What Is a Headless CMS?

Why Modern Websites Are Moving Beyond Traditional Content Management

If you've heard the term "headless CMS" and wondered what it means, you're not alone. It’s one of the fastest-growing technologies in modern web development — and it’s powering many of the world’s most flexible, performant websites.

🧠 What Does "Headless" Mean?

A traditional CMS (like WordPress or Joomla) combines your content management and how the content is displayed (the "frontend"). Everything is tightly coupled — so what you see is what you get.

A headless CMS, on the other hand, decouples the content from the presentation layer. It focuses entirely on storing and delivering content via an API — and leaves the "head" (your website, app, or even smartwatch) up to you.