Last updated June 21, 2021

Explain Like I'm Five: Headless CMS

By Tinloof

Headless CMS can be tricky to understand for non-developers stakeholders. This short piece explains what a Headless CMS is and shows examples of how it's used.

This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.

In this post, we explain in 4 minutes what a headless CMS is and show you how it's used.

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