6 Best Headless CMS for Personalization in 2026

Who’s Left to Build WordPress?

WordPress chiếm 41,5% thị trường web nhưng đang đối mặt bốn thách thức lớn: lực lượng developer già đi, xu hướng chuyển sang nền tảng quản lý, AI thay thế nhu cầu xây dựng website đơn giản, và khủng hoảng quản trị do Matt Mullenweg kiểm soát quá mức. Nền kinh tế plugin đang phân hóa khi các plugin doanh nghiệp vẫn vững chắc nhưng những plugin đơn giản không có tương lai trước AI.

Đọc bài này để hiểu cách WordPress đang mất vị thế trong thị trường web và tại sao sự thay đổi cơ chế quản trị, thay vì chỉ dựa vào xu hướng công nghệ, mới có thể cứu lại tương lai của nền tảng này.

Explore what's next

Joomla 6.2 Alpha 2 is now available for testing, targeting a stable release on October 13, 2026. This alpha includes 13 merged features and fixes such as a new backend help page, differentiated delete/uninstall icons, image and figure classes for articles, multiload of article associations, and various bug fixes. The release is intended for extension developers to test compatibility and for users to explore upcoming features — not for production use. Nightly builds are available, and a free test site can be launched at launch.joomla.org. Future plans include stability and performance improvements for large sites, accessibility enhancements, and bug fixes.

Alchemy 8.3 released

AlchemyCMS 8.3 has been released with a completely redesigned admin dashboard featuring configurable, lazy-loaded widgets. New wildcard URL support allows dynamic content routing via URL pattern matching. The release also replaces the custom select web component with Tom Select (removing a jQuery dependency), updates TinyMCE to 8.6.0, adds automatic element cache invalidation on related object changes, and includes several developer ergonomics improvements. Breaking changes include removal of the AlchemyHTMLElement base class and soft-removal of Ruby 3.2 from the test matrix. Upgrading requires bumping the gem version and running the built-in upgrader.

The AI era requires a different kind of experimentation.

Traditional A/B testing playbooks are becoming obsolete in the AI era due to four major shifts: collapsing UI surfaces, accelerating product velocity, AI-driven personalization replacing manual tweaks, and rising per-usage costs from LLM tokens. The author argues teams should stop wasting engineering resources on minor UI optimizations, take bigger bets especially on monetization, and run experiments for 1-2 months rather than 2 weeks to capture long-term cohort effects. A contrarian point is also made: not everything needs to be tested — AI has already validated many best practices (like showing paid features to free users), so teams should adopt those as defaults and reserve experimentation for genuinely high-impact, system-level changes like freemium boundaries and credit systems.

How Headless WordPress Works with Next.js

A comprehensive guide to building headless WordPress sites with Next.js as the frontend. Covers how the two systems communicate via REST API or WPGraphQL, the trade-offs between SSG, SSR, and ISR rendering strategies (with ISR recommended for most CMS-driven sites), and the operational challenges of running a split architecture. Also discusses content modeling with ACF, editorial preview workflows, hosting options (split vs. consolidated platforms like WP Engine), and popular starter templates like Faust.js and next-wp.