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CMS Engineering

CMS Development Services

Headless and traditional content platforms — built so editors ship without filing a ticket.

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A CMS project succeeds or fails on the editing experience. Teams pick a platform on its feature matrix, model content as a mirror of their page designs, and end up with an admin nobody wants to open. We model content around what it means rather than where it renders, which is what makes the same content reusable across a site, an app, and an email.

We build on Payload, Strapi, Sanity, Directus and Contentful for headless work, and still do serious WordPress engineering where that is the right call. We also run the migrations off platforms teams have outgrown — including the messy ones with fifteen years of posts and no consistent structure.

What we build

Headless CMS builds

Content modeling, editor UX, preview, and the front end that consumes it — usually Next.js, rendered fast and cached properly.

Migrations

Moving off WordPress, Drupal or a homegrown CMS with URLs, redirects and SEO equity preserved rather than rediscovered later.

Editorial workflow

Drafts, scheduled publishing, approvals and role-based permissions that match how your team actually reviews work.

Multi-site & multi-brand

One codebase and one content backend serving several brands or locales, without forking per site.

Structured content & APIs

Content exposed as a clean API so the same source feeds web, mobile, email and partners.

Performance & caching

ISR, edge caching and image pipelines so a content-heavy site stays fast under real traffic.

How an engagement runs

01

Model

We map your content types, relationships and reuse before touching a platform — the modeling decides how good the result is.

02

Select

A platform recommendation written against your model, your team's skills, and your budget for hosting and licensing.

03

Build

Backend, editor experience and front end delivered together, with editors using the admin well before launch.

04

Migrate & launch

Content moved, redirects mapped, and search visibility verified before and after cutover.

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Questions clients ask us

Headless or traditional?
Headless when content feeds more than one surface, or when the front end needs to be a real application. Traditional when a marketing team needs page-level control and the site is the only consumer. Plenty of projects are genuinely better off on WordPress, and we will say so.
Will a migration cost us search rankings?
Not if redirects and URL structure are handled deliberately — that is the part most migrations get wrong. We map every live URL before cutover and verify afterwards. It is the same discipline behind our software development services generally.
Can our marketing team edit without a developer?
That is the point of the engagement. If a routine content change needs a deploy, the content model was wrong, and we treat that as a defect rather than a limitation.
Do you host it?
We can, and often deploy alongside the rest of your stack — see cloud deployment. We are equally happy handing it to your team with the infrastructure as code.

Work with a software development company

DEV.co is a software development company with senior engineers across web, data, cloud, and AI development services. CMS Engineering work rarely arrives on its own — it comes attached to a product, a migration, or a platform, and we build all three.

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Have a real project conversation with a senior engineer before you commit to an approach.

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