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Wordpress? Why does it need to be headless though?
Basically it provides a UI and all changes are pushed to GitHub which will launch the release process back in Netlify.
Seems it might fit your requirements too.
I wouldn't be setting up a static site + headless CMS for a non-technical organization. This is basically asking for a constant headache. Just set them up on a website builder like Webflow/Framer/Ycode/Squarespace/etc that has a CMS built in.
On the other hand I worked for a small place that was spending over 250k'ish per year on website maintenance to a company that setup their headless CMS website that they sold them. They complained about it constantly but they kept paying (7 years and going when I was doing work for them which by they way they constantly tried to shortchange me). Never feel bad about taking money from a company, its just business. Set…
Buying into proprietary software and walled gardens is ridiculously common and acceptable in a business environment. That's code for "no liability if something goes wrong, minimal maintenance, and easy onboarding of new employees."
Because its so popular and been around for so long, theres tons of free themes, plugins and videos which will reduce your support burden - plus your admin could get help easily as its not something you rolled.
Other than that, decap on gitlab is easy to run for free, and will provide the admin with a ui for editing content. Astro is also great and stable for this type of thing.
Professional work above that: Sanity [4] or Hygraph [5]
To manage deploys, I have used Cleavr, which does a good job at it without being too user-unfriendly. That’s a paid service, about $6/month.
[0]: https://directus.io/
[2]: https://www.meilisearch.com/
[3]: https://directus.io/docs/guides/extensions/api-extensions/ho...
Well how are they then going to pay for their web hosting? Tell them to scram.