Insights & Guides

Most migrations that go badly went badly before anyone wrote a line of code. The non technical homework to do before you move to a headless setup, from URL mapping to who enters the content.

The biggest objection to going headless is not speed or cost, it is whether your team can update the site without a developer. Here is what actually makes a headless CMS editable.

BigCommerce is one of the few SaaS platforms actually built to go headless, so the real question is rarely how to escape it. It is whether you keep it as the backend or leave it entirely. Here is how I decide.

Once you have decided to go headless, which one do you pick? The questions I actually use to choose a headless CMS, and the feature-grid noise to ignore.

The question I get asked before every migration. Here is the honest answer on what going headless does and does not do to your search rankings.

No jargon and no sales pitch. A developer's plain English explainer of what a headless CMS actually is, with a worked example and an honest take on whether you need one.

Most small sites should stay on WordPress. Here are the honest signs that you have reached the point where it is costing you more than it saves.

Where does a headless site live, who keeps it running, and what do you pay each month? An honest breakdown of the real running costs.

For most small businesses WordPress is the right call, and I will say so. Here is the honest head-to-head, and the narrower set of cases where headless earns its keep.

WooCommerce headless is a different job to Shopify. You already own the data and the server, so the work moves to plugins, the checkout and an API that was never really built for this. The honest version.

The two questions I get in every first conversation. An honest look at what really drives the cost and the timeline of a headless migration, and how to keep both down.

The question I get in almost every first conversation. The honest answer on when a headless CMS is the right call for a small business, and when it is not.