Contentful Composable Content Platform
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An easy to setup and use CMS
What do you like best about the product?
The admin interface is fairly easy to use and understand. It's also well featured and easy to bulk do some tasks. It's great that you can create multiple spaces so that you can have test space for testing data easily and it's easy to switch between. The documentation for using the API is fairly accurate which is helpful for engineers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their API rate limits are on the low side particularly for the Content Management endpoint. When running a bulk update via their API, we have to throttle the rate quite a bit. I'm not sure if that's more because we are on a cheaper plan though. The admin interface can get a bit cumbersome to use particularly when editing nested referenced objects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A fast delivery and easy storage of content that can be managed by Marketing but be defined by Engineering if need be.
Useful GUI for a web site data model
What do you like best about the product?
Straightforward interface that is easy for most any team member to use when needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
Markdown text is difficult to read when trying to edit within the GUI. Not awful, but can be tiresome after awhile.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Contentful to house our database model and objects. It stores our content, easily delivers info to JSON files, and hooks into S3. Pretty simple to make updates, but, for the complexity of our web app, we have to do a lot of backend work that, often, needs a person to go through and update.
However, we developed an API that syncs content from 3rd party documents that now updates our Contentful instance when content areas are unequal. Definitely useful in that way.
TLDR: Contenful is simple for most end users to get the basics, advanced for developers to use for data models, and delivers data to JSON and servers quickly and efficiently.
However, we developed an API that syncs content from 3rd party documents that now updates our Contentful instance when content areas are unequal. Definitely useful in that way.
TLDR: Contenful is simple for most end users to get the basics, advanced for developers to use for data models, and delivers data to JSON and servers quickly and efficiently.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Contentful is great if you have what seems to be a special case for data management relative to a web app. We're able to implement any programming language, and that would be a pain with some other CMS options. Our data is intricate and the web app is only used by about 350 users per month, so we'll see how it does @ scale.
Great product that has revolutionised our website
What do you like best about the product?
Contentful is super flexible from a development aspect, however it is still super simple from the standard content user. The roles and users features are really powerful. We've been able to only show the relevant content types to the relevant users which has streamlined a lot of our previous web processes.
Being able to create your own content types from the ground up has really revolutionised how we approach managing our content.
Being able to create your own content types from the ground up has really revolutionised how we approach managing our content.
What do you dislike about the product?
We haven't found a way to create a streamlined contentful development/staging environment. There are options of having multiple spaces but then that would cause adding content twice. There is a preview API however we haven't had a lot of success with it with our current tech stack. However as Contentful is so flexible it is probably more a reflection on us not being able to work out a solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our previous CMS was incredibly bulky and slow. By switching to a the Contentful static site JAM stack we were able to dramatically reduce page load times, increase our conversion rates and save a lot of money on licensing and running costs associated with the previous website.
The previous CMS was written in a proprietary language which made finding people to work on it was very difficult. The flexibility of Contentful has made it easy for us to bring our website in line with the rest of the languages used within the organisation and made it very easy for developers to work on it.
The previous CMS was written in a proprietary language which made finding people to work on it was very difficult. The flexibility of Contentful has made it easy for us to bring our website in line with the rest of the languages used within the organisation and made it very easy for developers to work on it.
Contentful is the best way to distribute your content across all systems
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it is to use their api and create content model with such ease. Their UI/UX is amazing and it saves us so much time.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't really have anything that I dislike about Contentful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a lot of content that needs to be distributed into multiple platforms. Contentful's API allow us to fetch data with their API through all sorts of platform.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are considering distributing content to multiple sources, Contentful is a must service to have.
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