How to connect to a Headless CMS platform

Connect your TeleportHQ project to one of several headless content management systems to enable the creation of dynamic websites.

Integrating a headless CMS into your project allows you to pull data from the CMS and bind it to elements in your project. This makes it much easier to scale content heavy websites.

Once a connection is established, TeleportHQ will automatically pull existing and newly added data from the CMS. This makes it easier to set up and scale content heavy websites.

Supported CMS platforms
How to connect to a headless CMS
Syncing the CMS
Disconnecting the CMS

Supported CMS platforms

The headless CMS platforms that we support connection with at the moment are:

Strapi	Contentful	Caisy	Flotiq	Wordpress - limited capacity

How to connect to a headless CMS

To connect to one of these platforms, in your project:

Go to the Left panel -> CMS Integration tab
Select the CMS platform you want to connect to
Add the necessary credentials
Click Connect
Choose the collections you want to import from the CMS

Once you are connected, TeleportHQ will fetch the data from your instance and make it available to use in your project. Additionally, special collections pages will be automatically generated for you to use.

Data is retrieved in the form of collections. A collection can have one or more items. An item can have one or more properties.

Where to find the connection credentials for the CMS platforms

Each supported platform requires credentials that are unique. Check out these video tutorials to find the credentials for each supported headless CMS platform.

Strapi tutorial	Contentful tutorial	Casiy tutorial	Flotiq tutorial	Wordpress tutorial

Syncing the CMS

Adding newly created collections from the CMS to the project will require that you synchronize with the selected content management system.

To sync the project with the CMS:

Go to the Left panel -> CMS Integration tab
Click on the “⋮” context menu
Select Sync Content Types

Disconnecting the CMS

To disconnect the CMS from your project:

Go to the Left panel -> CMS Integration tab
Click on the “⋮” context menu
Select Disconnect CMS
Reload the project

Updated on: 28/03/2025