Rebuilding CrowdSec’s Website with Next.js and Headless WordPress.

CrowdSec is a collaborative cybersecurity platform built around crowd-powered threat intelligence and an open-source security engine. Their marketing website needed to support a growing product story, advanced SEO requirements, and a higher bar for speed and maintainability.

The existing Webflow setup had become difficult to govern. Since many users could freely edit pages and styles, the site was drifting away from the approved design system. Layouts became inconsistent, reusable patterns broke down, and every new page carried the risk of visual misalignment.

Codalent rebuilt the site using Next.js and headless WordPress. The result was a coded frontend with a proper component system, paired with a CMS experience that still let the CrowdSec marketing team create and manage content without depending on developers for everyday updates.

We implemented Flexible Layouts in WordPress using ACF. Each editable block in WordPress mapped to a corresponding React component in the Next.js codebase.

This gave CrowdSec’s marketing team a library of approved components they could use to assemble landing pages, product pages, and campaign pages. They could edit the fields that were meant to be editable, while spacing, layout, responsiveness, and visual styling stayed locked inside the coded design system.

The frontend was built in Next.js to improve performance, scalability, and developer control. WordPress was used in headless mode, giving the marketing team a familiar editorial interface while keeping the public website fast and structured.

At build time, content and flexible layouts from WordPress were pulled into the Next.js application and rendered as production-ready pages. This reduced the need for developers to manually build routine landing pages while still preserving code quality and brand consistency.

CrowdSec provided the new website design, and Codalent translated it into a reusable frontend system. Instead of recreating one-off pages, we built the design as a set of structured components that could scale across the site.

This helped keep visual consistency intact as the website grew. Marketing could move quickly, but every page still inherited the same design rules, responsive behavior, and production standards.

The move from Webflow to Next.js gave CrowdSec more control over technical SEO, page performance, metadata, and structured schema. The new platform was designed to support richer SEO implementation and make it easier to customize schema for different page types.

The architecture also gave CrowdSec a stronger foundation for LLM visibility, with more control over structured content, reusable page patterns, and how information is exposed across the site.