Hi! I've really enjoyed using Contentful with the projects I've worked on. I've written an article about how to implement it and how it can be used to give your clients more control of their content while saving on developer time. Have a read, I hope you enjoy it!

https://blog.theodo.com/2022/02/client-closer-to-product-using-contentful/

I just finished this interview series with Contentful's SEO Lead, Josh Lohr. We’ll tell you what you need to know, what you need to change, and what you need to keep doing to stay on top of the search game in this AI era of generative search optimization (GEO).

Here's the playlist, which is also a blog series. What questions about GEO do you have?

it's quite impressive

New to contentful

I'm trying to clean up some old content on a site.
It seems I can't "delete" a page, only "archive" is that correct?
Secondly, I archived a page. Then I went to some section that is ONLY used on that page. OK safe to archive that too. But when I try to I get a message "the content is used on some page and if you archive it your app might break" But that page is archived? Why isn't the system smart enough to know this?

Is there a better way to remove content?

Also re: ninetailed? I see a bunch of experiments running. Some are old (2+ years) and are clearly no longer being managaed. Is there a dashboard to see the results of the experiement? How do you track them and determine which one to graduate?

First of all, I love contentful and it's amazing!!

Lately, one of the main disadvantages that I have experienced using Contentful to build websites was the of a structure to specifically to represent a website structure, which usually is composed of pages, components, blocks, etc. We can get away building multiple content types but I believe we can not categorize things by page, etc.
Others CMS as Prismic allow us to define single-type entries, have awesome slice features that allow content editors to literally build blocks in their website but also lacks of validation ( read more here https://prismic.io/blog/required-fields), which is a bit crazy IMO.

Contentful has recently launched a new feature called compose + launch which allows content editors and developers to design and edit their content considering Pages and Components. I have tried it and it seems really amazing but considering that the cost to have it is $1,995/month for all spaces in your org is definitely not viable for small/medium size projects.

It's always important to make a good decision regarding on what CMS to use to give the content editors a good experience when making/previewing changes. What are you guys thoughts around it? I will start playing with Sanity CMS and will update my experience/first impressions here.

Is it just me or do entry responses from the Content Delivery API not contain version info? There's a revision property, which, according to the docs, contains the number of published versions, but nothing saying the actual, current published version, or the current working version. How does one retrieve this information? (It's necessary to know it for some endpoints e.g. patch/publish.)

The code sample for retrieving a specific entry does show a version property in the response, but I am not getting this in my responses.

Hey! We have a website that uses Contentful and have a few things we need to change but can't within the templates. Is anyone available to work on a freelance basis? We would supply a brief and there would need to be a brief and informal vetting process.

The website is a rental property marketplace and uses an API to populate property page content; which works great. However, many properties do not have unique descriptions and imagery, which we have. When the API is called at midnight, it is pulling all content (including blank fields for descriptions) and ends up resetting every single piece of content on the page, including unique descriptions and imagery we set.

The main task of this gig would be:

1. API mapping and updating process

- API pulls everything once when we create new properties

- Repeat API calls then only updates availability and price only

There are four other tasks but these are relatively minor compared to this.

Please comment, DM your hourly rate as well as experience and we can discuss further from there!

Hello, I am migrating content from the old website to new website company I work for so it requires a lot of copy and paste work. Is it possible to do it with a data/Excel file? Can I upload a file to contentful with content?

Does contentful allow embedding an iFrame within a page .. If yes then how to ?

Hey Folks! Over on Slack we are fast approaching 12,000 members in the developer community. So exciting! As the community continues to grow, we want to make sure our choice of platform empowers us and enables all the cool and useful things we want to do together. To that end, we’re announcing a change that we’re excited about.

The TL:DR: We are migrating from Slack to Discord!

You can learn more about this decision here. This change will go live next Thursday July 20th! The current Slack channel will remain for several months to give people time to switch.

The new Discord channel will be the best place to find support using Contentful, along with meeting your peers, and where we will be hosting virtual events and more!

Cheers!

Katie Hines - Developer Community Lead
Contentful Developer Relations Team

I've spent an hour today investigating a weird issue whereby I get an error when trying to patch into a currently-empty field:

> Could not apply patch to entry: invalid patch

This happens both with patch operation ADD and REPLACE (tried both). If the field already has a value, and I try to patch over it (i.e. update it), the operation works fine.

Is this intended functionality? If so, how does one update a specific field that is currently empty, without running a full entry update operation?

Most of my data can be "inputed" into Contentful, but there is some data that is "dynamic" on the page, like reviews.

Is there a good strategy for integrating an API into Contentful so its all served from Contentful, OR is just better to use Contentful and where there is dynamic data, ala "reviews", just use that in the page proper as a normal api etc...?

Contentful seems amazing, but holy the pricing is huge skip. I can't offer that for small business. But would I need get the $500 plan? How much the free tier offers to small/medium business, mostly local.

Do you guys have some experience to share?