Case Study - A lightweight WordPress alternative
CMS is a headless content management system, which is fast, flexible and SEO-friendly. You can use it instead of WordPress and reduce the costs.
- Client
- CMS
- Year
- Service
- Web design, Custom CMS

Overview
WordPress is literally carrying the Internet; nearly 50% of all websites is using WordPress. And it deserves this success; it is simple and makes the job done.
WordPress is fine for simple websites like blogs but when things start to be complicated, it starts to feel complicated as well. For example; dashboards and web sites with custom logic wouldn't be easy to implement in WordPress. You can feel this when you try to add a custom workflow between users and content.
We developed a custom CMS solution which is actually a headless CMS. Headless CMS is an answer to heavy old-fashion monolithic CMS frameworks. Headless CMS is lightweight so faster than monolithic ones and also provides enough flexibility to design the user interface however you like.
You can examine the live example here: https://cms.ismailarilik.com Please contact us to get access to the admin panel of it.
What we did
- Web design
- Frontend (Next.js)
- Custom CMS
- SEO
This is what I’d expect from an admin panel; easy, fast and flexible. I also like the modern looking and intuitive flow of the website.

Travel Blogger
- Stars on G2
- 4.7
- Customization
- 94%
- Meets requirements
- 91%
- Product direction
- 93%