Gallop WP Connects Next.js to Headless WordPress, Effortlessly

Keep the WordPress you write in. Lose the theme that slows you down. Gallop WP pipes every page’s content, SEO, and settings straight into your Next.js front end in a single request. Use the Gallop editor to easily publish Next.js sites connected to your WordPress CMS, for the most powerful website possible.

Built on Headless WordPress

Real sites running Gallop WP.

Next.js loads instantly 30k images, 5k pages, 3k+ blog posts, api fetched from WordPress.

dougnewby.com

Architecturally Significant Homes

Migrating from old WordPress template to headless with Next.js was easy

tpaynelaw.com

Payne, Powell, Truitt & Chandler

We can deploy multiple domains reading from one WordPress install.

dallasmodernhomesforsale.com

Douglas Newby & Associates

Next.js is so much faster for front end loading that using a WordPress template.

cmwelectric.com

CMW Electric

Only in Next.js can you build a blog like this, with great SEO and structured data.

douglasnewby.com

Douglas Newby

Every one of these sites edits in WordPress and ships a fast Next.js front using our Gallop WP plugin. Headless content, real Google rankings, no theme holding them back. Same great WordPress publishing experience.

REST API

Everything a page needs, in one request

Hand Gallop a URI and it returns the whole page in a single response: the full post, its seo metadata, and your global site data, already joined, already resolved, ready to render. GET|POST /gallop/v1/post handles posts and pages, and POST /gallop/v1/category does the same for taxonomy archives. No waterfall of /wp/v2/posts, /wp/v2/media, meta, and taxonomy calls per page. One round trip instead of five, with no JWT, API keys, or complicated authentication to set up. Your front end stays simple, and your pages load fast.

The SEO is done for you. With Yoast active, the seo block is populated straight from Yoast’s indexables (canonical, meta description, OpenGraph, robots flags, reading time) so every page ships search-ready out of the box. Without Yoast, seo comes back as an empty object instead of disappearing, so your front end can check it and fall back to its own defaults.

A request to /gallop/v1/post returning post, SEO, and site data

Built In

Login, editing, and cache revalidation, already wired up

Moving off a WordPress template usually means rebuilding everything it gave you for free. Gallop templates ship with it already done. Cookie-based login is wired into the front end through the Gallop WP plugin, so editors sign in on your Next.js site with their normal WordPress credentials. No JWT layer, no separate auth service to stand up, and no API keys to manage.

Editing works the way your team already knows. Publish or update a post or page in WordPress and the Gallop plugin tells your Next.js site to revalidate the affected routes and clear their cache, so changes and new posts go live instantly with no full redeploy. Login, editing, and cache invalidation are all baked into the template, so you keep the WordPress workflow your team relies on and still ship a fast Next.js front end.

Admin

Settings and custom post types, configured from WordPress

Point Gallop at your Next.js production URL and it 301-redirects public WordPress front-end requests to the matching path on your headless host. Admin, REST API, and previews are left untouched.

Register REST-enabled custom post types from the Post Types tab and they’re immediately available through the Gallop namespace. No register_post_type() boilerplate, no developer round trip. Core post types are left alone, and content you create survives a deactivate/uninstall.

Get Gallop WP

Drop the plugin into any WordPress install and pull your posts, pages, and SEO straight into your Next.js website with a single fetch.

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About

A modern, AI-built blog and publishing template for writers, journalists, and content creators. Keep WordPress as your editor and authoring backend, then ship a blazing-fast headless Next.js front end that publishes at the speed of thought, outshines the competition, and ranks #1 on Google.

Features

  • 🚀 Next.js 16.2 with App Router
  • ⚛️ React 19 for cutting-edge performance
  • 🎨 Tailwind CSS 4.2 for pixel-perfect design
  • 🔌 Headless WordPress - Keep WordPress as your authoring backend and serve a fast, decoupled Next.js front end
  • ✍️ TSX-powered posts - Articles authored in WordPress and exported as TSX components for full design control
  • 📚 Rich blog archives - Category, tag, author, and year pages built in
  • 🗺️ Auto-generated sitemaps for posts, authors, categories, and tags
  • 🖼️ Image processing with automatic optimization via Sharp
  • 🔍 Built-in search powered by FlexSearch with Algolia Autocomplete
  • 🔦 Lightbox galleries for post images and media
  • 🎞️ Swiper carousels for image galleries and sliders
  • 💬 Share counts powered by Prisma and Vercel KV cache

The technology

Every dependency is battle-tested in production and chosen for stability, performance, and long-term maintainability.

  • Next.js v16.2.4
  • React v19.2.5
  • Tailwind CSS v4.2.2
  • Headless UI v2.2.10
  • Prisma v7.2.0
  • Vercel KV v3.0.0
  • Valtio v2.3.1
  • Swiper v12.1.4
  • Yet Another React Lightbox v3.31.0
  • FlexSearch v0.8.212