Contentful

Vorteile

The headless CMS saves us time when updating sections that are displayed in multiple places across the website. The risk of forgetting to update across all the required sections is smaller.

Nachteile

The many layers of modules (I like to call it module-ception) takes some time to get used to when coming from a more basic CMS.

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Was simple to use, SEO elements were easy to stay on top of too. image optimisation was simple as well

Nachteile

Each CMS has their own pros and cons but i can't think of one significant issue

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I use Contentful to manage content for our website. Editing text and starting new templates is intuitive. Uploading images is easy. In fact, I learned HTML coding through add and editing Staff bios. Publishing and editing content is also easy although it’s not clear why un-publishing still requires you to delete content from categories/buckets even though the content isn’t live.

Nachteile

The things I like least are the tools that I didn’t know exist. I didn’t know there were collaboration tools and I think image editing is limited. The UX on the platform itself is not good and features are buried.

Vorteile

If your seeking to modernize your content strategy, Contentful should be your go-to-choice. I love how Contentful customization options and managing content for multiple platforms with on stress changed my day-to-day. Contentful provides all the right tools for your workflow to turn into an awesome workday.

Nachteile

Additionally, when the new upgrade comes out for the user interface, it's tipping the scale of things.

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I think it’s easy to get started as they have a lot of community to help you get started

Nachteile

I think their own tutorials to get started are not enough to get started, you have to look deeply to start developing there

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Vorteile

Save time and money when writing content. Contentful Platform can help your business or website save money with the right plan. It has many benefits over bulk writing, and you can use it to write content quickly with quality and quantity. The best place to create high-quality paper and editing work fast is Contentful. In addition, Contentful helps you organize content conveniently and can save time by preventing you from searching for content whenever you need to edit or add new content.

Nachteile

Contentful Platform is priced high monthly, and the free version has limited features. As a beginner, learning the material can be challenging. Contentful also has limitations on accessing content from others who wish to use it. Still, it is an excellent service for large teams or businesses that must write a lot of content quickly, easily, and well.

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I like Single Sign-On for easy and secure access of team members, It is also a great platform when you’ve got a lot of content and data for your organization and need a professional platform for categorizing your data in the shortest time. GraphsQL is great, and at last, Contentful is user-friendly and easy to understand for newbies.

Nachteile

Because a team is working on a project in a short amount of time and maybe working two or three shifts to edit the content of several people, a more professional and secure log is needed to record all events in detail.

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Vorteile

If properly set up, it's easy to find and navigate sections and areas of your site you'd like to edit.

Nachteile

You can get lost if you don't know what you're doing.

Vorteile

I love how you can reuse different components across website. You don't need to create the same component or carousel all over again if they are going to be the same on different pages. It's easy to use and assets library is also working well. We have thousands of pages in 20 languages and it's a great tool for organisation like ours.

Nachteile

I'm not a fan of customer service because once we had a severity 1 problem and their response was far from prompt. You also need a month or two of training to understand the platform, but after that, it's easy to use.

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Contentful allows us to structure our content exactly how we need it with custom content types and fields, making it adaptable for different projects

Nachteile

Pricing for premium features like advanced customizations and additional environments can get too costly.

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I like the fact that it is easy to use contentful. Within a few weeks you're easy off using the platform.

Nachteile

Certain things are hardcoded which can be annoying if you want to change things. The preview also doesn't always work properly.

Vorteile

The platform is pretty self-intuitive and easy for new users to pick up. We have a lot of SEO modules and features in the platform which allow us to perform better in Google search results and our engineers don't seem to have any issues integrating these into the platform.

Nachteile

Can be quite difficult to find certain pages in the platform. The ability to search for pages by filters like URL would be helpful

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Contentful's tools are quick and straightforward, and their technical implementation is effective and efficient. Thanks to their assistance, I needed help getting started with the program, and their ongoing support has been excellent. I may quickly and easily preview the progress of any project thanks to their streamlined UI. We've found it helpful in automating high-quality content production across multiple channels.

Nachteile

This excellent software has zero flaws and no drawbacks.

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I recently started using Contentful as my company's content management system, and I have been extremely impressed with the platform's capabilities. One of the standout features for me has been the flexible content modeling. With Contentful, it's easy to create custom content types and fields, which has been a huge help in managing our structured content. The multiple language support has also been incredibly useful, as we have a global audience and need to be able to publish content in multiple languages.In addition to these core features, I've also appreciated the ability to integrate Contentful with other tools and platforms. This has made it much easier to manage our content across different channels and to track the performance of our content. The collaboration and workflow management tools have also been very helpful in keeping our content organized and ensuring that everything is reviewed and approved before it goes live.Finally, the robust API has been a game-changer for our team. It has allowed us to build custom integrations and applications on top of the platform, which has greatly increased our efficiency and allowed us to do more with our content.

Nachteile

As a small business owner, I was initially excited to try out Contentful as our company's content management system. However, I have to admit that I've been somewhat disappointed with the platform. While it does offer a wide range of features, I've found it to be quite complex and difficult to use, especially for someone like me who is new to content management systems. The learning curve has been steep, and I've had to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to use the various features and tools.Another issue I've had with Contentful is the price. It's a premium product, and it can be expensive compared to other content management systems on the market. As a small business owner, I have to be careful with my budget, and the cost of Contentful is a significant investment.Additionally, I've found the customization options to be somewhat limited. While I understand that Contentful is designed to be a general-purpose platform, I've had a few specific needs that the platform hasn't been able to accommodate. This has been frustrating, as I would have liked to be able to tailor the platform to our company's specific needs.Finally, I've had some negative experiences with Contentful's customer support. On several occasions, I've had to wait a long time to get a response, and when I have received a response, it hasn't always been helpful. This has added to my frustration with the platform.

Vorteile

For editors and copywriters the experience was intuitive enough.
All I can recall are some complaints about the asset picker.

For developers, I loved that there's a certification exam and a curriculum.
https://www.contentful.com/help/contentful-certification/

I did the exam and that helped me structure our projects in a way that reduced development complexity – and by extension, development costs for our clients.

Other developers in our company who also took it share the same feeling.

Nachteile

The limits on how many content types you can have on a space.
https://www.contentful.com/developers/docs/technical-limits/

Unless you're running the enterprise plan, chances are your team will quickly run out of content types.
This makes working with a "component" based approach painful.

For instance, if you wish to port an existing design system on a 1:1 mapping and don't have the enterprise plan you'll quickly run out of components.

This was the case for one of our projects and it meant the development team had to prioritise which content types were actually critical enough to create – this frustrated both developers and the content team.

Vorteile

It is impossible for users to create elements that are totally out of line with the corporate design. Contentful also loads faster than many other CMS.

Nachteile

There isn't much I like about Contentful. It is impossible to copy entire pages without a lot of effort, which makes it very time-consuming to create new pages. While you can re-use existing elements, the problem is that if you change them, they are changed everywhere, and there is no way to just copy an element in order to use it as a new element (i.e., changes you make to it don't affect the element you copied).

As others have mentioned before, it sometimes takes a quarter of an hour for changes you made to appear on the preview pages, which is just painful (Wordpress is pretty much instant). But by far the biggest pain is that there is no way for the user to simply access the CSS. We have to go back to our engineering team for every little tweak we want, even if it is just the padding of an element or the alignment of a certain style of text.

Another issue I have is that it is hard to figure out where on a new page you are while you are editing it. Unlike Wordpress, where you can see the overall structure of your page elements clearly on an overview page, you can only see the rows of the page on the overview in Contentful - you have no idea what the structure inside each row looks like until you click on it. That means you're getting disorientated quite quickly as to where you need to click to edit element X of the page.

Overall, I find Contentful terrible to use. It has a few benefits, but at least from a content management user experience those don't outweigh the significant downsides at all.

Vorteile

It was convenient to get a free app. We greatly profited from moving to SaaS and headless after struggling with the operating expenses of Episerver (Optimizely DXP), which was highly costly to update and sustain owing to the PaaS service. In comparison to the WordPress option that I have used, Contentful's free edition is reasonably simple to utilize and extremely sturdy. The overall product is clean and elegant, as well as the learning curve was not too severe. It enables migrating website frameworks to a rather painless procedure.

Nachteile

In several areas, the UI appears to be tailored for coders rather than ordinary/generalist consumers and marketing personnel. For instance, that's not always feasible to see modifications as they would seem to the end customer, so I often have to rely on a feeling of what would look nice in the end. Yet none of these would deter me from adopting Contentful in the future.

Vorteile

Easy to use, updates quickly when edited. The CTA flexibility was the best.

Nachteile

The child pages and drop down menu were all intertwined or bootstrapped to Ruby and Heroku so the ability to edit those areas was more difficult

Vorteile

It has a simple user interface and a small learning curve. It provides a powerful open API integration that allows you to connect with any third party application. It makes it easy to configure our content workflow to fit today's needs. The tool also has editing options available for published content and preview of the changes made.

Nachteile

For new users navigating the pages is a bit tricky. It is necessary that they improve the pricing models and adapt them to the needs of the companies.

Vorteile

I have used contentful from past 2.8 years and it is the best CMS.We can do content modelling easily as per the project requirement and add the data in the content is also easy.Any one can learn easily.There are localisation also which helps us to do multiple localisation project data entering insertion in one project space.Also we can provide the user roles as per the need.

Nachteile

One thing which i want to highlight is when we want to copy one space to another space the locales should be same than only we can clone the data.So this should be more user friendly as sometimes we cant change the locales if we have started working in some other locale and than want to copy the data from some other space.

Vorteile

I have worked with a number of different CMS platforms but I like Contentful for its ease of use and scalability. It can help you manage large amounts of data with minimal effort. It works great for static websites as well.

Nachteile

There's a fair bit of a learning curve, but benefits outweigh time investment. I'm not a fan of the pricing plans. The lowest tier is very affordable but other options are very expensive.

Vorteile

It is truly cloud-first for a headless approach. You can build your content model and control your input with easy validation (min/max/regex) and even dependencies on other models. It is truly headless and integration with node, react, asp.net, and php have all been relatively easy. Node was definitely the easiest integration.

Nachteile

I would have said migration between environments, but they recently released a solution for that. I haven't verified it but I'm excited about it. I think the other thing is dealing with deleted fields, it makes it a bit challenging that you have to remove it from view and then delete it to make sure it won't break the existing model. I also get frustrated when I make an existing field that is required and there is no notification that the content doesn't match the new criteria.

Vorteile

being it the Headless CMS has helped out a lot

Nachteile

we would still need the software developers

Vorteile

I should clarify that I am speaking from the perspective of a developer so I can't vouch for the experiences of a content contributor. As a developer, I really appreciate being pointed in the right direction with their Gatsby starter kit and Netlify. This has been a great intro into the trend of static react based sites and I love it so far. I will try to stay focused on Contentful though. As someone very familiar with the traditional LAMP stack CMS world, I appreciate that they try to keep CMS best practices and dispense with the countless technical issues plaguing the old school approach. I have only used it for a small site though, but I am psyched to try it out with a larger project to really use it to its best potential.

Nachteile

I was going to say that it is totally painless, but there are some adaptation pains involved. If, like me, you just jump right in with a Gatsby Starter Kit, you may do some newbie things here and there. But I never really got stuck or blocked, and always learned when going back to improve something. Like I said, I haven't dug deep enough to have had a real issue. The worst negative could be that there are some cross sale situations where you may feel obliged to purchase a plugin to work with your content. I don't know if I can really fault a business on this though. Depending on your dev skills, you can always figure out a way to get your Contentful content to work without necessarily buying a shortcut from a third party.

Vorteile

Contentful comes really handy when you need to edit portions or paragraphs in your website. Besides, it supports a wide array of languages, which is a big plus when working with a multilingual team.

Nachteile

The full website is managed through Contentful, which means a lot of different pages and content listed, and at times it can get confusing retrieving a page or even a paragraph you are looking for.

Vorteile

Ease of use and seamless integration allows users to navigate the interface without much training.

Nachteile

Make sure you have a solid wifi connection to ensure quick load times, it can lag sometimes.

Vorteile

stable, friendly configuration, data structure is clear, and have api auto configuration

Nachteile

navigation is a little bit tricky, like when duplicate an entity, it lost the original entity's position, so have to go back and track the entity again

Vorteile

Contentful is a content management system solution which has a great API focus and allows us to develop our own data relationships and data structure. It provides us complete flexibility within projects and gives us the capacity to distribute to different types of platforms with less hassle. The user interface is straightforward and really simplifies the process for our backend system.

Nachteile

When used in Firefox browser, there are some occasional glitches. However, it works perfectly well in Chrome and Safari, so it’s not really a big problem. When I contacted support, they reviewed and tested it but they said it might just be a plugin issue.

Vorteile

The UI of Contentful is superb in its own right, but especially when compared to other similar CMS interfaces. Everything is laid out neatly, and it's easy to sort and edit your content. When paired with a static site generator like Gatsby, Contentful is WAY more safe, dependable, and low-maintenance than WordPress (which I'm sad to say, after being a WP dev for years, is a complete mess).

Nachteile

Modeling content can be tricky at first, especially since you can't have differing fields within a content type. But once you understand the general concept of "referencing," it becomes quite easy and even enjoyable to structure nested and/or complex data.

Nachteile

Support says it all: "we only commit to offering community support in your current subscription plan". Even when you find-out your plan does not work. Check this post if you want to know more: http://bit.ly/2dWl5by

Vorteile

Its content management API has been very helpful! Our team comprises some non-technical users, for them, it is very convenient to make changes to our organization's website's content through Contentful.

Nachteile

More extensive documentation could make the integration easier.

Vorteile

The user interface of Contentful is great in comparison to the other sites.
The user interface is easy to use.
It is very easy to locate content.
Best API capabilities.

Nachteile

I'm really satisfied with Contentful, but the interface can be improved to the best.

Vorteile

I love the ability to completely customize the content types so that the editors are only able to edit exactly what you allow them to.

Nachteile

I would love more customizable paid plans. Since I use JAMStack static site generation I don't need a ton of API calls per month, however I would love to add users, locales and per-user permissions.

Vorteile

The layout is clean. It helps us managing content in many different languages in one place.

Nachteile

It took me quite some time to figure out how Contentful works with all kind of layers in translations, products, pages and attributes. Sometimes you lose track of where you are in all those layers.

Another thing is that it sometimes takes a long time for updates to go through the publishing queue. Especially when more people are working on it at the same time.

Vorteile

The ability to flexibly model content according to what our output needs are, rather than being constrained by a pre-defined model.

The ease of adding translations.

The customer service we have received.

Nachteile

Only that the way that the pages are represented could be a little more visual when relating elements together. But it's a very minor thing.

Vorteile

Was very easy to implement and adapt to our workflow. Enables our team to work more efficiently and easily suited to our custom workflow. Very flexible tool when creating and managing content models. Easy to set up editorial workflows and a lot of helpful documentations how to do that. Love the design.

Nachteile

All good so far with the performance of the tool.

Vorteile

API.
Sync endpoint.
People.

Vorteile

It is impossible to get a straight answer before even trying this platform. The 'expert' who was supposed to contact me back couldn't answer simple questions over the phone about costs for my needs, and was completely non-technical. Then they spam you will calls and emails and still absolutely no concrete information about the features and costs. WHAT THE HELL IS A CONTENT TYPE? is it each image you upload? is it every form field on a simple contact form no mater how many times it's re-used? They give you 24 content types for 39/month and then 48 for over 800/month !!!! WTH.. for a 15 person small business, no-one is going to pay over 800/month for their company website!!

I gave up trying to get a straight answer out of them, and am looking elsewhere for a dual-language advanced website solution .

Nachteile

Terrible support. I notice also that they don't offer phone support, only email. I can only imagine how frustrating they would be in action if they're this hard to get information out of before purchase.

Vorteile

It is taking almost a minute to build a sample project. UI is simple that can create and edit your content without drowning in the ugly menus.

Nachteile

Sometimes it takes too long to publish changes that create latency time. Besides, the documentation for API structured complex and not enough.

Vorteile

I love all the following: the Infrastructure as Code that allows me to define my models through software, the SDK that allows me to load or update content via automation, the apps that allow webhook integrations such as with Gatsby, Netlify and Github. Finally, I love that it is a SaaS offering where data backups and DB upgrades are not my problem!

Nachteile

Thee free tier allows me to make two CMS systems. It would be nice if the free tier offered, say, up to five. The first paid for tier feels pricey if all I need was simply that third "not-free" CMS. It would be great if they had a "per CMS" paid tier that allowed a third, fourth, fifth CMS (etc.) at $3.95/month each...or something like that.

Vorteile

Ease of use; interconnectibility -> Netlify, Gatsby, GraphQL, etc.

Nachteile

Please re-think monetization for spaces. For small companies....

Vorteile

Easy API Integration, good search and filter with customisable columns, comments from other users, different content models rollback and version ability.

Nachteile

Custom Validation didn't allow us to cross compare fields, different user levels is only available on higher plans.

Vorteile

- Contentful is exceptionally easy to use for engineers and non-engineers alike.
- Contenful is a headless CMS, which comes with endless benefits.

Nachteile

Previewing content prior to publication is limited. It's also less flexible for the non-engineer than other Content Management Systems (though this is probably a good thing).

Vorteile

Once you get the building blocks and templates in place then anyone can make a landing page.

Nachteile

I don't have any complaints, they have met all our needs.

Vorteile

Once your projet is set up, all is easy to use and allow user to contribute without IT knowledge. All contents provided are really good for all type of projet.

Nachteile

I advice to follow some tuto to discover all functionnality because you can get easily lost at the beginning (in term of project creation). Once all is set all become easy.

Vorteile

I like how easy and quick it is to use. There are some things that are bit difficult, but for the most part its very simple and a great way to run a website.

Nachteile

There are aspects that are difficult, and sometimes hard to keep tabs on what is active and hard to back track if something does go wrong

Vorteile

I found Contentful to have strong technical quality, it was easy to get started, and had a pretty quick learning curve. We're going to be integrating it in several upcoming projects.

Nachteile

It is much better for new projects than for legacy ones, as importing prior content is very painful - there is some tooling for it, but it can still be pretty complex.

Vorteile

Contentful offers number of useful features and it's incredibly smart and simple to use.
I also appreciated the great discussion I had with one of Contentful main programmer on Github : it helped me to go way beyond my expectations for a CMS.

Nachteile

There could be one more step in pricing for small projects like the one I often deal with. I can't really find any reproach.

Vorteile

It has a good balance of cost and features. Their API is feature rich allowing us to extend Contentful and tightly integrate it with our systems.

Nachteile

There is no true support for branching and merging of content. The 'sandbox' environment is helpful, but we have had to build our own custom scripts and processes to simulate branch and merge.