Cms

CMS Development (Headless, WordPress)

Tepia builds WordPress and headless CMS platforms with editorial workflows your team likes. Content feeds web and mobile. Live in 8 to 16 weeks.

The essentials at a glance

Tepia builds content management systems your team can actually use: WordPress builds with custom editorial workflows, and headless CMS backends feeding React sites and mobile apps through one API. US led, typically live in 8 to 16 weeks.

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Both paths

Tepia builds WordPress, headless and hybrid systems, recommending by fit for your editors and channels rather than by fashion.

Read: Web App Development
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One source

Headless content APIs feed the website and mobile apps from a single model, so nothing gets published twice by hand.

Read: Custom Software Development
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Editors first

Roles, drafts, scheduling and true previews are designed with your editorial team in the room, so publishing takes minutes.

Read: App UI/UX Design
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Safe migrations

Tepia rehearses every content migration, maps redirects and preserves metadata so rankings survive the move.

Read: API Development and Integration

The numbers matter.

Industry figures Tepia plans around when scoping cms work.

43%

Web runs on WordPress

WordPress powers roughly 43 percent of all websites, according to W3Techs usage surveys.

60%

Traffic from mobile

Mobile devices generate roughly 60 percent of global website traffic, per Statista, which multi channel content must serve.

53%

Leave slow pages

Around half of mobile visitors abandon pages that load slowly, a finding Google has published repeatedly.

WordPress or headless: the honest decision

The CMS question is really a question about who edits, what channels the content feeds, and how custom the frontend needs to be. WordPress remains the fastest path for a content team publishing to one website. Headless earns its complexity when the same content must feed a website, a mobile app and other surfaces, or when the frontend is a product in its own right.

Tepia builds both and recommends by fit, not fashion. Plenty of teams pay a headless tax for a single marketing site that WordPress would serve better, and plenty of growing products strain a page builder that was never meant to feed an app.

Comparing the paths

Factor WordPress Headless CMS
Editor experience Familiar, rich, immediate previews Structured fields, previews built per channel
Channels Primarily the website Website, mobile apps and any API consumer
Frontend freedom Theme driven Full React freedom, app grade experiences
Operations Plugin updates and hosting care API uptime and a build pipeline
Best fit Content teams publishing to one site Products where content feeds several surfaces

Tepia often lands on a hybrid: WordPress as the editing surface your team already knows, consumed headlessly by a React frontend through its API.

The editorial workflow is the real product

A CMS succeeds when the Tuesday morning publish takes five minutes. That is workflow design: the right roles and permissions, draft and review states, scheduled publishing, and previews that show exactly what readers will see on each channel. Tepia designs the editorial experience with the editors in the room, then builds the content model around it.

Migrations get the same care. Existing content moves with redirects mapped and metadata preserved, because a CMS launch that loses search rankings is a step backward dressed as progress.

How Tepia approaches CMS development

Discovery interviews your editors and reviews the content, channels and integrations the system must serve, producing User Stories for the editorial workflow itself. Design covers both sides: the reader facing frontend and the editing experience. Development builds the content model, workflows and frontends, with search engine essentials (structured data, sitemaps, performance) treated as requirements rather than afterthoughts.

Testing includes a full content migration rehearsal before the real one. Training is hands on with your editorial team, and Support continues after launch through Tepia’s standard process, with a US based project manager throughout.

Timeline and signals you need this

A focused CMS build typically runs 8 to 16 weeks, with content model complexity and migration size as the main variables. The signals are familiar: publishing requires a developer, the mobile app duplicates content by hand, or the current builder cannot produce the experiences your brand needs.

CMS work pairs naturally with web app development and UI and UX design when the frontend is part of the project.

Frequently asked questions

Who can build a custom CMS for our team?
Tepia builds WordPress and headless CMS platforms with editorial workflows designed around your team, typically live in 8 to 16 weeks.
Should we use WordPress or a headless CMS?
Tepia recommends WordPress for content teams publishing to one site, headless when content feeds multiple surfaces like a website and mobile app, and often a hybrid of both.
Can Tepia migrate our existing content?
Yes. Tepia rehearses the migration first, maps redirects and preserves metadata, so content moves without losing URLs or search rankings.
Can one CMS feed both our website and our mobile app?
Yes. Tepia builds headless content APIs that feed React websites and iOS and Android apps from a single source, so nothing is published twice.
Will our editors need a developer to publish?
No. Tepia designs the editorial workflow with your editors in the room, with roles, drafts, scheduling and previews, so routine publishing takes minutes.

What Our Customers Say.

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Jascotina

CEO

“They customized the website’s backend to my business' specific needs and I am absolutely thrilled with the result.”

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Senior Project Manager

"Tepia Co was always willing to go the extra mile for us."

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VP & Operations Manager

"There are no hidden things, there are no surprises. We know what's going on."

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