Headless WordPress with Astro: The Best of Both
How to combine WordPress as a CMS with Astro as a frontend for unmatched performance.
Headless WordPress gives content editors the familiar WordPress dashboard while delivering the performance of a modern frontend like Astro.
Why Headless
Traditional WordPress themes load slowly due to PHP rendering and plugin overhead. By decoupling the frontend, you get full control over performance and design.
The Architecture
WordPress serves as a headless CMS via its REST API or WPGraphQL. Astro fetches content at build time and renders static HTML pages.
Content Modeling
Use Advanced Custom Fields to structure your content. This gives editors a clean interface while providing typed data for your Astro components.
Deployment
Deploy WordPress on a managed host and Astro on an edge network. The result is a CMS-driven site with sub-second page loads.