It's clear to me now that WordPress is moving away from the every-day webmaster. The person who is looking for the tools to set up a website on their own with their own know-how or rather within their own means. I get that nothing can nor should stay still but what's the real point of a "headless" WordPress? Is it going to help my server load in traffic spikes? Is it going to make my website load faster for my readers? Probably not. In fact, it's just another step in the already convoluted, and perhaps bloated, "stack".
If it goes any further, those of us who spend money in the community (be it themes, plugins, dev) may end up needing to switch to something like Wix.
I don't think WordPress is moving away from the every-day webmaster. On the contrary, they are implementing things like Gutenberg that will open up a whole new world of possibilities of non-technical folks to do really cool things all by themselves with their websites.
I think you're misinformed on the benefits of headless WordPress. There are real business cases for this — namely, it lets those of us who have use cases for modern stacks (instead of the good 'ol LAMP stack) benefit from all the content management goodness that WordPress has baked in. WordPress is an amazing CMS platform, and many companies have both amazing engineering teams and non-technical marketers — headless WordPress is the best place where these teams can converge and utilize their respective strengths. It allows the marketers to have one central, familiar CMS to manage content. It allows the engineers to create any clients they need, with any stack they need.
WordPress is not the right tool for every job, in terms of full-stack WordPress. In many cases, it may make more sense to use full-stack JavaScript, or Ruby on Rails, or . But WordPress is a great tool for most CMS needs, and going headless allows for that.
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It's clear to me now that WordPress is moving away from the every-day webmaster. The person who is looking for the tools to set up a website on their own with their own know-how or rather within their own means. I get that nothing can nor should stay still but what's the real point of a "headless" WordPress? Is it going to help my server load in traffic spikes? Is it going to make my website load faster for my readers? Probably not. In fact, it's just another step in the already convoluted, and perhaps bloated, "stack".
If it goes any further, those of us who spend money in the community (be it themes, plugins, dev) may end up needing to switch to something like Wix.
I don't think WordPress is moving away from the every-day webmaster. On the contrary, they are implementing things like Gutenberg that will open up a whole new world of possibilities of non-technical folks to do really cool things all by themselves with their websites.
I think you're misinformed on the benefits of headless WordPress. There are real business cases for this — namely, it lets those of us who have use cases for modern stacks (instead of the good 'ol LAMP stack) benefit from all the content management goodness that WordPress has baked in. WordPress is an amazing CMS platform, and many companies have both amazing engineering teams and non-technical marketers — headless WordPress is the best place where these teams can converge and utilize their respective strengths. It allows the marketers to have one central, familiar CMS to manage content. It allows the engineers to create any clients they need, with any stack they need.
WordPress is not the right tool for every job, in terms of full-stack WordPress. In many cases, it may make more sense to use full-stack JavaScript, or Ruby on Rails, or . But WordPress is a great tool for most CMS needs, and going headless allows for that.
J