Contentful

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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).

Inconvénients

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

More extensive documentation could make the integration easier.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

All good so far with the performance of the tool.

Avantages

API.
Sync endpoint.
People.

Avantages

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 .

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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!

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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).

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

First, let me say I am not a web developer. With that said, Contentful makes me feel like one, as it allows me to create new pages for my company website easily, without infringing our standardized UI and UX.

The biggest benefit of Contentful for my team is that it has allowed our web developer to focus on larger initiatives, while handing the power to create high-quality, visually-appealing web pages. He created the parameters, effects, buttons, etc inside Contentful, and now it's a sandbox my team can use to create new pages without bugging him. This saves a tremendous amount of time, and multiplies our effectiveness as a team. If we need a new landing page for an event, we can do that all on our own.

Inconvénients

The only negative I can think about with Contentful is the learning curve for the team. Because it is a sandbox type environment, it may take a few meetings for everyone to get on the same page with what can and cannot be done.

That said, it makes our lives so much easier now that we have it.

Avantages

I like how easy it is to update content using Contentful. The features are super intuitive and the interface is user-friendly for beginners. Little coding experience is required compared to other platforms.

Inconvénients

The preview feature is a little limited, so it's sometimes difficult to see what a page will look like before publishing.

Avantages

Contentful made it really easy to spin up the CMS backend for our mobile app and website for our support staff.

Inconvénients

The product was different that what our product team had worked with before so it took some time to understand all of Contentful's functionality

Avantages

Contentful makes it so easy to localize content and to have a fallback when a translation doesn't exist. We're using this extensively to globalize our content and it's fantastic.

Inconvénients

It would be helpful if Contentful provided a means of accessing rendered pages through a proxy. We had to stand up a separate application for this functionality.

Avantages

Contentful is a fantastic tool for writing and managing content. It makes it easy to edit content dynamically. We used it to populate copy and graphics for a Facebook-based chatbot. The interface is intuitive and quick. 5 stars!

Inconvénients

Nothing. It's tremendous. Takes a bit of time to learn how it works (like any new software).

Avantages

The ease of use and functionality, paired with a great user interface. The fact you can create your own data structure and data relationships is so useful and enables complete flexibility within projects.

Inconvénients

That it hasn't got anything that really annoys me :-) But, it could do with a better dashboard or something rather than the current "Space home" page.

Avantages

The software is intuitive and easy to use, even for a beginner like me.

Inconvénients

I really don't have anything bad to say.

Avantages

Contentful is a very easy to use solution for managing your content without having to develop a custom backend. It has many moderns features and a nice access control for your data

Inconvénients

Compared to other solutions, it has a poor support for translations and the entry price is too high.

Avantages

Once I integrated contentful in my project, it was really easy to use and I think it's very useful and powerful.

Inconvénients

I used Contentful for my own project. Some parts of the integration were a little bit difficult. Maybe a documentation more easier to understand for the newbies could be great.

Avantages

- Flexibility
- Easy to use
- Easy to locate content - wide variety of filters and search
- Previews and webhooks are ++

Inconvénients

- The product is a bit slow to use
- Content State management could be improved - meaning when I delete a linked content, it sometimes leads to unexpected issues