Contentful

Overview
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Contentful
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Contentful 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.
$489
Pricing
Contentful
Editions & Modules
Team
489/month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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Community Pulse
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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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We selected Contentful because of several reasons:
- Content management API
- 2FA
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Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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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Features
Contentful
Security
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8.0
9 Ratings
0% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.09 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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Contentful
8.1
10 Ratings
5% above category average
API8.79 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.57 Ratings
Web Content Creation
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Contentful
8.0
11 Ratings
5% above category average
WYSIWYG editor7.34 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness9.07 Ratings
Admin section8.79 Ratings
Page templates7.64 Ratings
Library of website themes7.52 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design8.26 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.510 Ratings
Form generator7.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
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Contentful
8.3
10 Ratings
12% above category average
Content taxonomy8.59 Ratings
SEO support7.78 Ratings
Bulk management7.76 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.77 Ratings
Community / comment management9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(11 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Well suited for our needs of multiple images for auto auctions from a variety of sellers. Pointing them to one platform is easier than attempting to use a variety of platforms as we were doing before (email, slack, Dropbox and Google Drive would randomly be used by a variety of employees )
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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
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  • 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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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 are less likely to go astray. We also have our own in-house programmatic template solution for managing content, but this was a previous pain point when we needed to get the dev team to do a deploy for every content change.
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Return on Investment
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  • Positive - new hires are able to get onboarded quicker with us using Contentful
  • Positive - we can customize the journey of what modules/material the user sees after a course/video/article
  • Positive - it's been an overall game changer when hiring external candidates who need extensive training
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