Contentful Composable Content Platform

I am Niketan Naidu, working at LTIM, and I am using Contentful  for our content management system and website. I have been using Contentful  for three years, and it has been excellent work. We use Contentful primarily for our website content management system, with the full website built upon the content management system powered by Contentful.

We manage all pages from A to Z. We have built a page template, and for each page we create, we generate dynamic routes in the Next.js application, retrieving data from Contentful and building all the pages. It is not limited to just a product page or landing page; it encompasses all pages of the website.

We are also using Contentful SDK for space-to-space migration as provided by Contentful's powerful CLI tools. We use this for migrating assets or entries from one space to another space easily. This is a significant advantage.

Contentful's GraphQL marketplace application is excellent and useful. We can query immediately and see the results of the collections we create. Contentful also has localization features. However, I believe the only limitation is with localization; locale-specific rules and permissions are not at the extent or level we need, so we cannot provide permissions at the locale level. This is the problem.

Here  is the scenario: we have multiple DDA groups that work on Contentful updates. We want a specific DDA group to work on specific Contentful content only, which can see, read, write, and delete on that specific locale only. We do not want other locale content of that space to be visible when we have multiple locales. Currently, we only have a limitation where the edit feature can be restricted to the locale, but we cannot restrict the read, delete, and create functions for that specific locale.

Contentful has provided custom roles and permissions, but in my opinion, it should be at a more extensive level, enabling us to restrict users at the locale level so that a user sees only the content of their specific locale. A user cannot see the content of any other locale if they are not provided the permission.

Content management is simplified, and team collaboration has improved. For workflow timing and content updates, there is some limitation in content updates, as manual work takes considerable time. However, most aspects—including content management, Contentful CLI tools, Contentful roles and permissions, and GraphQL query management—have positively impacted our operations. Website management has become very easy, and content updates to websites are straightforward. We can easily update the website content.

I wish Contentful would provide a better feature for publishing all content entries at once. Additionally, if any validation errors occur, handling them in a better way would be beneficial. Changing the state of entries for querying to the CLI tools would also be valuable. If Contentful could provide a better parameter for changed state entries, that would be excellent. Most importantly, the publishing option for publishing all changed entries at once would save considerable time.

I would recommend that roles and permissions be improved as soon as possible, as that would be a valuable feature.

I have been working for 4.5 years in my current field.

Contentful is very stable. I did not see any issues.

Scalability issues are handled by our organization's admin team. They will be in contact with the customer support team. If there are any issues, we report them to our organization's admin team, and they check with support.

We used Sitecore previously. We converted all websites to modern web technology using Next.js, so we switched to Contentful for the modern features.

Setup and pricing are handled by our organization's admin team. Currently, I do not have much information on this.

I would say time saved is the key ROI. With Contentful, we can migrate entries using the CLI and update content easily once we become habituated to it. Time was saved most of the time.

Setup cost and pricing are handled by our organization's admin team. Currently, I do not have much information on this.

Organizations can use localization if they have the same content and should watch out for that feature. They can use the CLI for easy migration in Contentful. Exploring more on Contentful GraphQL queries, Contentful SDK, and Contentful CLI is beneficial. Contentful web app is very easy to learn, and the learning curve is simple. It is an easy solution.

I would like to highlight the roles and permissions features. I would request the team to look into it and provide that feature, as it would be excellent. I provided this review a rating of 9.

I use Contentful  to manage content-heavy websites for clients, where all content related to pages is stored, such as product pages, landing pages, and the homepage.

The preview API is used heavily, which allows editors to create pages and preview them on their machines to see how content will look on the website.

Contentful  offers many features, including functioning as a headless content management system that can be integrated with any tech stack, using a CDN  to deliver content which is significantly faster than serving through a single server, and providing a UI that is very easy to use, allowing users to navigate around easily and perform their normal tasks.

The most valuable feature is the headless capacity of Contentful because Nuxt is used for the front end and Shopify  for back-end operations, so Contentful bridges that gap easily and allows content-heavy pages to be managed.

Contentful has helped serve clients better by allowing campaigns to be launched quickly and pages to be developed rapidly, enabling focus on the structure of the page while putting the content on Contentful, which reduces the time to make the page live.

Pages that previously took around a week to launch now take two to three days less, depending on the page size and complexity.

Contentful has allowed the team's work overhead to be saved, as previously there was back and forth for multiple changes requiring code deployment multiple times to see those changes. By using Contentful, content can be changed directly and seen updated on the live website, which saves around 30% of the time that would have been spent.

One thing that could be enhanced is the UI since it is currently only available in light mode and does not have a dark mode.

No issues have been found with the performance of Contentful, and many integrations have not been used with it.

I have used Contentful for around two plus years.

Contentful is very stable.

Scalability is not an issue as Contentful auto-scales and no issues have been faced regarding its scalability.

Customer support is fantastic.

Other options such as Sanity  and Brightspot were evaluated.

Contentful receives a rating of nine out of ten because there is always room for improvement, and one improvement was suggested, so in my opinion, nine is a very good rating.

The advice to give is to go through the material provided on Contentful's platform and their learning platform as well, because doing so will make Contentful's platform more cohesive, which will help to get up to speed with the product. My overall review rating for Contentful is nine out of ten.