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Engineering notes on headless WordPress, headless WooCommerce, architecture, performance, and rendering.

2026-06-01

Headless WordPress decouples the CMS from the frontend, allowing teams to build with any rendering layer while WordPress handles content and administration.

2026-06-05

Headless WooCommerce Architecture

A structural overview of how WooCommerce operates in a headless context — what moves to the API layer, what must remain server-side, and where the boundaries are.

2026-06-10

Pure Headless vs Hybrid

Pure headless and hybrid WooCommerce architectures make different tradeoffs around checkout ownership, plugin compatibility, and operational complexity.

2026-06-15

Why Headless Projects Fail

Most headless WooCommerce projects fail for the same structural reasons — not technology choices, but incorrect assumptions about what the API layer can own.

2026-06-20

Rendering Strategies

SSR, SSG, ISR, and partial prerendering each make different tradeoffs for headless WooCommerce storefronts. The right choice depends on what each route needs to know at request time.

2026-06-25

API-first Commerce

API-first commerce treats the commerce layer as an internal service with a defined contract. The storefront, checkout, and operations tooling all consume that API rather than sharing a runtime.