Multi-site publisher · USA

One headless CMS for a multi-site publisher

A publisher ran several sites on tangled installs that were slow to update and hard to keep consistent. The brief: one headless CMS that powers every site from a single, fast admin.

Scope: Multi-site CMS Stack: PHP · MySQL · REST API Timeline: 8 weeks
cms_admin · content
updated today
Sites on one CMS
7
unified
Publish time
−68%
one place
Pages managed
4.8k
live
API response
40ms
cached

Publishing time: before vs after

minutes · lower is better

Content by type

share of items

◆ Findings
  • Separate installs meant duplicated work and inconsistent content.
  • Updating a shared element had to be repeated site by site.
  • No clean API, so reusing content elsewhere was painful.
✓ What we did
  • Built a single role-based admin pushing content to every site over REST.
  • Added reusable blocks, a media library, SEO fields and scheduling.
  • Handed over full source code — no vendor lock-in.

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