Headless CMS Articles
Headless CMS platforms, migrations, and architecture comparisons
16 articles
What Is a Headless CMS? The Complete Explainer
What a headless CMS is, how it differs from WordPress-style platforms, when it is the right choice, and how structured content connects to SEO and AI search.
Headless CMS and SEO: What Actually Changes
Going headless moves SEO from plugins into the frontend you build — the control you gain, the obligations you inherit, and the failure modes to avoid.
Structured Content for AI Search: Why Entity Modeling Matters
AI engines retrieve entities and relationships, not pages. How typed content maps onto schema.org and earns citations in AI-generated answers.
What Headless CMS Management Actually Involves
Schema evolution, editorial operations, upgrades, and governance — the post-launch discipline that keeps structured content structured.
GROQ for SQL Developers: A Practical Translation Guide
Filters, projections, joins, and ordering translated from SQL into Sanity's GROQ query language, with side-by-side examples.
Headless CMS Costs: Platform Fees vs Build Investment
The three cost layers of going headless — and why the platform subscription is usually the smallest of them.
WordPress to Sanity Migration: The Complete Process
Content inventory, schema design, scripted transforms, URL parity, and cutover — how a WordPress to Sanity migration actually works, including when not to migrate.
WordPress to Strapi Migration: A Practical Guide
Exporting WordPress into Strapi content types on your own database: the five-phase process, ops trade-offs of self-hosting, and the failure modes to avoid.
Contentful to Sanity Migration: When and How
Headless-to-headless is the lowest-risk migration type — content types become schemas, rich text becomes Portable Text, and the frontend often only needs a new data layer.
Putting Directus on Top of an Existing SQL Database
Directus introspects the schema you already have and layers APIs plus an editing app over it — no migration required. How to do it without endangering your data.
Squarespace (or Wix) to Framer: Migrating a Marketing Site
Template-builder to design-builder moves are rebuilds, not imports. URL mapping, CMS collections, metadata parity, and an honest look at when to stay put.
Sanity vs Strapi: How to Actually Choose
An honest architecture-level comparison of Sanity and Strapi: content modeling, hosting, ownership, pricing models, and SEO implications — from a team that builds on both.
Sanity vs Contentful: Customization vs Convention
Two hosted headless CMSs compared: Sanity's code-defined schemas and customizable Studio against Contentful's established, convention-driven platform.
Strapi vs Directus: Who Owns the Schema?
Both are self-hostable headless CMSs over SQL — but Strapi generates its schema while Directus wraps the database you already have. How to pick.
Craft CMS vs WordPress: Bespoke Control vs Ecosystem Scale
A fair comparison of Craft CMS and WordPress: native content modeling against the largest plugin ecosystem on the web, with honest total-cost math.
Framer vs Webflow: Design Speed vs Site-Builder Depth
Design-first Framer against visual-development Webflow: CMS collections, SEO capability, e-commerce, portability, and when neither is the right tool.