In WordPress, you might combine three or four plugins just to add post types, meaning you need to manually migrate changes between environments. With Payload, you write your schema in code, version control it, and migrate changes easily.

The Payload team has built headless WP sites for almost 7 years, and it certainly had its place, but its time is now over. Using it in a headless context is no longer relevant. This repo shows why. It includes a WordPress site with a typical ACF usage example as well as how to replicate that exact same functionality in Payload.

December 1, 2024 - Enormous network payloads is a fancy way of telling you to reduce page size.

February 8, 2021 - BINGO! - Along with a list of plugins the site is using we find that the default Wordpress credentials are being used!

September 30, 2024 - Here’s a specific doc to send data to Make (Integromat): https://wp-webhooks.com/docs/knowledge-base/send-wordpress-data-to-make-integromat-with-wp-webhooks/, and the docs for the general use of the Triggers: https://wp-webhooks.com/docs/knowledge-base/what-are-wp-webhooks-triggers/. You could consider using multiple URLs to properly define which trigger/payload is for each, however, if the triggers you’re looking to work with and differentiate are Post updated and Post deleted, while the payload is basically the same, the post status could help you learn which one is which, as deleting the posts would change their status accordingly!

October 27, 2025 - First, being troubleshooting the issue you should diagnose what is actually causing the enormous network payloads. We recommend using our speed test tool SiteSpeedBot.com for this purpose. You’ll get a detailed breakdown of the page weight by the type of files.

August 6, 2022 - This means, the larger the payload, the bigger your page size – the longer your page will take to load. I would say that 1.6MB is still too large, especially if you want your page to be fast on mobile, and especially if you’re not on top notch hosting, which many WordPress site owners are not.

April 14, 2025 - An enormous network payload increases the time taken to display the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), leading to a poor user experience. For people using cellular data to access your WordPress site, a heavy network payload will make them consume more data.

July 29, 2024 - Payload keeps it very simple. Collections are structured data groups, like pages, blog posts, or users. Globals are single-document collections. We'll use the Users Collection for post authors, create a Blog Post Categories Collection, and utilize blocks similar to Gutenberg blocks for layout. We'll also create a Media Collection with uploads enabled. For navigation menus, we'll create header and footer globals. Pages and Posts in WordPress will be migrated to Payload Collections.

April 13, 2023 - Deactivating themes and plugins features or removing heavy plugins entirely can help you reduce page size and avoid an enormous network payload. You can choose the fastest WordPress themes and plugins.

January 5, 2026 - Network payload is the amount of data that needs to be downloaded to view a web page. Here's how to avoid enormous network payloads that slow down your website.

September 20, 2022 - Reducing the number of elements on your pages will reduce page size and network payloads. ... If you are not too familiar with JavaScript, then a WordPress plugin may be the easiest path.

Many high‑impact WordPress/plugin flaws are application-specific logic/auth bugs that look like benign traffic unless the engine understands WordPress routes and plugin semantics. ... Target plugin-specific endpoints with clean payloads: admin-ajax.php?action=..., wp-json/<namespace>/<route>, custom file handlers, shortcodes.

* This is the most generic template file in a WordPress theme · * and one of the two required files for a theme (the other being style.css). · * It is used to display a page when nothing more specific matches a query.

March 13, 2025 - File upload would be the final step (5), only after I've built relationships between posts and media uploads in payload, and weeded out any orphaned entries (we have 100s of gbs of uploads, most of which are garbage). once the migration's finished, I'll re-enable filesRequiredOnCreate ... - for step 2, I iterate over every row returned from wordpress and process them in a queue (better-queue).

Pulling all the data out of an existing system to be inserted into the Payload project is scriptable but requires custom development also. We are looking at building an import/export plugin that assists with all ETL workflows to avoid having to write custom scripts which is the currently recommended approach, this helps with the 2nd item. I don't think it would possible to write a script for the first since there are so many plugins and different versions and configurations that WordPress can have.

July 18, 2023 - WordPress offers a great volume of functionalities through plugins. However, using too many plugins, especially ones that generate dynamic content or load external resources, can increase the network payload. Each plugin may add extra CSS, JavaScript, or other assets to be loaded by the browser, resulting in a larger payload.

0 Need to forward Data from WooCommerce Webhook sent to same site Wordpress REST API custom endpoint · 1 Sending JSON Payload using Request::request_multiple()

Payload is a headless CMS built using TypeScript, Node.js and React—all of which we’re familiar with. It’s also highly customisable, which means we can create custom APIs and very flexible content models that adapt to whatever our clients need.