public website, such as forms, search, or checkout, need individual review and may require replacement or integration.
Yes, subject to a review of the current platform and content. We map content and URLs, test the publishing workflow, and agree a migration and rollback plan before launch.
Responsibility is agreed in the proposal. Your internal team, Ulement, or named providers can own defined areas. CMS updates and frontend maintenance are separate tasks, and ongoing support needs an agreed scope.
Start with the requirements
Share your current website, publishing needs, connected systems, and intended launch. We will assess whether headless fits and recommend the next step.