Contentful Reviews

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

being it the Headless CMS has helped out a lot

we would still need the software developers

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

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

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

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