Contentful vs TinaCMS

"Contentful is mainly an API-based headless CMS, emphasizing structured content delivery rather than a mobile-first editing experience."

"Contentful focuses on optimizing web performance metrics but does not emphasize mobile content creation."

"No significant discussions regarding mobile-first content creation features for Contentful."

"Try Tina CMS, specifically with Tina cloud. I'm building a site out right now and the mobile editing experience is very straightforward."

"Using Tina to edit content is, unfortunately, where the rough edges start to show. I started trying to write this post on my phone... the interface is clearly not meant for mobile screen sizes."

"TinaCMS now supports various screen sizes and mobile devices, including iOS and Android. Whether you’re on the go, or at your desk, editing your content has never been more intuitive."

"With Content Source Maps, this setup is now fully automated. Our APIs now return source maps for fields that link directly to the corresponding field in Contentful."

"Easiest CMS to set up with Astro : r/astrojs"

"I also use TinaCMS for writing Blog post but it's way better than Tina CMS."

"Each item in your collections array represents its own entity. In the above example, we defined a post collection."

"Defining "collections". In the above example, we defined a post collection, and set its path as content/posts."

"Links are a powerful way to model relationships between content."

"Tina does not provide a feature for automatic call-to-action linking."

"Call to action buttons; Call to action panels are supported, but automatic linking is not mentioned."

"TinaCMS's Headless CMS Features do not include automatic call-to-action suggestions."

"The Comments tab allows you to communicate with collaborators in your space by creating comments, replying, and tagging members."

"Entry comments. Users can add comments to an entry. This allows for teams to collaborate and have conversations."

"Contentful's flexible content modeling goes far beyond blog posts. Here’s how you can leverage Contentful and Netlify to create a nested commenting system."

"TinaCMS has not integrated a traditional commenting feature like WordPress; it allows editing and review processes but does not allow public comments on articles."

"Currently, TinaCMS does not support external commenting features for user-generated feedback on blogs or articles."

"Multi-tenancy architecture means that all our customers and applications share a single, common infrastructure and code base that is centrally maintained by us."

"Our solution? A single, unified content platform."

"Contentful's multi-tenancy concept is extensible on all levels and continuously delivers new features."

"For a more advanced branching and Pull-Request workflow, checkout TinaCloud's editorial workflow (only available on Business and Enterprise plans)."

"Tina supports using external media providers, however a light backend media handler needs to be setup/hosted by the user."

"A solid content model is the foundation of every great digital project. Your model is the bones of your project; it tells our APIs what kind of content to send to your end application."

"You can set up your content model with the following tools: Visual modeler — Visually build your content model, view the content types and references."

"This guide will lay out a set of best practices that are considered good content modeling patterns."

"Currently, editor interfaces are fully supported in templates. These include all configurations for content type fields."

"Tina uses a "content-modeling as code" approach, allowing developers to define the shape of their content."

"Tina contains multiple field types like string, number, boolean, image, object, etc. that help in content modeling."

"TinaCMS allows for real-time visual editing and has a robust content modeling schema that enhances block-based editing."

"TinaCMS provides flexible content modeling features allowing developers to create custom content types."

"Tina CMS is highlighted as a notable Git-based content management system that excels in content modeling."

"To use custom components in Experiences, you need to register them."

"You can import your own design system components into Experiences to create on-brand digital experiences."

"The Forma 36 Design System and React component library provides a comprehensive collection of UI components."

"A custom component can be passed and rendered by setting the ui.component property on a field. This component completely overrides the original component."

"The first approach involves defining a React component and passing it into the component property of a field definition."

"Tina also provides a variety of pre-built components. To specify these, the ui.component property should be configured with the string name of the registered field plugin."

"In Contentful, full-text search terms are left anchored...full-text search is built into the standard entry listing endpoint."

"Contentful's full-text search capabilities allow searching across all fields."

"Contentful does include some intriguing full-text search capabilities out-of-the-box that searches across all fields."

"TinaCMS provides built-in search functionality for content. This is useful for allowing editors to quickly finding content in a site."

"Search is not currently supported in self-hosted Tina."

"The self-hosted backend does not currently have endpoints to support search functionality."