Best headless plugins for WordPress

LightR Commerce

Down in the last 7 days:4,130#56,153

by youngdogs2 years ago

WordPress BigCommerce integration plugin. Allow your visitors to buy your products. Integrate your BigCommerce store in your blog/website.

KGraph Headless Toolkit for WPGraphQL

Up in the last 7 days:5,502#56,374

by kaustubhkhandale4 months ago

Build, inspect, test, save, and export WPGraphQL queries from a focused WordPress admin toolkit.

JAMStackPress

#57,349

by jamstackpress4 years ago

Power-up your WordPress site and get it ready for JAMStack. Take advantage of useful fields, endpoints and filters extending the WP-JSON API.

EndPointy Menus

#57,359

by Gunjan Jaswal12 days ago

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

Condixia

Down in the last 7 days:7,525#57,361

by Condixia1 month ago

Secure API keys and controlled REST access for WordPress content and selected WooCommerce data.

Decouplix Previews & Smart Purge

#57,410

by Deepak Kumar3 months ago

Optimize headless WordPress editing with secure previews, webhook dispatch queueing, automated CDN cache invalidation, and custom WP-CLI tools.

Headless Block Styles

#58,679

by fusan3 months ago

Exposes Gutenberg block inline styles and the global stylesheet over the REST API for headless frontends like Next.js.

Aptaive Builder

Up in the last 7 days:3,260#60,512

by taiveNet4 months ago

Build configurable mobile app layouts and REST APIs from WordPress and WooCommerce.

Headless GA4

#60,947

by jakubkanna7 months ago

Display lightweight GA4 traffic data in the WordPress dashboard for headless frontends.

Images Sync for Cloudflare

Down in the last 7 days:5,207#61,247

by Franky8 months ago

Auto-sync WordPress images to Cloudflare Images. Stores optimized CDN URLs in post meta — ready for headless, ACF, or classic themes.

YUI Preview Token

Down in the last 7 days:4,898#61,885

by uukidev4 months ago

Issue time-limited preview tokens for headless WordPress setups. Open drafts directly in your frontend URL without long-lived credentials.

Flx Headless

Up in the last 7 days:8,085#62,287

by rickey292 months ago

Headless rendering integration for WordPress, with automatic native fallback.

Puti Content Core

Up in the last 7 days:30#62,955

by KSI Inc. (sakakibara)1 month ago

A simple REST API plugin to embed content snippets from WordPress onto any external static website using JavaScript.

Metronyx Headless CMS Connector

Down in the last 7 days:8,203#63,184

by Arielle Phoenix6 months ago

Transform your WordPress site into a powerful headless CMS for modern frontend frameworks like Next.js, React, Vue, and more.

NexWordX

Up in the last 7 days:3,804#63,621

by SoftVoltAI13 days ago

The Visual Builder for Headless WordPress & Next.js: design pages in WordPress and serve them from a fast, secure Next.js frontend.

NovaCraft API Builder

#64,217

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.

REST API Only

#64,486

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.

Smooth API Accelerator

Down in the last 7 days:14,066#64,972

by smoothbundle26 days ago

Turn selected WordPress REST API responses into CDN-delivered JSON snapshots.

Search with Algolia Headless extention

Down in the last 7 days:586#65,010

by hide6 years ago

Simply extension plugin of WP Search with Algolia plugin. We can customize the permalink of the indices.

ReadySpace Headless SEO Bridge for Rank Math

Up in the last 7 days:8,044#65,068

by ReadySpace27 days ago

Use Rank Math SEO on a separate Next.js website. Optional WPGraphQL support, a REST alternative and guides for headless WordPress.

WP Headless Menu Editor

Down in the last 7 days:405#65,092

by zbigiman7 years ago

Menu editor for headless WordPress - independent of Appearance. Adds menus to WP REST API v2.

NEWTIV Migrate

#65,157

by newtiv25 days ago

Export your users (with their password hashes) and your content to one encrypted file, to move them into a new application without losing anyone.

Dominant Publisher

Down in the last 7 days:14,313#65,327

by Casper Depli Thomsen1 month ago

Exposes the SmartCrawl SEO title and meta description as a readable and writable "seo" field in the WordPress REST API.

Distan

Up in the last 7 days:600#65,462

by youheiokubo1 month ago

Author in WordPress, deliver static HTML — built for handing over files, not a CMS. No database, and no deploy credentials, in the deliverable.

Headless Portfolio CMS

#65,610

by Al Adil Ashrafi Saikat2 months ago

API-first headless portfolio CMS for WordPress. Seamlessly power modern frontends like Next.js, React, and Astro via a lightning-fast REST API.

CheckoutBridge

Down in the last 7 days:8,480#66,969

by MD Ikram Hossen Joy2 months ago

CheckoutBridge connects external custom landing pages directly to WooCommerce for automated Cash on Delivery (COD) order creation.

Contentrain Bridge

#67,043

by abb657 days ago

Export posts, pages, media and ACF fields as Markdown/JSON to a ZIP or your GitHub repo, ready for Astro or any framework that reads Markdown.

DK Headless API

Down in the last 7 days:11,707#67,243

by digitized kosmos4 months ago

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

HWConnector Lite

Down in the last 7 days:9,234#68,163

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.

Headless Deploy Panel for Vercel

#68,547

by eeeurico28 days ago

Trigger and monitor Vercel deployments of your headless front end, and revalidate single Next.js pages, from the WordPress admin.

Altered Digital Migration to Sanity

Up in the last 7 days:3,748#68,752

by altereddigital6 days ago

Migrate WordPress content — Gutenberg, Elementor, WPBakery, Divi, or Beaver Builder — into your Sanity.io project. Run a free site scan and see the fu …

Hatch Connect

Down in the last 7 days:14,096#69,252

by Host My Blogtoday

Headless WordPress with no migration or host change. Deploy a fast Astro frontend to Cloudflare Workers from your dashboard. REST API, no GraphQL.

Code and core Headless Fast API

#69,611

by Code and core1 month ago

Fast, cacheable headless API endpoints answered before the theme, the REST API and WP_Query load.

ShopMobi

#70,526

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.

Newsletter for UltimateSales.AI

#70,549

by ReadySpace26 days ago

Email your UltimateSales.AI newsletter subscribers when you publish a new WordPress post, with a link to read it.

Content Bridge for Commerce

Down in the last 7 days:8,031#70,670

by Tomohiro Shiotani9 months ago

Bridge WordPress editorial content to Shopify and other commerce platforms via a simple REST API.

OCMLabs Content Bridge for Magento

Down in the last 7 days:3,069#71,246

by ocmdeveloper3 months ago

Serve menus, SEO data, widgets, and related content to a Magento 2 storefront over a key-protected REST API, with signed cache purge webhooks.

Artificial Poets Reusable Components CDN

#71,410

by Artificial Poets3 months ago

Turn your WordPress site into a content delivery network for reusable components — JSON, text, and files — shared across sites.

Infospica Headless API

Down in the last 7 days:1,184#71,507

by Infospica6 days ago

WordPress REST API plugin for headless CMS — custom namespace, full CRUD, CPT support, ACF integration, and secure authentication.

Nexora Engine

Up in the last 7 days:1,613#71,887

by Auralogics Labs1 month ago

Enterprise WordPress Infrastructure Platform. Static delivery, Ghost Protocol fingerprint cloaking, and intelligent automation in one plugin.

Portabrief

Down in the last 7 days:13,392#71,931

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.

Topiqu Sync

#72,357

by topiqu22 months ago

Synchronize published Topiqu articles into native WordPress posts.

FlxWoo

#72,373

by rickey294 months ago

WooCommerce infrastructure plugin providing a REST API, Stripe Checkout integration, and server-side rendering for headless checkout workflows.

Tajra

Down in the last 7 days:17,952#72,485

by tajraplatform5 months ago

Connect WordPress to Tajra for products, cart, checkout, and order tracking.

TGEI Semi Headless

#72,550

by Too Good Enterprises Inc.1 year ago

TGEI Semi Headless can fully or partially disable the frontend of Wordpress for headless Wordpress sites.

Gallop

Down in the last 7 days:18,546#73,583

by gallopsoftware26 days ago

A REST API for headless Next.js sites: a page's post, SEO, and site data in one request, plus comments and member accounts that stay in WordPress.

SimplyIrfan Markdown

Down in the last 7 days:7,905#73,629

by Irfan27 days ago

Expose public WordPress content as clean .md routes with front matter, images, rendered Markdown, and optional page-aware JSON-LD.

HeadlessNext Connector

Down in the last 7 days:3,987#73,687

by aarudhnextgen3 months ago

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

Headless Converter

Down in the last 7 days:21,066#74,036

by Atte Liimatainen4 years ago

Converts frontend to JSON response when request is done with certain conditions.

Flx Modernize

Down in the last 7 days:1,956#74,281

by rickey29today

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