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Headless WordPress Migration

wp-admin RetainedLighthouse 95+ISR & Server Components

Headless WordPress with Next.js Frontend

Your Editorial Team Keeps wp-admin — Google Sees a Sub‑Second Site

95+

Lighthouse Score

Performance / Accessibility

43%

Web Runs on WP

Your content stays put

Editorial Disruption

Same wp-admin workflow

<1s

Time to Interactive

ISR + edge caching

What Headless WordPress Actually Decouples — And What Stays Put

Your content team logs into wp-admin exactly as they do now. Your developers pull that content through REST or WPGraphQL and render it with Next.js Server Components, cached at 100+ edge locations. The WordPress database, ACF fields, user roles, plugin ecosystem — all untouched. What dies: the PHP theme layer that keeps your Lighthouse mobile score between 40 and 55, the attack surface of wp-login exposed to the public internet, and the single point of failure where one bad plugin update kills editorial access and visitor experience in the same stroke. Incremental Static Regeneration pre-renders pages on-demand and revalidates them in the background, so your traffic spikes hit a CDN, not your origin server.

프로젝트가 실패하는 이유

Lighthouse mobile scores stuck between 40 and 55, even after you've thrown every caching plugin at it Google penalizes slow pages in search rankings, and every 100ms delay eats into your conversions.

PHP themes are a single point of failure One bad plugin update can take everything down at once — editors and visitors lose access together.

Editors like wp-admin Developers hate writing PHP templates. And hiring decent frontend talent gets harder and more expensive every year.

WordPress exposes your entire application stack to the public internet Brute-force attacks on wp-login, XML-RPC exploits, plugin vulnerabilities — they're all live attack surfaces, right now.

Page builders and shortcodes lock your content inside rendering engines that fight performance That content also becomes non-portable — you can't pipe it to a mobile app or any other channel without a fight.

Server-rendered PHP can't keep up with static or ISR delivery at the edge Traffic spikes strain your server, push up hosting costs, and degrade the experience for everyone hitting your site at the same time.

컴플라이언스

WPGraphQL Integration

We wire up WPGraphQL to expose posts, pages, custom post types, ACF fields, and Yoast metadata as efficient GraphQL queries. No over-fetching, no wasted bandwidth.

Incremental Static Regeneration

Pages get statically generated at build time and revalidated in the background on a configurable interval. Visitors always hit a cached edge response while the content stays current behind the scenes.

Draft Preview for Editors

Next.js Draft Mode intercepts preview clicks from wp-admin and renders unpublished content through the production frontend. Editors see exactly what visitors will see — no surprises, no "it looked different in preview."

SEO Metadata Pipeline

Yoast and Rank Math data flows through the API into Next.js generateMetadata. Titles, descriptions, Open Graph tags, canonical URLs, JSON-LD structured data — all handled automatically.

Attack Surface Reduction

Your WordPress instance sits behind a firewall with no public theme rendering. Only the API endpoint is exposed, which cuts out most of the common WordPress exploit vectors.

On-Publish Revalidation

A lightweight webhook fires the moment an editor hits Publish. That triggers on-demand ISR, so updated content goes live in seconds — no full rebuild required.

우리가 만드는 것

Escape Lighthouse mobile scores trapped between 40 and 55 despite every caching plugin you've installed

Ship Lighthouse 95+ on mobile with Server Components that eliminate client-side JavaScript overhead and trim Time to Interactive

Eliminate the single point of failure where one plugin update crashes both your editorial interface and your public site

Serve static and ISR pages from 100+ edge nodes so your site stays live even if the WordPress origin goes down entirely

Stop forcing frontend developers to write PHP templates when React talent is cheaper and easier to hire

Map ACF Pro custom fields and repeater blocks to typed TypeScript interfaces for predictable, compile-time-safe rendering

Close the attack surface of wp-login, XML-RPC, and plugin vulnerabilities exposed to the public internet

Run WordPress media library images through automatic WebP/AVIF conversion, lazy loading, and responsive srcsets via Next.js Image

Break free from page builders and shortcodes that lock your content inside non-portable rendering engines

Generate dynamic XML sitemaps and RSS feeds at build time from your content graph and auto-submit them to Search Console

End the cycle where traffic spikes strain your server, inflate hosting costs, and slow the site for everyone

Expose WPML or Polylang locale data via the API and route it through Next.js i18n with intact hreflang tags for every language

우리의 프로세스

WordPress Audit & API Setup

We start with an audit of your existing WordPress instance — plugins, custom post types, ACF fields, SEO configuration. We install WPGraphQL, expose all content types, and lock down the public-facing PHP layer.

Week 1

Next.js Frontend Build

Then we scaffold the Next.js app with App Router, map every WordPress template to a React component, and configure ISR with tuned revalidation intervals. Draft Mode preview gets wired up for your editors at this stage.

Weeks 2–3

SEO & Performance Tuning

Yoast and Rank Math metadata gets piped into generateMetadata. We optimize images, implement structured data, configure sitemap generation, and keep iterating until every Lighthouse category is clearing 95.

Week 4

Editor Training & QA

Your content team then tests the full editorial workflow end to end — draft, preview, publish, revalidate. We work through every edge case: custom fields, scheduled posts, revision history, multi-author workflows.

Week 5

Deploy & Monitor

Finally, we deploy to Vercel with production caching, configure on-publish webhooks, set up uptime monitoring for both the WordPress API and the Next.js frontend, and stay on for 30 days of post-launch support.

Week 6

Next.jsWordPressWPGraphQLVercelACF ProYoast SEO APIReact Server Components

자주 묻는 질문

편집자들이 새로운 CMS를 배워야 하나요?

아니요. wp-admin 경험은 동일합니다 — 같은 대시보드, 같은 에디터, 같은 플러그인 인터페이스. 유일한 눈에 띄는 변화는 미리보기 클릭이 PHP 테마를 로드하는 대신 Draft Mode를 통해 Next.js 프론트엔드로 라우팅된다는 것입니다. 대부분의 편집자들은 미리보기가 더 빠르게 로드된다는 점 외에는 변화를 눈치채지 못합니다.

기존 WordPress 플러그인은 여전히 작동하나요?

ACF, Yoast, Gravity Forms, WooCommerce 같은 백엔드 플러그인들은 정상적으로 작동합니다. PHP 훅을 통해 HTML을 주입하는 플러그인 — 예를 들어 비주얼 페이지 빌더 — 은 React 컴포넌트로 교체해야 합니다. 저희는 발견 단계에서 모든 플러그인을 감사하고 코드를 건드리기 전에 마이그레이션이 필요한 것들을 표시합니다.

Headless WordPress는 PHP 테마 없이 SEO를 어떻게 처리하나요?

Yoast와 Rank Math 모두 REST API와 WPGraphQL을 통해 모든 SEO 메타데이터를 노출합니다. 저희는 제목, 메타 설명, Open Graph 태그, canonical URL, 스키마 마크업을 Next.js generateMetadata로 끌어옵니다. 출력은 이전과 일치합니다 — 보통 더 낫습니다 — 그리고 페이지 로드가 훨씬 빨라져 순위에도 직접적으로 도움이 됩니다.

현실적으로 기대할 수 있는 Lighthouse 점수는 얼마인가요?

저희는 모바일과 데스크톱 모두에서 Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO에서 95+ 달성을 목표로 합니다. 일반적인 WordPress는 모바일에서 40–55점을 받습니다. 정적 생성, ISR, edge 캐싱, 최적화된 이미지 제공이 프로덕션에서 이 수치를 일관되게 95 이상으로 올립니다.

WordPress 서버가 다운되면 내 사이트는 어떻게 되나요?

방문자들이 눈치챌 변화는 없습니다. Next.js는 edge 캐시에서 사전 렌더링된 페이지를 제공하므로 WordPress 장애 중에도 프론트엔드는 완벽하게 작동합니다. 편집자들은 백엔드가 복구될 때까지 새 콘텐츠를 발행할 수 없지만, 방문자들은 무중단을 경험합니다. 이는 일체형 WordPress에 비해 실제 복원력 이점입니다.

Headless WordPress 마이그레이션에는 얼마나 걸리나요?

일반적인 사이트 — 200페이지 미만, 표준 커스텀 포스트 타입, ACF 필드 — 은 킥오프부터 프로덕션까지 5–6주가 소요됩니다. WooCommerce, 다국어 지원, 복잡한 커스텀 플러그인 로직이 있는 더 큰 프로젝트는 8–10주가 걸릴 수 있습니다. 저희는 발견 단계에서 모든 것을 정확히 범위 지정하므로 프로젝트 중간에 놀라운 일이 없습니다.

Headless WordPress Migration from $8,000

Fixed-fee. 30-day post-launch support included.

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