Build a headless website fast with WordPress, the world’s most popular CMS, and Next.js, the most popular React framework. A free and open source solution by the experts at Fueled (formerly 10up).
Get Started With HeadstartWPHeadstartWP is minimalistic and highly developer extensible, making it easy to build upon our crisp foundation without excessive engineering or blocking restrictions. Get common essentials like routing, content previews, multisite support, Yoast SEO integration, and block rendering support out of the box – so you can focus your engineering on what makes your site unique.
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Build and launch your site where you want. HeadstartWP can be deployed to any hosting environment, whether you’d prefer a managed platform like WordPress VIP or WP Engine, have your own AWS or Vercel stack, or any combination. Choose the metal that works best for you.
HeadstartWP supports modern Next.js — including the App Router, React Server Components, and Next.js 15 — and all of the rendering patterns: Static Site Generation (SSG), on-demand Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), and Server Side Rendering (SSR). Pick the approach that fits your site and infrastructure, and watch your PageSpeed scores climb.
Reach a global audience with built-in support for multiple language websites. HeadstartWP includes out-of-the-box capabilities for multilingual translation and localization through a native integration with the Polylang plugin.
HeadstartWP is a solution from the WordPress experts at Fueled (formerly 10up), inspired and actively used by clients, including some of the most well-known and high-trafficked brands in the world. We continue to iterate and improve on this framework for current and future projects, ensuring that each new release advances our objective to make it one of the best solutions for headless WordPress implementation.
Hire us to help plan or deliver your headless buildA bug fix that restores valid cross-domain redirects when the source and destination share the same pathname, eliminating unexpected 404 errors.
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Fixes a rewrite handling issue in WordPress multisite setups, ensuring correct routing for HeadstartWP-powered Next.js sites.
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