Why Headless WordPress is the Future of Digital Experiences - Jason Cohen
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This document discusses the benefits of headless WordPress and how it is the future of digital experiences. It notes that 64% of enterprises currently use headless architectures and developers prefer headless for modern tools, future-proofing, and increased performance and security. Marketers also benefit from headless for improved site speed, personalization, and multi-channel publishing. The document introduces Atlas as a headless WordPress platform that provides dynamic experiences, absurd speed, and publisher autonomy through features like the Node engine, framework optionality, and static and dynamic architectures.
Why Headless WordPress is the Future of Digital Experiences - Jason Cohen
- 2. Why Headless WordPress is the Future of Digital Experiences Founder and CTO WP Engine @asmartbear Jason Cohen
- 3. 3 The Headless Future is Now. 64% of enterprises are currently using headless
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- 6. 6 Developers are leading the Headless charge for modern tools, CMS future-proofing, increased performance and security. Freedom to work with any modern framework Enhanced security and reliability Speeds up to 10x faster than traditional WordPress Ability to redesign without reimplementing
- 7. SOURCE: StackOverflow 2020 survey According to a 2020 StackOverflow survey of 65,000 developers, #2 is Typescript. (JavaScript with extensions)
- 8. 8 Marketers are moving to headless for site speed, enhanced personalization and simplified publishing across channels & devices. Personalized, interactive applications Dramatic performance gains Omni-channel experiences
- 10. 10 +25% Click-through rate increase +$3m Additional revenue After
- 12. 12 Introducing Atlas. Dynamic Experiences Absurd Speed Publisher Autonomy The complete Headless WordPress platform for absurdly fast dynamic sites.
- 13. The Paradox of Choice
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- 15. 15 Headless WordPress CMS Atlas Node Engine Modern Framework Optionality Atlas. The complete headless stack.
- 16. 16 • Developer choice of JavaScript framework — React, Angular, Vue.js or any other • Multiple server-side environments • Auto-deployments from GitHub branches • CLI Tools • Robust API • Both static and dynamic headless architectures • 100% scriptable command-line Modern headless architecture and framework optionality.
- 20. 20 Static architecture — the fastest. (“Jamstack,” e.g. Gatsby, Strattic)
- 21. 21 SSR architecture — the most capable. (Server-Side Rendering)
- 22. 22 • Global managed Node.JS hosting drives extraordinary speed, up to 10X faster than traditional WordPress • Powerful static CDN • Proprietary acceleration technology • Auto-scaling and auto-healing infrastructure Dynamic at the speed of static with Atlas Node Engine.
- 23. 23 WP Engine is the fastest platform on WordPress. SOURCE: CRuX Report (1/1/20 - 6/1/20)
- 24. 24 Atlas — SSR + WordPress as fast as static. WP Engine Vercel Fast (<200ms) Average (>200ms + <1s ) Slow (>1s ) 31% 46% 23% 20% 49% 31% Netlify 17% 53% 30% SOURCE: CRuX Report (Aug 2020)
- 26. 26 WordPress empowers the publisher. Core CMS Plugins Themes Community
- 27. 27 WordPress in a headless world. Core CMS Plugins Themes Community Themes
- 28. 28 Our mission is to make WordPress the #1 headless CMS in the world. 1. Fix what breaks when WordPress loses its head 2. Bring the #1 CMS publishing prowess to Headless
- 29. 29 Grab the open-source: developers.wpengine.com
- 30. 30 Our mission is to make WordPress the #1 headless CMS in the world. 1. Fix what breaks when WordPress loses its head 2. Bring the #1 CMS publishing prowess to Headless
- 31. Our mission is to make WordPress the #1 headless CMS in the world. Jason Bahl, Creator of WPGraphQL and Principal Engineer, WP Engine https://wds.ai/Next-js-Starter
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- 33. 33 INDUSTRY PANEL: Navigating The Risks To Reap The Rewards of Headless WordPress Phil Crumm, 10UP, Jason Bahl, WPGraphQL, Matt Landers, WP Engine, Annan Patel, WP Engine 1:10 PM - 1:45 PM CST HEADLESS DEMO: Getting Started with Headless (Without Losing Your Mind) Matt Landers, Head of Dev Rel at WP Engine 1:50 PM - 2:25 PM CST Thank you. Request a free dev account and take Atlas for a spin https://wpengine.com/atlas The complete Headless WordPress platform for absurdly fast dynamic sites. .