9 Adding a content management system

This chapter covers

  • The pros and cons of the two types of headless CMSs
  • Choosing between the Contentful and Sanity API-based headless CMSs
  • Using WordPress as a headless CMS
  • Building a site using Gatsby’s WordPress integration
  • Using site builders to create Jamstack sites connected to a CMS

Jamstack is often associated with a file-based content management system that uses a combination of manually edited Markdown and YAML files. That’s because many static site generators default to this type of manual content management, even today. But the reality is that some form of headless content management system has become a de facto integration in most Jamstack sites.

Jamstack.org maintains a list of headless CMSs ...

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