Frontity
We have been crafting open source software for WordPress for many years now but the whole idea of this project came up in late 2017, when we started working with big Spanish WordPress publishers who wanted to improve the performance of their mobile sites. Despite their best efforts, their WordPress sites on mobile devices were slow and sluggish. We got down to work and developed a mobile WordPress theme for them, called Frontity PRO. Our goal: to make it as performant as possible while delivering a remarkable user experience. To achieve that, we built an internal React framework which used the REST API to fetch the content of their WordPress sites, and spent the whole year optimizing it. We faced a lot of challenges and realized that combining WordPress and React wasn’t easy. But at the end, the theme was a success: it was used by more than 20 million readers and proven ideal for building engaging and modern frontend experiences. In 2019 we decided to use all that knowledge and lessons learnt to launch an open source framework, so anyone who wants to use WordPress as a headless CMS with a React frontend could benefit. We believe that WordPress and React are destined to live together and are committed to helping it happen.
We have been crafting open source software for WordPress for many years now but the whole idea of this project came up in late 2017, when we started working with big Spanish WordPress publishers who wanted to improve the performance of their mobile sites. Despite their best efforts, their WordPress sites on mobile devices were slow and sluggish. We got down to work and developed a mobile WordPress theme for them, called Frontity PRO. Our goal: to make it as performant as possible while delivering a remarkable user experience. To achieve that, we built an internal React framework which used the REST API to fetch the content of their WordPress sites, and spent the whole year optimizing it. We faced a lot of challenges and realized that combining WordPress and React wasn’t easy. But at the end, the theme was a success: it was used by more than 20 million readers and proven ideal for building engaging and modern frontend experiences. In 2019 we decided to use all that knowledge and lessons learnt to launch an open source framework, so anyone who wants to use WordPress as a headless CMS with a React frontend could benefit. We believe that WordPress and React are destined to live together and are committed to helping it happen.
Frontity has raised $1.0M across 1 round. Full funding history, investors, and team are detailed below.
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