Glossary Terms

Headless CMS

A headless CMS separates where you manage content from where it's shown to visitors, handing the content out as data through an API instead of rendering the pages itself. That lets the same content appear across a website, an app, and other systems, but it adds real complexity, because you now have to build and maintain the front end yourself. It pays off when content genuinely needs to live in several places at once, and it's overkill when it doesn't.