Best headless plugins for WordPress

WPGraphQL

#928

by Jason Bahl3 days ago

WPGraphQL adds a flexible and powerful GraphQL API to WordPress, enabling efficient querying and interaction with your site's data.

WPGraphQL for ACF

Up in the last 7 days:5#1,828

by Jason Bahl2 days ago

WPGraphQL for ACF seamlessly integrates Advanced Custom Fields with WPGraphQL.

Headless Mode

Down in the last 7 days:7#4,551

by Ben Meredith2 years ago

Once you take the head off of WordPress, nobody needs to see it. This plugin hides the front end by redirecting to the shiny static (etc) site.

BabyLoveGrowth Integration

Up in the last 7 days:66#4,785

by BabyLoveGrowth1 month ago

Secure REST endpoint to publish posts from BabyLoveGrowth.ai backend via API key.

WPGraphQL IDE

Up in the last 7 days:30#5,227

by Joe Fusco6 days ago

Modern GraphQL IDE for WPGraphQL — schema-aware editor, execution history, saved queries, and a public endpoint mode.

Faust.js

Down in the last 7 days:11#6,190

by WP Engine13 days ago

Faust.js™ transforms your traditional WordPress installation into a flexible headless CMS.

CoCart

Down in the last 7 days:88#7,141

by CoCart Headless1 month ago

Ship your headless WooCommerce storefront faster. CoCart is the REST API built for Next.js, React, Vue, and any modern frontend — developer-first.

LLM Markdown

Up in the last 7 days:45#7,729

by Michael Sablone13 days ago

Serve clean Markdown versions of WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types for AI agents, LLM tools, and content pipelines.

WPGraphQL Blocks

Down in the last 7 days:97#10,093

by Tom Phillips1 year ago

Get gutenberg blocks as JSON through wp-graphql

CoCart CORS Support

Down in the last 7 days:93#10,202

by CoCart Headless2 years ago

Enables support for CORS to allow CoCart to work across multiple domains.

Sticklight

Up in the last 7 days:109#10,366

by Elementor2 months ago

Use WordPress authentication and permissions in external React applications via secure REST API endpoints.

WP Headless

Up in the last 7 days:16#10,593

by Joe Bailey-Roberts7 years ago

A lightweight plugin to disable the WP frontend experience.

CoCart JWT Authentication

Down in the last 7 days:14#12,643

by CoCart Headless7 months ago

JWT Authentication for CoCart API.

CoCart

Down in the last 7 days:96#12,940

by CoCart Headless2 years ago

Enhances CoCart's cart REST API response.

Publish to Netlify

Down in the last 7 days:91#15,024

by Rogério Moreira6 years ago

Easily deploy static sites to Netlify using WordPress as backend. This plugin builds your static website using Netlify webhooks to trigger the deploy …

ContentGecko Connector

Up in the last 7 days:55#19,894

by ristorehemagi4 months ago

ContentGecko Connector syncs ContentGecko posts, products, and translations with WordPress securely.

Headless REST API Security

Up in the last 7 days:638#20,410

by Md. Rakib Ullah8 months ago

Manage access to the WordPress REST API by restricting public endpoints, enabling specific route allow-listing, and handling API key authentication.

WUXT Headless WordPress API Extensions

Up in the last 7 days:21#21,832

by danielauener7 years ago

Extensions for the Rest API to provide endpoints that support a more convenient use of headless WordPress as back-end CMS.

Redirect Front-end to Login

Down in the last 7 days:22#23,554

by Benjamin Intal9 years ago

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

Overedge Connector

Up in the last 7 days:109#23,889

by timothyolu3 months ago

Connect your WordPress site to any React or Lovable-built frontend as a headless CMS — in minutes.

Static Snap

Down in the last 7 days:102#24,097

by staticsnap1 year ago

Static Snap converts your WordPress site into a static website, boosting performance, security, scalability, and SEO.

Invizo Headless Mode

Up in the last 7 days:342#24,261

by Invizo4 months ago

Turn WordPress into a headless CMS backend with frontend redirects, CORS controls, draft previews, login branding, and security hardening.

datanephew SEO Bridge

#24,478

by datanephew3 months ago

Makes Yoast SEO and Rank Math title, meta description and focus keyword fields writable through the core WordPress REST API.

GrowthSEO

Up in the last 7 days:6,133#24,626

by meetcpatel9071 month ago

Secure REST endpoint to publish posts from GrowthSEO backend via API key.

Aomark Writer

Up in the last 7 days:6,538#27,112

by alex270322 days ago

Securely publish or schedule Aomark-generated content on your WordPress site.

CoCart

Down in the last 7 days:235#28,873

by CoCart Headless2 years ago

Enables the rate limiting feature for CoCart.

Deploy Trigger for GitHub

Down in the last 7 days:364#32,931

by Facundo1 year ago

Trigger GitHub Actions workflows from WordPress when content changes. Perfect for headless WordPress setups.

Odiseo SEO Bridge

#33,802

by odiseohelp26 days ago

Registers your SEO plugin's fields in the REST API so title and meta description can be written via API.

Content Revalidation Tracker

Up in the last 7 days:224#34,298

by Dropndot Solutions1 month ago

Auto-triggers frontend revalidation on post, page, user, or taxonomy updates. Ideal for Next.js and headless WordPress setups.

AISignal Markdown Converter

Up in the last 7 days:1,660#36,236

by Rareview®1 month ago

Expose WordPress content as clean Markdown, including ACF-backed content fallbacks, through .md URLs, query parameters, and REST endpoints.

Fix API URL

Up in the last 7 days:6,087#40,291

by Ederson Peka10 days ago

Uses site_url() instead of home_url() to build the API URL. Useful for having WordPress as a Headless CMS.

SapientSEO

Up in the last 7 days:4,194#40,965

by Gal Ben-Chanoch1 year ago

Adds secured custom REST API endpoints to integrate WordPress with the SapientSEO app.

Guillotheme

Up in the last 7 days:2,161#41,098

by David Matthew5 years ago

Guillotheme chops the front-end (i.e. the head) right off your theme by restricting access to the front-end (specifically, the WordPress-generated fro …

Ardatech Bridgehead

Up in the last 7 days:1,667#41,637

by mexzyrx6 months ago

Connect your WordPress site to AI-built frontends. Ardatech Bridgehead exposes your content as clean REST API endpoints that any AI tool can build on.

Reachu Export

#42,587

by reachu2 years ago

Export products easily from your WooCommerce to Reachu.

AppNatively

Up in the last 7 days:24,358#45,226

by Crafium28 days ago

Turn your WordPress site into a native iOS and Android app. Syncs WooCommerce, FluentCart, SureCart, form and directory plugins.

EndPointy Menus

Up in the last 7 days:17,934#50,001

by Gunjan Jaswal11 days ago

Expose WordPress menus via a custom REST API endpoint for headless and external applications.

NovaCraft API Builder

#50,297

by wpcrafthub1 month ago

The free, WordPress.org-compatible REST API foundation for headless WooCommerce stores — JWT authentication, API keys, caching, and a React admin UI.

SubmitDock

#50,976

by Ali Nawaz6 days ago

Headless form backend for Next.js, React, and static sites: receive form submissions via REST API, saved in WordPress and emailed to you.

HWConnector Lite

Up in the last 7 days:5,978#51,894

by markmym5 months ago

Configure ACF REST API, CORS, and a contact form endpoint for headless WordPress — all through the admin dashboard, without touching functions.php.

ShopMobi

Up in the last 7 days:11,691#52,585

by hammadev21 month ago

Is your WooCommerce API slowing your app? Cut REST payloads up to 90% with field filtering, plus ready-made auth, password reset & Stripe endpoints.

Headless Pages

#52,872

by johnmmackey5 years ago

Disable the default Wordpress page editor when using custom fields.

Flx Modernize

Up in the last 7 days:272#53,105

by rickey292 days ago

Render your WordPress pages in Node.js while WordPress and its plugins keep running, with automatic fallback to WordPress.

DK Headless API

Up in the last 7 days:13,406#53,377

by digitized kosmos4 months ago

Turns WordPress into a high-performance, secure Headless CMS with custom REST routes, rate limiting, and smart transient caching.

HeadlessNext Connector

#54,163

by aarudhnextgen2 months ago

Connect WordPress to a Next.js / decoupled frontend and trigger automatic On-Demand ISR revalidation whenever content updates.

Static Cache Wrangler

Down in the last 7 days:1,121#55,295

by derickschaefer2 months ago

Convert Static Cache Wrangler HTML output to headless CMS import formats with pluggable architecture.

StaticQ Headless

Up in the last 7 days:11,959#55,577

by goonydev1 month ago

Headless WordPress on a Cloudflare + Astro frontend, with automatic per-URL cache updates on every edit. No rebuilds, no manual purges.

HeadlessWC

Up in the last 7 days:464#55,653

by App4You1 year ago

The ultimate solution for integrating headless checkout functionalities into your WooCommerce store

Portabrief

Up in the last 7 days:9,912#57,962

by 1click2open4 months ago

Export any WordPress page or whole site as a portable rebuild brief — BRIEF.md plus assets — to recreate it on another stack or with an AI.

REST API Only

#59,210

by jakubkanna10 months ago

Force all non-admin, non-AJAX, and non-REST API requests to return a 404 for headless or API-only sites.