WordPress to headless
- Price
- from $10,000
- Timeline
- 2–3 months
- Experience
- 100+ projects · 10+ years · 9+ countries
Keep the familiar WordPress admin and move the website to a fast Nuxt front-end
- WordPress
- Nuxt
- GraphQL
- Vercel
Our usual stack. We bring in other tools when the task or the project calls for it.
WordPress is convenient for editors, but heavy themes and plugins make sites slow and fragile. The headless approach keeps the admin, while a separate fast Nuxt application renders the website from an API.
Editors keep working as before, and visitors get a fast website with smooth transitions and animation.
What we do
- An audit of the current website, themes and plugins
- Content structure in WordPress: fields, blocks, post types
- An API on WPGraphQL or REST
- A Nuxt front-end with server-side rendering
- Preserved URLs, SEO and redirects
- Hosting on Vercel or your own server
When WordPress becomes the bottleneck
A theme and dozens of plugins, each loading its own scripts
The front-end moves to Nuxt, so each page ships only the code it needs. Plugins stay where they handle data, not rendering.
A page builder makes the markup heavy and hard to control
We replace the visual builder with a set of blocks backed by ACF or Gutenberg fields. Editors assemble pages from the same sections; the front-end owns the markup.
We want animation and smooth transitions, but the theme won't allow it
With Nuxt we add page transitions without reloads and GSAP animation. The design is no longer limited to what the theme can do.
Content is tangled with shortcodes and inline markup in posts
We write a migration script that breaks old posts into clean fields and blocks. Anything ambiguous goes into a list for editors to review before launch.
The admin preview doesn't match what visitors see
We set up draft previews right on the Nuxt front-end, so editors see the page exactly as it will go live before they hit Publish.
Easy to edit, hard to keep fast
- 45%of WordPress sites pass Core Web Vitals on mobile — among the lowest of major CMSsHTTP Archive, 2025
- 96%of security vulnerabilities found in the WordPress ecosystem in 2024 were in pluginsPatchstack, 2025
Same admin, a different website
A smaller attack surface
The public site no longer depends on dozens of plugins, and the admin itself can be closed off from the outside world.Updates without fear
A WordPress or plugin update no longer breaks the layout: the front-end lives separately and only receives data.Migrate in stages
Start with the home page or the blog and move the rest over gradually, instead of one big switch in a single day.Content for every channel
The same content can feed an app, another website or a newsletter through the API, with no copy-pasting.
Who headless WordPress suits
A good fit if
- Editors love WordPress, but the site is hitting the limits of speed and the theme
- You have lots of content — articles, case studies, job posts — that can't be lost
- You want a site with animation and transitions like product companies have
Not a fit if
- A stock theme with a dozen pages — a speed-up without migrating is simpler
- Your store runs on WooCommerce with many plugins — headless gets costly there; start with a speed-up
Express website audit
We review your site and within 3 business days send a PDF with up to 10 specific growth points, sorted by priority.
- Load speed and the mobile experience
- Structure, copy and the path to a lead
- Technical SEO and search visibility
- Forms, analytics and conversion tracking
For live websites only. No strings attached: you can make the fixes in-house.
How we work
- 01
WordPress audit
1–2 weeksWe review themes, plugins, post types and ACF fields to see what can go through the API and what needs rework.
You get A content map and a keep, replace or drop list for plugins - 02
Architecture and API
1 weekWe set up WPGraphQL or the REST API, draft previews and page rebuilds on publish.
You get A data schema and a working API on a site copy - 03
Nuxt front-end
4–6 weeksWe build server-rendered Nuxt page templates on the current design or a new one.
You get The new front-end on staging, pulling data from your admin - 04
SEO and forms
1–2 weeksWe carry over meta tags, schema markup, the sitemap and forms and redirect every old URL.
You get A redirect map plus verified forms and analytics - 05
Testing and launch
1–2 weeksWe compare pages with the old site, check speed and switch the domain. Bug warranty: 3 months.
You get The Nuxt site live, with the same WordPress admin your team knows
What the migration needs
- Admin access to WordPress and a copy of the database
- A list of plugins with a note on why each one is there
- Access to hosting, the domain and Search Console
- Page templates that must stay as is and ones open to rethinking
- Which editors spend the most time in the admin
Theme and plugin audit
We review the site for free and in 3 working days send up to 10 growth points: what slows it down, which plugins go away in a migration and which stay in the admin.
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WordPress slow,
but editors love it?
We’ll keep the WordPress admin your team knows and render the site with a fast Nuxt front-end, keeping URLs and SEO.
No. The WordPress admin stays; only the way the website is delivered to visitors changes.
From $10,000. The cost depends on the number of page templates, custom post types and fields, and the integrations plugins used to handle: forms, search, multiple languages. We send an estimate after auditing the current site and its plugin list.
Content and SEO plugins keep working. Plugins that changed the site’s front-end are replaced by the new front-end’s features.
Usually several times faster: pages render on the server, get cached and don’t load plugin scripts. We give an exact estimate after the audit.
Usually 2–3 months for a corporate website, depending on the number of templates and integrations: audit and planning, the Nuxt front-end, content migration and a switchover with no downtime.