Headless CMS
With headless architecture, the possibilities of CMS integrations are endless. Select any CMS you prefer to integrate through API.
If the content management happens to be more complicated, any of the following CMS solutions can be integrated to the template. Note that agencies provide such integrations, not TheShop.
Strapi is an open-source, Node. js based, Headless CMS that saves developers a lot of development time while giving them the freedom to use their favorite tools and frameworks. Strapi also enables content editors to streamline content delivery (text, images, video, etc) across any devices.
Ghost is a powerful app for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
Directus is an open-source suite of software that provides an instant API wrapper for SQL databases and an intuitive Admin App for non-technical users to manage that content.
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in hypertext preprocessor language and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database with supported HTTPS. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to within WordPress as "Themes".
Payload CMS is a solution to content authoring for your JavaScript application. Running completely headless and self-hosted means you own all your data and distribute content wherever you need through automatically available GraphQL and REST API.
Tina is a free open-source CMS editor, that uses GitHub to store your content. It comes with an amazing WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor as a visual aid to create rich, responsive, colorful pages.
The superpowered CMS for developers.
Keystone helps you build faster and scale further than any other CMS or App Framework. Just describe your schema, and get a powerful GraphQL API & beautiful Management UI for content and data.
No boilerplate or bootstrapping – just elegant APIs to help you ship the code that matters without sacrificing the flexibility or power of a bespoke back-end.
Webiny is a developer-friendly serverless CMS powered by Node and React with a headless GraphQL API. Webiny features several ready-made apps like Page Builder, Headless CMS, Form Builder and File Manager.
Ponzu is a powerful and efficient open-source HTTP server framework and CMS. It provides automatic, free, and secure HTTP/2 over TLS (certificates obtained via Let's Encrypt), a useful CMS and scaffolding to generate content editors, and a fast HTTP API on which to build modern applications.
Cockpit is a headless CMS with an API-first approach that puts content first. It is designed to simplify the process of publication by separating content management from content consumption on the client side.
Publii is different from static-site generators which can be cumbersome and challenging to utilize. Instead, it offers an intuitive user interface similar to server-based content management systems like WordPress or Joomla!. With Publii, users can effortlessly generate posts and other content for their website, and customize its appearance using a diverse range of built-in themes and features.
Prose offers a visually stunning and straightforward content creation environment for websites that don't use a content management system (CMS). It is a web-based platform designed to manage content on GitHub, allowing users to create, modify, and remove files while saving any updates directly to GitHub. You can host your website for free on GitHub Pages or establish your own GitHub webhook server.
The drag & drop headless CMS. Plug & Play. Integrates with your existing sites & apps. API-based infrastructure that is native to your tech stack ; Drag & Drop.
Apostrophe is a powerful website builder platform built on an enterprise open source CMS. Apostrophe offers in-context live editing and dynamic visual design tools with multisite enablement. At its core is an extensible and modular system in a full stack JS environment ready for traditional or headless deployment. At last, a balance between the developer and editor experience, where side projects thrive and businesses boom.
Sanity is an open-source headless CMS written in JavaScript and designed with developers in mind. Present content from a unified platform in endless presentations with easy to use APIs and a hosted, headache-free back end.
Umbraco Heartcore is a headless Software As A Service (SAAS) offered by Umbraco. The service enables you to create and manage content and media in the Umbraco backoffice and make it available to any platforms, devices, channels etc.
Storyblok CMS is a headless content management system that allows you to manage content across multiple channels. It is a flexible platform that allows developers to build custom websites and applications while giving content creators the ability to create, edit, and manage content in a user-friendly interface.
Craft is a content management system founded in 2013 by Pixel & Tonic. Users can manage the creation and modification of their digital content via this software application. As a blank slate, Craft puts content in the foreground. It is a preferred CMS by many developers and content authors.
A Jekyll plugin that provides users with a traditional CMS-style graphical interface to author content and administer Jekyll sites. The project is divided into two parts. A Ruby-based HTTP API that handles Jekyll and filesystem operations, and a Javascript-based front end, built on that API.
Statamic is a versatile platform that evolves with you and your website, catering to your requirements. It operates as a front-to-back content management system until you require a headless solution, and it doesn't use a database until it becomes necessary. It is powered by PHP and Laravel and dynamically adjusts until you choose to go with a static setup.
Plasmic is a web-based tool and headless content management solution (CMS) for building visual web content. Plasmic is made for non-developers to easily construct new content and visual designs, while developers can integrate these into any code base.
Plasmic empowers non-developers, such as marketers and designers, to create new webpages, move faster, iterate more, and ship higher quality products, without waiting for developers.
Squidex is a content management hub. A central place to manage all your content. For example: Dynamic elements for your mobile apps. Blog posts and articles for your website.
An administration user interface (UI) designed for the Hexo blog engine, inspired by the Ghost interface, with influences drawn from svbtle and prose.io.
Daptin functions as a headless CMS server that serves data from MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite databases via JSONAPI.org and GraphQL. With Daptin, you can design your data model and create a production-ready JSON API in just a few minutes. Daptin falls under the Self-Hosted Blogging/CMS category of a technology stack.
Plenti is an open source Build-Time Render (BTR) Engine. The templates are based on Svelte, which is a JavaScript library for building reactive user interfaces. You might also notice that Plenti runs significantly faster than other JavaScript SSGs. Our goal is to keep the tooling to a minimum so it's easy to install and use.
dotCMS is an open source content management system (CMS) written in Java for managing content and content driven sites and applications.
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