Contentful Composable Content Platform
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Easy to Implement, Super Flexible
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility of the platform is really remarkable. From content modeling to the editor interface, you can build everything to work with your team. Their CLI tools are also really nice.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the 3rd party app integrations are a little clunky but otherwise no complaints.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it is at the center of our media business.
Great tool for content management!
What do you like best about the product?
Our team has really enjoyed the flexibility Contentful gives us in managing our content; as a non-profit without in-house developers, it has given us the freedom to keep updating our content creatively without always needing to hire a contractor. We like how easy it is to preview content in draft mode in QA. It's great to be able to add helper text for different sections so that we can quickly onboard new users. Adding content for additional languages is easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it is too easy for a user to accidentally change something - but that is probably mostly a matter of training users well & how your space is set up. We would also like to have more content types, but it is possible to purchase those.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are delivering content to a wide variety of partners through a few different tools, and having many different non-technical staff members collaborate on creating and updating that content. One big benefit has been our ability to target content to certain groups and users through Contentful, and to easily add additional languages.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great tool! If building something complicated, make sure you collaborate with developers to know how many content types you will need.
Great concept for headless implementation
What do you like best about the product?
The concept of using this in an implementation is straightforward and solves a number of use cases.
What do you dislike about the product?
It should have documentation on a number of complex custom implementations too.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This has helped to create a headless implementation of our CMS system. It helps to resolve a lot of dependencies in a tightly coupled system.
Very easy to get started with
What do you like best about the product?
Contentful is super easy to get started with and works out of the box. It also has amazing Developer Experience!
What do you dislike about the product?
Changing a content model is hard. I think that something like example content models would be helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're building a blog system using Contentful.
Contentful helped us build a scalable platform in a few weeks and it keeps growing
What do you like best about the product?
From a content mangement side, we like the ease of use of Contentful, its multilingual support and the asset management. Technically speaking, we appreciate the ability to create custom extensions, its seamless integration with Netlify, webhooks and the API documentation and structure.
What do you dislike about the product?
We find it has limited validation rules and that the paid plan is quite pricey.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Contentful as our headless CMS allowed us to choose the development stack we wanted: we chosed a Jamstack with Github, Netlify and Nuxt.js. It allows us to develop and test our website very quickly and thanks to pre-rendered pages, the website is blazing fast and consumes lot less C0².
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to build an application without risks of being technically limited in a few months or years, Contentful will provide the needed flexibility and technical performance you’re hoping for. If a functionality does not exist, you can just build it yourself. Performance of the API is also great.
The easiest and the most meaningful CMS to use for big and small projects.
What do you like best about the product?
As a Software Engineer, Contentful has been a grace to use on multiple projects with multiple use cases.
The API is straight forward and very easy to use and content structuring and linking to create dynamic and static sites is the most optimized between the varied CMSs that I have used, and it comes with a great interface for content editors and creators.
I am specifically a fan of their APP integration, which makes it so much easier to develop in certain technologies (e.g. Gatsby) and if you're using other 3rd party services for hosting or other uses.
The API is straight forward and very easy to use and content structuring and linking to create dynamic and static sites is the most optimized between the varied CMSs that I have used, and it comes with a great interface for content editors and creators.
I am specifically a fan of their APP integration, which makes it so much easier to develop in certain technologies (e.g. Gatsby) and if you're using other 3rd party services for hosting or other uses.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have honestly never run into any serious issues while using contentful in the past 3 years.
They have libraries and integrations that will fit most of your development needs
They have libraries and integrations that will fit most of your development needs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I run a non-profit organization called Bureaucrazy with a small team, and due to the nature of the services that our organization provides, we needed a solution to be able to update or content rapidly and on the fly, with a very easy to use interface, that's why we landed on Contentful.
We use contentful to structure our data, build up dynamic pages on the site and define conditional content linking.
One of the most important benefits that we have realized is using their new APP feature, which allows us to use easier and quicker to develop technologies and run content updates through their webhooks, automated deployments and run updates with a click of a button, which before considering we're a very small team was very time-consuming.
Contentful were ass well kind enough to provide our non-profit organization with a free plan to use on our site and on our upcoming Webapp
We use contentful to structure our data, build up dynamic pages on the site and define conditional content linking.
One of the most important benefits that we have realized is using their new APP feature, which allows us to use easier and quicker to develop technologies and run content updates through their webhooks, automated deployments and run updates with a click of a button, which before considering we're a very small team was very time-consuming.
Contentful were ass well kind enough to provide our non-profit organization with a free plan to use on our site and on our upcoming Webapp
Great pick for a JAMStack CMS
What do you like best about the product?
One of the more user-friendly CMS's out there. Really a joy to use and easy to understand. Create new content models and content is simple and intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing that confused me was lack of single-use type entries.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to run a marketing site.
Its just quick and meaningful to get data dynamically in your hands
What do you like best about the product?
Its content models and easy to understand content handling. It simply makes sense of how the data is arranged in a meaningful way. The image and data caching logic are also good. At the client-side, a strong code base is required to get the most out of the contentful. We were fortunate to make this happening in our project.
What do you dislike about the product?
More abstraction, markup support within the contentful and proper sorting and filtering strategy. In the content modeling, how one content model can relate to others. In terms of markup support, this was mostly observed during our project development that the markdown support library does not work as expected so we need overriding to get how it looks in the contentful preview window.
Proper sorting and filtering in terms of datasets creation time. Usually, if a huge amount of data has been added in one day. I need to go and look at every content model and can't find what's been added in that one day.
Another problem, in terms of logging the changes done on a particular record. Sometimes, 100 people change data in a day. I cannot see who has changed what and no logs or history is there in the content model or data side. There are different scenarios where we face issues, in a large team of developers and testers when they start changing, some should keep an eye on what is changing. That way we faced problems during the whole process of development.
Proper sorting and filtering in terms of datasets creation time. Usually, if a huge amount of data has been added in one day. I need to go and look at every content model and can't find what's been added in that one day.
Another problem, in terms of logging the changes done on a particular record. Sometimes, 100 people change data in a day. I cannot see who has changed what and no logs or history is there in the content model or data side. There are different scenarios where we face issues, in a large team of developers and testers when they start changing, some should keep an eye on what is changing. That way we faced problems during the whole process of development.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem of dynamic data. Mostly client-side applications want to get rid of data handling. Contentful is a great savior in this. All the configurations, data handling and quick response from the backend help client-side applications to get faster. Syncing is also good. Keeping applications up and running. However most of the time it's difficult to understand the error handling if something is changed and the client-side starts getting crashed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a very cool and fastest CMS I have ever worked with. The concept of spaces and content modeling is pretty much required in most of the organizations and there are different stakeholders that can get the benefit from the way contentful works.
Contenful is the best CMS for the modern applications
What do you like best about the product?
Contentful makes data modeling extremely easy. It takes minutes to build a database schema to create a new app. I love how I can manage all the content in one place and distribute it to all sorts of systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
While they offer a generous free plan, the pricing could get expensive pretty fast depending on your usage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are creating a content-rich application, Contentful allows us to manage content in one place and distribute to all sorts of different platform. The API calls are really fast and the documentation of each language is very well documented.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are migrating from legacy systems like Wordpress, I highly encourage you to test out headless CMS. I think Contentful is a leading expert in the market and it is extremely easy to implement.
More than just a content management system —A full API that works flawlessly!
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Contentful is that we were up and running in minutes. We needed an API to go live but didn't have the time or resources to build everything in house. The second thing that I really love is the caching system. We perform a change and it's live immediately, no need to do anything else, and we love that!
What do you dislike about the product?
For our use, it's missing the possibility to add logic to the fields. We would like to simplify the templates for the editors, so that they focus on the important fields... a little bit of logic would be great for that (if a, then do not display this field, etc).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Contentful has allowed us to go live in minutes with a rock-solid API. It would have taken us months to come up with an alternative (we developed a data collection software, and Contentful powers the surveys).
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For headless CMSs, it's hard to beat and the free plan is generous
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