Contentful Reviews & Product Details

I like the ease of creating object models and the CDN performance of serving content once you entered your data. I like that you can create clones of the data quickly for testing etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The complexity of the generated json of the data model, especially for rich text content. Very confusing and optimized for Contentful internal reasons. They are lacking some basic features that are making the content model much harder to manage. A few examples:

1. You can’t embed object models directly in content without making them a shared object first. This is like trying to write a document and embed tables and info boxes, but be forced to create these as separate documents and link them to your document. This grows to a huge problem the larger your content grows.

2. The content management APIs and the content delivery APIs (the creation and editing vs serving content to end users) is slightly different, but just enough to make your code inconsistent and confusing between the two use-cases.

3. Lack of easy ability to apply permissions based data access for end users

4. Different SDKs (namely JS, Java and REST) are not unified enough in concepts.

5. Support is very slow. I had simple “how/why” questions answered months after I asked them.

6. Learning curve of the ask and rendering of content is quite steep.

7. Scheme migration between versions is problematics and required 3rd party tools to track your changes between a dev and production versions of your content object model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We find it has limited validation rules and that the paid plan is quite pricey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like most about this tool is its stability and its user-friendly design, which allows me to use this application quite easily, it allows you to edit sections of our website in a fairly simple way In addition, it increases the efficiency and collaborative work among all the members by allowing us to work in a more efficient way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

None, it seems like a very complete tool for marketing activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It allows you to add new content models very easily, it is a very intuitive and easy-to-use application aimed at beginners, in the same way it easily integrates with other modalities, including a basic text editor and its content model is really flexible, by What is characterized by being an application that helps me when automating content creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it takes too long to update the changes that are made in the preview pages, which greatly delays us in the activities that depend on these actions because there is clearly nothing left to wait for them to load and as I mentioned is a Very slow process, about 1 hour or maybe more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Contentful is super easy to get started with and works out of the box. It also has amazing Developer Experience! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Changing a content model is hard. I think that something like example content models would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The concept of using this in an implementation is straightforward and solves a number of use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It should have documentation on a number of complex custom implementations too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software was very quick to implement and get off the ground running quickly. We were demoing within the first week of use. Loads quickly, and the API is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Image uploading can be painful and requires it to be done one by one manually. Ability to export views would be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Model creation with the available wide variety of field types is great.

The basic Markdown text field editor covers lots of use cases.

Resizing images by just adding optional query parameters to the URL is magic.

The content model is very flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Contentful content model is flexible, I'd even say too flexible for a simple paged website. It takes a while to grasp the Contentful-way of thinking about content. Not being able to categorize Models hurts in discoverability and creates a mess that can only be salvaged by namespacing them (e.g. "Page - Home ", "Page - About ") and then filtering ("Save as view" helps a lot here).

It doesn't seem as easy to edit for laypeople as say WordPress, but I can't back that up.

Multilanguage editing view could be improved I feel, displaying all languages at once can be overwhelming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We successfully migrated from word press to Contentful. I like how easy to use it is for our marketing department to make updates to our website. It is seamless and requires no additional deployments for copy/image changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a smaller business, there is no middle tier to using Contentful. You either use the free version, or pay for large scale enterprise use, which is too much. It would be helpful if there was a middle solution to allow for expanded use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Contentful is very easy to use and understand, even if you have never used it before. It gives the ability to customize and save templates, so every simple and specific action can be done in just a couple of minutes. Besides, it has a high level of flexibility, so you can structure your data in any way you want and it is a secured platform, counting with a very reliable system of verification and control of input entries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To be honest, I have never encountered an issue with Contentful. Maybe it’s because I use it only for some basic activities, which are done quickly by using the templates. However, some of my colleagues have told me its biggest issue has to do with integration, because it doesn’t support many solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like it a lot because it is an excellent way to manage a website giving users flexibility and an extremely simple interface. to modify the content by adding text or images to personalized taste and thus give a better identity to the site Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing is that there is no present support to support with the use of the tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Contentful has such a great API and content modeling system. Everything feels seamless and smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The API docs could be improved. Also, the rich text editor could have slightly more options like text alignment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Compared to its competitors, Contentful has an extremely intuitive design, making it extremely easy to deploy to deploy a CMS environment/service in an instant. Contentful has extensive API integrations and support. It's design has lots of flexibility in-mind, making it a really good candidate for many Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Contentful is expensive. A bit more expensive than any of its competitors, and it is tough to encourage early-stage companies/startups to use services like this, despite them being able to move forward products forward extremely quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cuando empecé a trabajar en Iberia, un compañero que trabaja para el sector de marketing de la empresa me dio permiso para utilizar la api que ellos utilizaban y estuve probando la aplicación en proyectos personales de páginas web. Me gustó mucho lo intuitiva que es en comparación a otras aplicaciones CMS. La facilidad que te da a la hora de moldear de una manera más simple la imagen de tu contenido online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quizás para grandes eventos dependiendo del plan de pago que tengas se pueden quedar cortas las peticiones por segundo o por hora que tiene de limite la content preview api si tu empresa no lo tiene en cuenta. Pero claro esto se puede arreglar cogiendo un plan que abarque siempre más de lo que esperas de base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, this has made managing my content a lot easier. I am just tech savy enough to use this software, if i'm being honest. With some internet searching, and some high quality graphics. my website is looking a lot sharper and I am able to deliver much better customer experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel like it is hard for me and my cofounder to stay communicated on what we are changing and how to control our variations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Straightforward interface that is easy for most any team member to use when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Markdown text is difficult to read when trying to edit within the GUI. Not awful, but can be tiresome after awhile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is to create any content just using drag-drop feature and easy text editing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not the best tool to make an integration with Cloud systems, such as AWS or Salesforce. It requires additional tools for the integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very clear and straightforward. At first I didn’t know what an API is, but now I’m a pro at delivering content to all of my devices, such as my iPhone, which is what I am using now, and my Windows computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup process was a bit tedious and hard for me to understand. I wasn’t sure about where the app/software was on my devices once I installed it. I had to Google my issue to solve it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software was very quick to implement and get off the ground running quickly. We were demoing within the first week of use. The cloud-based platform is crucial to having our team members access and publish remotely. Loads quickly, and the API is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Image uploading can be painful and requires it to be done one by one manually. Home page could be more useful, but it's a minor ocmplaint Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Highly modular and flexible fields

Lightweight, easily parsed and cross-platform markup language.

Any kind of content template can be created Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing, it even has a great free plan option, only downside is that it will show their logo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The way to use this infrastructure to build a successful business plan for any company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The simple graphic of the website but is not a problem basically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Contentful helped us bridge the gap between developers and our marketing team ( the content developers). Our car pool app, PoolY, has recently seen major success and increase in the number of active users recently so Contentful's pay as you go payment plan has been very profitable for us when we wanted to scale up.

We saved so much time and money because we didn't have to write code and create our own data servers for our website. Contentful's API readily integrated with our website and apps' code and we were up and running in a matter of months. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it takes a long time for the changes we make in the backend to show up on our live website. This makes the maintenance period painfully long and creates long periods of time when users cannot access our website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Sandbox environments and CLI help us test new data seamlessly without any additional setup, making us more sure for production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A lack of easier encryption and security integration makes passing sensitive data more difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Interface is easy, it's very flexible so you can customise it fully to best meet your requirements. Its also great at being able to create a whole range of content templates. Real-time editing is great when there are multiple users working on the same piece of content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The image/file area is quite clunky. If you're not a developer it can be quite difficult to customise. Because it's a headless CMS its also difficult to see how the content will be displayed in live. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.