Alternatives to WP Headless
A lightweight plugin to disable the WP frontend experience.
Snapshot
Rating: 5.0/5 (2 reviews)
Downloads: 8,006
Active installs: 300
Maintenance score: 22/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 4.6
Tested up to: 5.1.22
Requires PHP: 5.2.4
Top alternatives
These alternatives are selected programmatically using overlapping tags and then sorted by your chosen metric.
Showing 20 plugins
Active installs
Descending
WPGraphQL(48)•Updated 34d ago
WPGraphQL adds a flexible and powerful GraphQL API to WordPress, enabling efficient querying and interaction with your site's data.
30,000 installs1,432,015 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
WPGraphQL for ACF(1)•Updated 38d ago
WPGraphQL for ACF seamlessly integrates Advanced Custom Fields with WPGraphQL.
10,000 installs97,767 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Headless Mode(6)•Updated 669d ago
Once you take the head off of WordPress, nobody needs to see it. This plugin hides the front end by redirecting to the shiny static (etc) site.
2,000 installs33,399 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
CoCart – Headless REST API for WooCommerce(21)•Updated 111d ago
A developer-first REST API to decouple WooCommerce on the frontend to help build modern and scalable storefronts. Fast, secure, customizable, easy.
1,000 installs95,180 downloads54/100 • Maintained
Faust.js(7)•Updated 440d ago
Faust.js™ transforms your traditional WordPress installation into a flexible headless CMS.
1,000 installs64,903 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
1,000 installs23,634 downloads59/100 • Actively maintained
BabyLoveGrowth Integration(0)•Updated 32d ago
Secure REST endpoint to publish posts from BabyLoveGrowth.ai backend via API key.
1,000 installs4,232 downloads59/100 • Actively maintained
400 installs10,107 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
CoCart CORS Support(0)•Updated 660d ago
Enables support for CORS to allow CoCart to work across multiple domains.
400 installs7,645 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
200 installs10,169 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
200 installs9,242 downloads59/100 • Actively maintained
Publish to Netlify(0)•Updated 1995d ago
Easily deploy static sites to Netlify using WordPress as backend. This plugin builds your static website using Netlify webhooks to trigger the deploy …
100 installs3,148 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP Headless CMS Framework(2)•Updated 2232d ago
Plugin provides a framework sets up WordPress as a headless CMS.
70 installs3,755 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Gato GraphQL(36)•Updated 55d ago
Powerful and flexible GraphQL server for WordPress. Access any piece of data (posts, users, comments, tags, etc) from your app via a GraphQL API.
70 installs9,472 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
ContentGecko Connector(1)•Updated 69d ago
ContentGecko Connector syncs ContentGecko posts, products, and translations with WordPress securely.
60 installs953 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
LLM Markdown – Expose Content as .md(2)•Updated 80d ago
Expose WordPress posts and pages as real .md URLs with YAML front matter for LLMs, AI ingestion, and headless workflows.
40 installs283 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Redirect Front-end to Login | Headless WP(0)•Updated 3156d ago
Redirects all front-end pages to the login page, best for building a headless WP REST API backend
40 installs10,147 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Headless Pages(0)•Updated 1976d ago
Disable the default Wordpress page editor when using custom fields.
0 installs7,425 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Nonfig(0)•Updated 1993d ago
Manage Configuration Changes from a single platform. Nonfig is a Software Configuration Hub and you store Your Software Changes in a Centralize Hub.
0 installs264 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Static Cache Wrangler – Headless Assistant(0)•Updated 116d ago
Convert Static Cache Wrangler HTML output to headless CMS import formats with pluggable architecture.
0 installs144 downloads50/100 • Maintained