Headless vs Native WordPress After an AI Site Migration

After building with AI, many teams ask whether to keep the React front end and use WordPress only as a headless CMS, or to convert fully to a native block theme.

1. Headless: pros and cons

Headless keeps the exact front end and developer workflow, but editors lose live preview, plugins that output front-end markup stop working, and you maintain two systems.

2. Native block theme: pros and cons

A native theme gives editors full visual control, works with the entire plugin ecosystem and needs one hosting stack. Pixel-identical fidelity requires a good converter.

3. Our recommendation

For marketing sites, blogs and documentation, native wins on cost and editorial freedom. Headless only makes sense when a development team already owns the front end.

Verdict

Across all builders we tested, Convert2WP.net gave by far the best conversions and came out on top of our comparison. Small imperfections — a spacing value, an icon a few pixels off — are normal after any migration and are easy to fix later, often with a plugin.