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In this post, we will understand about Headless CMS. CMS stands for Content Management System. Going by the name, it manages content and presentation of a website. WordPress is by far the most popular CMS in the market till date.
What is a Monolithic CMS?
WordPress is a monolithic styled CMS. It is also called as WYSIWYG. That means What You See Is What You Get. It provides an admin interface where we write the content and also modify how the content is presented to the end user.
This means that content writing and content presentation are tightly coupled. In big organizations, there is a separate team of developers and a separate team of content writers. In monolithic CMS, these two teams have to work interdependently. This is against the latest modular approach where each set of team is working independently on his/her concerned area.
What is a Headless CMS?
In order to overcome the above limitation of monolithic CMS, Headless CMS came into existence. This is a modular approach based CMS also called as content as a service or content hub.
A headless cms separates the content from code. The content “Body” is separated from the code, how it is presented “Head”. That’s why it is called as headless. No head on the body.
Content is pulled by API and presented to the end user.
