Headless Platform Documentation

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Welcome! This site contains reference documentation for the Headless Platform, WP Engine’s hosting solution for headless WordPress applications.

Try the Headless Platform for Free?

You can try the Headless Platform for free using a sandbox account for pre-production sites. WordPress migration from another host is included in our paid plans, and your credit card won’t be charged unless you upgrade. This is a 100% risk-free way to try headless WordPress 🎉

Scalable Platform

The WP Engine Headless Platform consists of three main layers all tuned to work together to provide the best hosting experience for headless WordPress sites:

• A global edge CDN
• Auto-scaling Node.js containers running your framework code
• A WordPress install using GraphQL/REST APIs

Developer-focused Features

The Headless Platform provides the following features that enable developers to deliver great user experiences quickly:

• Git-push to deploy from GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab
• Create preview environments from pull requests
• Rebuild your application using webhooks or rollback to a previous version with one click
• Automatic builds, on code push, can be disabled

Integrated Tools

Since WP Engine hosts both parts of your infrastructure, our Headless Platform is able to optimize across the stack to provide developers with a more stable foundation for headless projects, all backed by WP Engine’s award-winning support and team of headless WordPress experts.

Here are just a few example of how our platform does that:

• Automatically scopes your build process to your WordPress site’s capacity, which means a lower chance of DDoS’ing your WordPress site during builds
• Supports WPGraphQL Smart Cache network cache out-of-the-box using Faust.js, the Next.js based project designed specifically for headless WordPress
• Deploy full-stack example blueprints with one click to get you started with both basic sites and deeper integrations like the Shopify eCommerce provider.

Do you have an account yet?

All the following documentation pages assume you already have a free or paid Headless Platform account. You can try it for free using a sandbox account for pre-production sites.