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Top 5 Headless CMS to Build a Blog in 2026

Dumebi Okolo on January 26, 2026

After doing a lot of research as a technical writer, I have found the top 5 CMS for blogging. Whether you are trying to build a personalwriting rep...
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Rohan Sharma

Shall I copy paste the linkedin comment here? 😆

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Dumebi Okolo

😅😅 This bro.
I left a reply on LinkedIn.

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Rohan Sharma

you're the best!

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Daniel T Sasser II

I prefer payloadCMS. It has a very rich interface and I love the way I can customize it and add web hooks.

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Dumebi Okolo

Oh, that's interesting. I haven't heard of them before now. Let me check them out.

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Steffen H. Nielsen

I was actually expecting Umbraco to be a part of this list. Did you consider this?

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Dumebi Okolo

That's very interesting. This is my first time hearing about it! I'd check it out.

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Precious

I'm so sorry about the experience you had with Ghost CMS!
Other than that, this was an insightful read.

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Dumebi Okolo

Thank you!

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hamed pakdaman

Headless CMS is basically WordPress minus the therapy sessions — you stop fighting the theme system and just get an API back. I migrated to unfoldcms (unfoldcms.com) on a Hetzner VPS a while back and wired it into my own frontend; the API mode is clean and the built-in SEO tooling saved me from writing that myself. The one thing I'll flag: if you hit an edge case, the docs leave you reading source code. Worth it though.