Meet WP Hearth: Obsidian
It's Headless WordPress, but closer to the WordPress editing experience that you already know.
Blocks-driven editing that aims to remove the complexity behind Headless WordPress, by giving power back to clients & editors as the world migrates towards Headless CMS platforms being more of a standard. Especially in enterprise environments.
WP Hearth is built on a self-hosted architecture that aims to demystify the experience of installation and management of Headless WordPress. It not only hosts its own WordPress instance, but builds its own frontend, too.
So we can make WordPress work For you
WordPress meets React.js infrastructure, without sacrificing its interface.
WordPress meets GraphQL, and gains major upgrades to performance, scalability and security.
Why Headless WordPress?
Because growing pains at scale can be vulnerable and expensive.
Performance ceilings that can really start to show an exponential curve when you get into the range of thousands of posts, pages, products, etc. Especially when heavy traffic enters the chat. Then there are security breaches that can arise accidentally, and be hard to track down, due to the nature of the attack surfaces that some implementers don't know exist, let alone know to close.
That's not to say WordPress itself is one big "attack me" beacon. No. We still love you, WordPress. It just means that the best way to protect and scale with WordPress at enterprise levels may be to isolate it...And that's part of what we've done with WP Hearth: Obsidian.
So we can make WordPress work For you
What Else Does WP Hearth Do?
The "Headless CMS" concept isn't exactly new. So what does Obsidian do differently?
Keep WordPress Away & Hidden from Prying Eyes.
One of the largest vulnerability-prone surfaces for a CMS is the surface surrounding it. With stacks that still provide direct connection between user and server so frequently, we end up with more frequent opportunity for exposure.
WP Hearth : Obsidian removes as much of that surface as possible from the equation to minimize exposure risk and refine control of what is exposed.
This helps aim to leave "the dashboard" as out of sight, out of mind as possible. Moving your admin dashboard "away" isn't new, but we make it easy, integrated, and more secure. You can even restrict access to specific devices.
Dive Deeper into Why This is Beneficial and How WP Hearth : Obsidian Obscures Your Presence.
Efficient, Responsible Resource Usage, to Stabilize Billing.
In Headless WordPress, many ecosystems seem to rely on ancillary servers for trying to scale build-time budgets. It seems smart and can keep things exquisitely cheap at first.
Then you find that those same initial build-time bills are now representative of thousands of content entities...cases can sneak up where it doesn't seem too cheap anymore, depending on build methods.
WP Hearth : Obsidian is self-contained. Meaning you only need one server, instead of multiple. And with how React/Next.js serves your content over pre-rendered static HTML, that it caches aggressively? You don't need a powerhouse.
Discover more ways that WP Hearth : Obsidian simplifies your Headless WordPress Journey
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Yes We Also Work
With Other Agencies.
With nearly 15 years working exclusively in WordPress, we’ve built premium workflows and toolkits and we’re not shy about sharing what works. Stability in your users’ experience and the security of their data aren’t trade secrets; they’re essentials.
At many agencies, there always seems to be that low-level background noise - recurring speedbumps in workflow that everyone knows about, but nobody has time to address. Sometimes it’s “we’ll fix it when we can,” other times it’s “how do we fix it?” Neither ever really gaining any traction.
Either way, we can help. We’ll work alongside your team to provide the missing expertise, the extra hands, or both.
Coming Soon
A Headless Solution.
With Headless CMS’s getting more stage time, WordPress lacks smooth, seamless self-hosted options for Headless WordPress.
We’re looking to put a dent in that.
Current soft-launch estimate is Late 2025 / Early 2026.
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Spoiler: You're now actually on this platform.