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    Contentful

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AContentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.

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    Contentful
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $300
    per month
    Community
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom
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    Pricing Offerings
    Contentful
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Contentful
    Considered Both Products
    Contentful
    Chose Contentful
    I used DatoCMS and in a nutshell, Contentful is more mature in terms of tooling and documentation.
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    Better, easier, mostly cheaper.
    Incentivized
    Chose Contentful
    Webflow is stronger in terms of being a WYSIWYG platform. Contentful however is easier for us to integrate with our many other services that need to be orchestrated by a single application, which we accomplish by creating and referencing Contentful components and entries. Webflo…
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    Chose Contentful
    Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery.
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    Didn't use other products
    Incentivized
    Chose Contentful
    Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution
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    Chose Contentful
    In the past we've used WordPress to manage documentation content. WordPress was more flexible than Contentful but also prone to inconsistencies and we ended having a lot of hacks to accomplish various WordPress tricks. With Contentful there's less ambiguity so content producers …
    Incentivized
    Chose Contentful
    Contentful offers a great deal of features for a relatively low price. This is what ended up persuading us to purchase it. We also gathered that this was one of the more well-rated products out there, which was encouraging. It definitely stacks up well against its competitors.
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    Chose Contentful
    Very similar to WordPress, but has more organizational properties than square space.
    Incentivized
    Chose Contentful
    For custom solutions, Contentful blows every other CMS I've used out of the water. Unlike WordPress, there's no clutter to wade through, and you can simply build the infrastructure you need. It's more secure by far, and works seamlessly with modern frontend technologies, like …
    Incentivized
    Chose Contentful
    Contentful was the most user-friendly platform that everyone in our company could understand. It doesn't have the integrations that WordPress does, but it was easier for everyone in our organization to use. We've also seen good ranking and traffic from the pages created in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Contentful
    Contentful is easy and fast and cheap. I went from zero experience to loading data out of my contentful space in about an hour or more. The cost is very reasonable and compared to options like CloudCMS are a fraction of the cost. The benefit is that with a lower cost entry …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Contentful
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Contentful
    Feature
    Contentful
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Role-based user permissions8.510 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Contentful
    Feature
    Contentful
    9.5
    12 Ratings
    20% above category average
    API9.311 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.79 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Contentful
    Feature
    Contentful
    7.8
    13 Ratings
    1% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.34 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness9.58 Ratings
    Admin section9.311 Ratings
    Page templates7.64 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.52 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design4.57 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.312 Ratings
    Form generator7.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Contentful
    Feature
    Contentful
    9.4
    12 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Content taxonomy10.011 Ratings
    SEO support10.09 Ratings
    Bulk management9.08 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions9.08 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.01 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Contentful
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Contentful
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Contentful
    It's a great all rounder for content projects. It's easy in the basics and powerful in the complex, data heavy scenarios. Extending the platform is straightforward and the SDK gives you everything you need. If you have many many varying content types , it gets expensive and perhaps not the best choice .
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    Pros
    Contentful
    • Flexible. This CMS can be easily extended and provide access to dynamic content
    • Simple. The WYSWG is very easy to work with and identifying pages and content in the system is fairly easy
    • Clean Interface. The interface is clean and uncluttered keeping focus on the content and not other factors.
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    Cons
    Contentful
    • Contentful uses "references" to allow you to build very modular content. If I have a "slider" content type, I can create a "slide" content type which references a "button" content type, and so forth. This works well, but I occasionally wish there was a better solution for one-off content, like a settings page. Currently, this is done for creating an entire content type called "settings" with a single entry. Not a big deal, but not ideal, either.
    • There are a few quirks with GatsbyJS integration, etc, but these issues are being fixed and improved upon very quickly.
    • A minor gripe, but Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry. Entries with many fields are somewhat tiresome to scroll through.
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    Usability
    Contentful
    It is a very easy to use and configure application. I find that it is on the user to manage the content after the models have been created, yet I still do not encounter issues finding or creating new components for our site. It is easy to set up and easy to navigate.
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    Contentful
    Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery
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    Return on Investment
    Contentful
    • Contentful has saved us valuable development time that was previously spent doing deploys for minor content updates.
    • Contentful has helped us maintain consistent documentation, reducing time needed to review for consistency.
    • Can't say we've really experienced any negative ROI impacts from using Contentful, but we've run into some limitations in adding too many content models and the next pricing tier is substantially more expensive.
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