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Headless WordPress VS Payload CMS
Headless WordPress
A headless WordPress site is one that uses WordPress for content management and a different, personalized frontend stack to show material to site visitors.
Headless WordPress can be readily incorporated into many different "stacks" by eliminating the front end. An app's or digital product's stack is essentially its framework.
With Headless WordPress, a marketing team and content team may keep using their familiar WordPress interface, while the development team can continue using their favorite technologies, like React and GraphQL, in a workflow that is known to them with Git.
Payload CMS
Payload is a CMS that is totally focused on providing engineers with the greatest developer experience possible so they can design admin UI and APIs.
For your JavaScript application, Payload CMS is a content authoring tool. For user authentication, file uploads, internationalization, input validation, access control, programmatic hooks, and admin panel, Payload offers a turnkey solution.
Payload is made specifically to save developers time and effort when developing the backend and admin panel for websites, native applications, e-commerce, SaaS, and any other product that needs to handle the content.
Headless WordPress
- Founded in 2010, USA
- They have 4.7 star review
- More complex to set up and manage.
- based on wordpress.org
- Uses the WordPress backend for content management and storage, but the frontend can be built using any technology
- Can be used to build dynamic, interactive web applications
Payload CMS
- Pricing Starting from $29/month
- custom users
- Founded in 2021, Michigan
- They have 4.5 star review
- online customer support
- Deploy on all the paltform
- Under the MIT licence, there are no limitations on use
- Only MongoDB is available as a database
| FrameWork | Headless WordPress | Payload CMS |
|---|---|---|
| CMS-Headless WordPress | Learn more | - |
| CMS Type | API | API |
| Dashboard Internationalization | ||
| Multilanguage Content | ||
| Scheduling & Releases | N/A | requires plugin |
| Content Versioning | ||
| Autosave | ||
| Preview Content | N/A | requires a develope |
| Multiple Environments | ||
| Workflow | N/A | |
| Customizable UI | ||
| User Roles | ||
| Custom User Roles | ||
| Organization Management | N/A | |
| REST API | ||
| GraphQL API | ||
| Images API | ||
| Content Management API | ||
| Field Types | Advanced Custom Fields | |
| Custom Field Types | Advanced Custom Fields | |
| Webhooks | N/A | |
| CLI | ||
| SDK | ||
| Free Plan Available | you need to pay for servers | |
| Team Members | Unlimited | |
| Locales | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Projects | Unlimited depends on the server | N/A |
| Two-factor authentication | N/A | |
| Team Logs | N/A | N/A |
| GDPR | N/A | |
| SOC2 | N/A | |
| ISO27001 | N/A | |
| Extensions | ||
| Built-in Backups & Restore | N/A | |
| Overview | - | Learn more |
CMS
A headless CMS is a content repository that may transmit content via APIs to any front-end or device. All of your content and components are stored in the headless CMS.
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