Headless CMS vs traditional CMS

Hi John, We use our own Headless CMS (www.contento.io) for our site. You make a really great point in relation to comparisons with a dominant traditional (monolithic) solution WordPress. The switching costs from traditional to headless are not insignificant but they also stretch beyond the technical move into bigger questions as to how the website is managed and what functionality is needed. At the heart of your question is the inherent tension between the primary buyer / decision maker (in terms of moving to headless) which is often the dev lead and the primary user (often in marketing). regards Alan

For my personal blog I use Contentful (headless). I sync in the content to a nuxtjs app - I like having the optimization control of building an app paired with the easy content creation / image upload of headless. For traditional CMS after a certain point it's always been annoying dealing with incompatible plugins and bloat.

For my clients at Openthrive, we mostly use Headless CMS, especially Sanity. Only a few are on WordPress. For our own company's content management, we've been using WP, but currently undergoing the transition to Headless. Plugins on WP do provide additional functionality. But we've experienced additional effort to manage those. And with headless we can achieve any functionality we want because it's so flexible, build anything from scratch.