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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.

專案失敗的原因

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.

合規

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.

我們構建的內容

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

我們的流程

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

常見問題

我的編輯人員需要學習新的 CMS 嗎？

不需要。wp-admin 體驗完全相同——同樣的儀表板、同樣的編輯器、同樣的外掛介面。唯一可見的變化是點擊預覽時會透過 Draft Mode 路由到 Next.js 前端，而不是載入 PHP 主題。大多數編輯人員甚至不會注意到，除了預覽載入速度更快。

我現有的 WordPress 外掛還能正常使用嗎？

後端外掛如 ACF、Yoast、Gravity Forms 和 WooCommerce 繼續正常運作。透過 PHP hook 注入 HTML 的外掛——例如視覺頁面建立器——需要用 React 元件替換。我們在探索階段審計每個外掛，並在接觸任何程式碼之前標記需要遷移的內容。

無 PHP 主題的 Headless WordPress 如何處理 SEO？

Yoast 和 Rank Math 都透過 REST API 和 WPGraphQL 公開所有 SEO 中繼資料。我們將標題、中繼描述、Open Graph 標籤、正規 URL 和結構化標記提取到 Next.js generateMetadata。輸出與您之前的結果相符——通常更好——而且您還能獲得更快的頁面載入速度，這直接有助於排名。

我實際上能期望的 Lighthouse 分數是多少？

我們針對行動和桌面的效能、可訪問性、最佳實踐和 SEO 四個方面都瞄準 95+ 分。整體式 WordPress 通常在行動設備上得分 40–55。靜態生成、ISR、邊緣快取和最佳化圖片傳遞在生產環境中始終將這些分數推向 95 以上。

如果 WordPress 伺服器宕機會怎樣？

訪客不會注意到任何差異。Next.js 從邊緣快取提供預先渲染的頁面，因此即使在 WordPress 宕機期間前端也保持完全運作。編輯人員在後端恢復之前無法發佈新內容，但訪客零停機時間。這比整體式 WordPress 具有真正的彈性優勢。

Headless WordPress 遷移需要多長時間？

典型網站——少於 200 個頁面、標準自訂文章類型、ACF 欄位——需要 5–6 週，從開始到上線。更大的專案，包括 WooCommerce、多語言支援或複雜自訂外掛邏輯，可能耗時 8–10 週。我們在探索階段精確制定範圍，以免在專案進行中出現任何意外。

Headless WordPress Migration from $8,000

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

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