WordPress, Headless or .NET? CMS Developers Matched to the Stack Around Your Content
Engineers who build content platforms together with the Next.js front end, .NET back end or mobile app that reads them.
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CMS developers for the code that reads your content
CMS developers at Cortance are engineers who build content platforms on WordPress, on headless CMS such as Contentful, Strapi and Sanity, and on .NET CMS such as Umbraco. As of October 2026, 21 developers in our network work with CMS. When you hire CMS developers through us, we match the stack around the CMS as closely as possible. That means the Next.js front end, the .NET back end or the mobile app that reads the content.
WordPress, headless or .NET: which kind of CMS project is yours?
The deciding question is who edits the content and how many places it goes. One marketing site whose editors build pages themselves usually fits WordPress, which runs 58.6% of sites with a known CMS, according to W3Techs in October 2026. Content that feeds a website and a mobile app, or a group of sites, fits a headless CMS. There, the content lives behind an API, and each front end renders it its own way. A portal that shares single sign-on, members and a CRM with a .NET back end fits Umbraco, because the CMS then runs in the same stack as everything else. Each of these routes has its own page below, with the engineers we match for it.
Headless CMS work is front-end and back-end work
A headless CMS stores the content, but someone still has to build everything the visitor sees. Maksym P. integrated Strapi into a monorepo of more than 25 EdTech marketing sites built on Next.js, with shared UI libraries across all of them. Serhii O. built reusable React components fed by Contentful for an airport lounge and membership platform used by Priority Pass. In both projects, the CMS was one dependency among many, and the engineering effort sat in the front end around it.
A common failure in headless projects is a content model that copies the page layout. A homepage modelled as one long rich-text field works until a second front end, such as a mobile app, needs the same content in pieces. Draft preview is the other gap: editors publish without seeing the page because nobody built preview into the front end. Cortance matches headless CMS work to engineers whose project history covers the front end and the content model together.
What does an AI feature need from your CMS?
An AI feature reads content through the same API as any other client, so it inherits the content model's quality. Yurii Dz. worked on the backend of a consumer AI mobile app that delivered content from the Sanity CMS API alongside features built on AWS Bedrock. He used Cursor and Claude Code to speed up the routine handler code in that backend. Content stored as clean fields lets a model summarise, translate or recommend it, while text with layout markup baked in produces unreliable output. We recommend that AI-generated drafts land in the CMS as drafts, with an editor approving every publish.
Tell us who edits and where the content goes
Send us the CMS you run or plan to run, the front ends that read it and the people who publish. We shortlist developers whose projects match that setup, and the one you choose can start within 2 days.
CMS platforms we match developers for
Pick the platform closest to your project. Each page shows the engineers and projects behind it.
WordPress sites and themes
Marketing sites, learning platforms and corporate sites where editors build pages themselves. The largest CMS group in our network.
Custom fields and editor-first themes
WordPress builds where Advanced Custom Fields structure the content, so editors fill fields instead of rearranging layout.
WooCommerce stores
Stores where the catalog, checkout and blog share one WordPress install, with payment gateways and stock sync around it.
Contentful behind Next.js and React
Headless content for websites and apps, where the engineer builds the components and the content model together.
Umbraco on .NET
Content, members and payments inside an ASP.NET stack, often with single sign-on and a CRM connected to the site.
Webflow marketing sites
Marketing sites built in Webflow next to a product written in React, Next.js or .NET by the same engineer.
Two content platforms where the CMS met the rest of the stack
Umbraco with members, payments and a CRM
David M. built a platform on Umbraco where administrators manage content and memberships and users pay online. He connected it to the organization's CRM through WCF services so member data stays in sync.
A Next.js store on Contentful with a Strapi blog
Aram M. built an e-commerce site for a pool-care products maker on Next.js and Contentful, so staff manage products without a developer. He added a multi-page blog on React and Strapi with SEO-friendly pages.
What to settle about your content before the first sprint
Fields first, layout second
Ask the candidate to sketch the content types before any page. A good model names things by meaning, such as product, author or course, rather than by position on the page. Content stored that way can feed a second website, a mobile app or an AI feature without a rewrite.
Preview and publishing
With a headless CMS, editors only see drafts if the front end supports a preview mode. Ask who builds that preview and how scheduled publishing reaches the site. If nobody owns it, editors end up checking the live page after they publish.
Migrations that keep search traffic
Moving to a new CMS changes URLs, media paths and internal links. A plan should list every old URL with its new address and a permanent redirect, move images with their alt text, and keep page titles and meta descriptions. Ask for that list before the first import script runs.
Roles and permissions
Decide who can draft, who can publish and who can change the content model. Changing a field type on a live site can break every page that uses it, so model changes belong to developers, not editors.
Warning signs when you interview a CMS developer
- Content types named after pages, such as Homepage Section 3.
- A page builder proposed for every screen, including content that a mobile app will need.
- No plan for draft preview on a headless setup.
- A migration estimate with no redirect map.
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