Joe Bailey-Roberts

<p>Logged in users are redirected to the editor screen for the post, while non-logged in users must log in first. This means that you can share a readable link straight to the editor, depending on your permalink settings.</p>
<p>Good for task management or organisation resource management.</p>
<h3>What the plugin actually does</h3>
<p>In simple terms, the plugin removes the frontend of the WordPress site. Post permalinks go straight to the editor page, and the theme is mostly redundant.</p>
<h3>Why would I want to do that?</h3>
<p>This is definitely not a useful plugin for a public-facing website. Instead, this allows you to convert WordPress into a headless CMS for managing tasks, content and more, all protected by the standard user role system. You can share a post permalink with a collaborator and they will be directed straight to the editor screen.</p>
<p>Maybe you want to go a step further and create an external application to display your WordPress content elsewhere using the API. In this case you definitely don’t want the standard WP frontend accessible!</p>


WP Headless

A lightweight plugin to disable the WP frontend experience.

Benjamin Intal

gambitph

<p>Using WordPress entirely as a CMS (a <a href="https://medium.com/@jchiatt/headless-wordpress-with-react-d573bca02ee0" rel="nofollow ugc">Headless WordPress</a>) is a plausible option for people building web apps using technologies such as React JS or Angular JS to entirely build their front-end.</p>
<p>Doing this, the front-end (e.g. built with React) becomes decoupled from the back-end (e.g. WordPress). Since WordPress is being used strictly to manage and serve the content via REST API, the WP front-end becomes unusable and unnecessary – hence the term <em>“headless WordPress”</em>.</p>
<p><strong>This plugin essentially removes the front-end of WordPress.</strong></p>
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<p>Note that the REST API, and other non-front-end stuff should work as normal.</p>
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<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>No settings page</li>
<li>Allows backend access</li>
<li>Allows REST API endpoints</li>
<li>Redirects (403 Forbidden) all front-end pages to the login page</li>
</ul>


Redirect Front-end to Login | Headless WP

Redirects all front-end pages to the login page, best for building a headless WP REST API backend

WP Headless vs Redirect Front-end to Login | Headless WP