Headless CMS vs traditional CMS
John Lins
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Do you use a headless CMS to manage your company's content? If so, why did you decide to use a headless CMS?
(And which Headless CMS?)
Do you think you are missing out on all the plugins that are available on traditional platforms such as WordPress?
I'd love to hear what the PH community uses!
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Michael Cho@michael_cho1
For my personal blog I use Contentful (headless). I sync in the content to a nuxtjs app - I like having the optimization control of building an app paired with the easy content creation / image upload of headless.
For traditional CMS after a certain point it's always been annoying dealing with incompatible plugins and bloat.
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Hi John, We use our own Headless CMS (www.contento.io) for our site. You make a really great point in relation to comparisons with a dominant traditional (monolithic) solution WordPress. The switching costs from traditional to headless are not insignificant but they also stretch beyond the technical move into bigger questions as to how the website is managed and what functionality is needed. At the heart of your question is the inherent tension between the primary buyer / decision maker (in terms of moving to headless) which is often the dev lead and the primary user (often in marketing). regards Alan