I’ve been working on a project built with Next.js. Like most projects that want to be discoverable by humans, it needed a blog.
I didn’t want to:
run a headless CMS (Strapi, Contentful, etc.)
build and maintain a full blog UI in Next.js
deal with SEO tradeoffs from putting content on a separate subdomain
So I went with a slightly unfashionable but practical solution: WordPress.
The goal was simple:
Main app at yoursite.ai (Next.js)
Blog at yoursite.ai/blog/...
WordPress doing what it’s good at: writing, previews, publishing
No SEO penalty from split domains
There are a lot of questions online about this setup, and surprisingly little concrete guidance. This is the approach that worked for me.
I didn’t want to:
run a headless CMS (Strapi, Contentful, etc.)
build and maintain a full blog UI in Next.js
deal with SEO tradeoffs from putting content on a separate subdomain
So I went with a slightly unfashionable but practical solution: WordPress.
The goal was simple:
Main app at yoursite.ai (Next.js)
Blog at yoursite.ai/blog/...
WordPress doing what it’s good at: writing, previews, publishing
No SEO penalty from split domains
There are a lot of questions online about this setup, and surprisingly little concrete guidance. This is the approach that worked for me.