Headless WordPress Isn’t Enough (Here’s What’s Missing)

When I first moved to headless WordPress, it felt like a huge upgrade. No more theme constraints. No more mixing PHP templates with business logic. A clean separation between frontend and backend. It worked. But after a few projects, I started noticing a new problem. The New Problem Headless WordPress removes one layer of complexity… …but it shifts that complexity somewhere else. Now your frontend is responsible for: fetching data shaping responses handling auth managing consistency across endpo