Contentful Reviews: 4.3/5 — Solid Choice

Contentful is a really nice headless CMS which gives an easy start, but supports you also when you are growing. The Rest based integration into your frontend works well and the SDKs which are provided make it even easier with the integration. Even users which haven't used a CMS before were really easy to onboard and it was easy to integrate also customized previews.

Contentful provides a nice branch functionality for changes within the structure of your CMS. And allows to merge them with each other. Unfortunately something like that doesn't exists for the content itself. Therefore I would wish an easier way to release content to production. The release feature improves this however already a lot.

As a non profit skiing club we are offering to our members and customers skiing lessons and events in a non profit manner. Contentful helps us thereby to keep our webpage always up-to-date in an easy manner and allows several volunteers to contribute to it.

- It has a large number of functions to enrich text (bold, italic...). - It allows adding new fields to already functional structures as well as modifying existing ones quickly and efficiently. - It allows monitoring the existing links between the different content created, being able to understand at a glance the consequences of possible content modifications. - It offers a wide variety of filters that make it easy to locate specific content. - It is user-friendly for users with basic experience in CMS platforms, with a smooth learning curve and key functionalities at the click of a button.

- If the text entered in certain fields contains remains of any previous format, the text is not interpreted correctly. If this problem were solved, hours of revision would be saved. - It could incorporate the use of AI for translations so that the user only has to fill the inputs in one language and the rest of the languages are filled in automatically.

I can have all the content centralized and available for different outputs.

We picked Contenful over other headless CMS for a number of reasons, flexibility and integration options being the main ones. We had to cater for a very specific scenario presenting complexity around single sign on, multi-tennanted data architecture and integration with other data APIs, all with the goal of allowing the final users to handle all of their web and mobile contents from one place. That's where Contenful and it's framework(s) really shine!

Pricing model could be improved in order to allow access to the full functionality during development stage without impacting the financial side too much, especially for startups or prototype-stage projects.

Providing one unified place where customers of our platform can login and manage all aspects of their content and sales lifecycle, in a seamlessly integrated workflow and UI.

As someone who is not able to code, I enjoy being able to leverage standard templates through Contentful to publish content quickly and efficiently. I typically use contentful to publish blogs, product updates, webinar registration pages, documents, and more - all without the incremental help of the already extremely busy web team that supports the marketing org.

Although Contentful continues to improve, I desire more standardized templates that I can use to create new web pages in an agile manner. I also desire the ability to change text and images on existing webpages without affecting the structure of the layout.

Contentful makes it easy for non--technical users to publish content to the web using standardized templates. As a result, I, the user benefit from the ability to publish content to the web without the help of the web team.

Professionally I must add that the tool is quite necessary for operations in terms of content management in a complete way, I like it mainly because I do not consider it a difficult tool to use or expensive, its functions allow you to create a more specific content model of ours. brand as well as being precise and punctual when giving some type of message and that it captures the attention of our clients, allows us to create tickets at our convenience and be more customizable

In general, I have not presented any option that requires this system or that I consider does not work well, it is easy to understand it, so it is much easier for a professional to work with it.

When we talked about having a system that would improve operations, the need arose to have a program that would allow content to be shared quickly and it is something that this system has allowed in recent years, as well as how to distribute it quickly.

Super clean and fast interface. Easy to build content types and content models. Fantastic community/free plan that helps get started.

some internal search capabilities are a little clunky

Headless cms which allows easy content editing and addition, super fast website and improvements in Core VItals and Google rankings

I like how Contentful forces you to think about the way the content is structured. You need to create a Content Model for each different piece of content. For example, we built a website that is heavily based on code samples. We have created a CodeSample object, which contains one or more CodeBlock objects. A CodeBlock is written in a certain ProgrammingLanguage, and that ProgrammingLanguage is available on a certain Platform. This setup allowed us to write multi-platform code samples in a structured way. Our team also liked that Contentful comes with a GraphQL API to retrieve content in any way you can think of. Plus, we saved time by using the Typescript client library in our project. It also helped us a lot that the features of Contentful are documented extensively.

When we started using Contentful, there was no support for tables. This was a big downside for us, as we heavily used tables in our old website. You had to create your UI extension to create tables. In April 2022 we were delighted to read that Contentful now supported Tables in Rich Text. When you have a lot of content, finding the exact piece of content you need to edit can become difficult. It helps to filter based on Content Model and to write good internal names for your content pieces. You often need to click through multiple levels of content to reach the piece you are looking for. Each level overlays the other, once you have 5+ levels it becomes challenging to remember each underlaying layer in the editor.

Contentful helped us to structure our content, and is now helping us to keep our website accessible because we have full control over the data which needs to be entered. For example, we have made it opt-out to write an alt-text for each image, instead of opt-in like most Content Management Systems.

- The ease of use; - It is very unlikely to experience a crash, freeze or some unknown error while using Contentful; - Modifying an existing article or writing and publishing a new one is very easy; - The possibility of sending pushes (notificiations) to mobile devices; - More stable compared to other content managers; - Working with the different versions is excellent as well;

- Uploading and editing the details (title, description, link, alt attribute etc.) of an image is not so straightforward and probably requires too many clicks - It would be helpful if the image workflow process were redesigned.

- Trying to edit an already published article is much easier with Contentful; - Sending a mobile notification (push) only to users in a particular geographical area; - Recovering older versions of an article;

Contentful guarantees that amateurs don't need to stress over overseeing and redoing content. It is adaptable. Reproducing the structures has never been an issue with Contentful. It is a cloud-based CMS and has a solid content tool.

Taking everything into account, it doesn't offer palatable channels. It is costly for presenting functionalities. More updates should be made to meet the contenders. Also, a public guide ought to be broadcast for impending highlights in the deliveries that are to be made. Recommendations:

Contentful brings to the table a demonstrated connection point that is natural and easy to understand for each client, in any event, for those people who do not have experience with creating sites. It requires no kind of coding. It permits different groups to team up with one another on a specific undertaking/task.

Lets our developers and product teams work seamlessly and efficiently together, which frees both up to do what they do best. Also help integrate our marketing efforts creating alignment across the organization

no issues for us so far, would have to defer to our team leads to give ideas on what they would like to see in terms of new features or functionalities. Anything which creates more alignment and visibility on what each part of the org is doing is good

Aligning engineering, product and marketing teams so don't need to duplicate efforts across organization and everyone knows where and how their pieces fits together

Contentful is very flexible and has a great ecosystem of quality apps and a massive community of developers supporting it. For content managers, it's the best content editing experience for enterprise platforms on the market.

Very little, actually. The product team is very open about its roadmap and involves customers in early access programs to ensure the solution meets their needs. The entry-level plan is perhaps a bit limited if you're looking to get started with headless, MACH-based solutions.

Managing a multilocal, multilingual enterprise platform with a small and agile team. Launching new campaigns, uploading or modifying content, distributing it across channels, and making your platform work harder for the brand are straightforward. The API-first approach also enables a lot of integrations with best-in-class solutions.

Contentfull makes landing page creation quick and easy. Anyone on a marketing team can build a beautiful page in minutes

The only thing that can be a problem with Contentfull is that a modification on a block can lead to changes on other pages. So you have to be very careful!

My team is autonomous in building web pages. No one needs technical knowledge

easy to use numerous possibilities easy to keep an overview of what is published and what not fast from different places in the world

you need your developers to program all features that you need no tree structure

easy to access for our global team - cloud hosting re-use content in multiple pages

It has an intuitive user interface, quite possibly the easiest to use I have seen from a headless CMS. Engineers that are new to it seem to take to it quickly because of the comprehensive documentation.

Pricing is a bit high at the lowest non-free tier, especially for early stage companies that want the robustness of the platform but can't afford several hundred dollars per month.

It gives us a flexible place to manage a diverse array of content - and easy ways of tagging, classifying, and cataloging it. It saves a lot of time when making changes on-the-fly.

Contentful as a CMS is pretty great, but the best feature was the ability to integrate into so many things easily. There's a plugin for Contentful everywhere we needed.

When data gets stale, updating thousands of localized pieces of content can be challenging.

Contentful let us localize and organize content.

Ability to track the analytics in real-time, and the speed of the media uploads. It's extremely important during active weather.

the tags are a little clunky to use, and the interface could use a little work.

A way to see engagement across the myriad of our platforms.

We as an NGO have the problem to find great software to build our app and have it at an affordable price. Contentful offers all functionalities we need for our basic application and is highly customizable.

It is a little tougher in the beginning to learn everything you need to know about the tool. But when you come from a little CMS experience, you will get along quite quickly

Contentful offers the chance to build custom datamodels, so we can structure our content and sites in a way it is tailored for our need. That is the biggest upside.

It´s an easy tool to help you create and/or modify websites. The best feature in my opinion? the autosave, you can count on Contentful to have your back if anything happens as all your work will be there where you left it. It has a friendly interface that allows you to work on the platform even if you´re new to it (I find it to be intuitive). Apiece of advice: Make sure to publish changes before publishing ;)

Sometimes things are "hidden" in the pages e.g you need to modify a specific section within the page, you´ll have to click several times in a section before you find it and you need to pay attention to what you´re modifying as it is really easy to make changes that will reflect in other linked pages.

Accelerating the webpage creation without stealing time from the developers for creating and updating pages for resources/assets as this allows us to do it via self-service.

I've used many CMS before and Contentful is one of the best. We have a very complex content production process with many global sites and locales and Contentful handles it all very well. Also seems to be easy for our developers to build on top of. As a Content Marketer myself, it allows my team to produce a variety of content and is reliable.

I'd like to be able to view more than 40 entries on a single page to have an easier view of a lot of content on one page. Also the ability to export to a CSV a list of entries by their URL so we can have a list of articles/entries directly from Contentful.

Contentful helps solve the issue of producing content a global scale with a distributed team. It also helps validate checks within content, and allow developers to build on the platform to customize to our needs.

The ability to support multiple locales in a modern framework, without impacting performance, and just as importantly streamlining our translators' workflow.

We haven't come across any dislikes yet.

Contentful is helping us to separate the data from the presentation layer, and scaling locale support our museum exhibits, and user stories without sacrificing performance or ease of use.

Contentful's platform has allowed us to easily create and modify content structures for our growing business. Contentful has been well received by our developers and content publishing teams alike. The addition of App Frameworks has been valuable for extending the default input fields and handling custom JSON data structures.

Contentful's terminology can be confusing to new users. A guide that explains the relationships between Organizations, Spaces, Roles, etc would be helpful. Additionally, the platform could benefit from a better mobile content publishing experience.

Publishing content through Contentful enables us to connect various digital products to a single content source. As our business grew, so did the platforms we needed to support. A headless product like Contentful allowed us to connect any instance to a single content source, and improved our publishing workflow.

Best cloud-based content management framework. More straightforward keeping up with of items with sort of organization spaces conditions. Create straightforward by showing every one of the pages in a solitary table view

Order show of fields when you need to plunge into the keep going kid field. No honor in refreshing the components in the rich word processor. Building the application requires a long time to make the blueprint and bootstrapping the data. Inaccessibility of channel usefulness to sift through the unused resources. Needs a ton of instances of the prescribed utilize Contentful with gatsby.

We are keeping up with the items on the cloud. Simple see of the changes. Gives showcasing group great adaptability. Great information organizing design with the Richtext supervisor. Keeping up with every one of the resources in the cloud.

I really like the developer experience, on the community slack channel especially, anyone who get's stuck can ask for help.

Lack of documentation in certain areas like the app framework in the past

Providing an excellent platform as a headless CMS solution, A lot of our clients are seeing it as a great alternative to Drupal. For example: Powering things like digital touch screen displays and advertisting boards inside gyms.

Compose functionality Releases Page View SEO implementation Rich Text Editor Avif/Webp Image Support

Poor filtering Costlier for composing functionality Not much provided best practices code examples Not much support of the deployment of App framework Not able to update their UI components from Storybook

I was managing all the contents in the cloud. Faster build. SEO handling Asset Management without worrying about the underlying storage Deployment slots

It is user friendly and pretty straightforward

It would be nice if the articles could be filtered by languages

By using this tool, we can edit content at our will in a most efficient way

The user face is super friendly for a complete beginner like me

Insert pics/other elements is not super convinient

no problem

Easy interface Great to collaborate Integration with smartling for translations is great

need more best practices around naming conventions and setup

lots of collaborators reduced dev resources for more dynamic content

It's intuitive and easy to use. I like also being able to see the final version in preview.

I would like if the time and date would update automatically.

It helps me publish articles and update it when needed.

Best cloud-based content management system. Easier maintaining of contents with kind of deployment slots environments. Compose makes our life easier by displaying all the pages in a single table view

Hierarchy display of fields when you want to dive into the last child field.No privilege on updating the elements in the rich text editor. Building the app takes a while to make the schema and bootstrapping the info. Unavailability of filter functionality to filter out the unused assets. Needs a lot of examples of the best practices on how to use Contentful with gatsby.

We are maintaining the contents on the cloud. Easy preview of the changes. Provides marketing team good flexibility. Good data structuring format with the Richtext editor. Maintaining all the assets in the cloud.

I like being able to control, manage and play with the display of the menu and its different sub-categories. The integration with Shopify and Algolia makes it possible to work with a common database and simplifies the work process.

It's hard to think of a flaw in the tool. If there's one thing I can think of, it's that as a precautionary measure, in my team, we avoid logging into the platform and making changes at the same time to prevent version errors.

It's mainly about aesthetics and menu design. It is adding banners here and there on the site. It allows us to gain fluidity and the immediacy of changes, and the ability to see the different versions that have been created as changes are made makes it a very reliable tool.