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Current Challenges with Dato CMS

Despite its strengths, Dato CMS may pose issues, particularly for projects requiring extensive customisation or specific feature sets, as it might lack depth in certain areas compared to other CMS platforms. We've never been huge believers in "drag-and-drop" schema builders because they lack inherent validation and extensibility.

The pricing model, which scales with the required functionality and traffic usage, could be a limitation for startups or smaller businesses. Additionally, the learning curve associated with its API-driven environment might pose challenges to non-developers. Some users may also need additional plugins or custom development to fully meet their needs.

Key Pain Points

•Limited customisation options
•Feature depth variability
•Pricing based on traffic
•Can be costly for startups
•Steeper learning curve
•API knowledge required
•Need for additional plugins
•Custom development needed
•Limited feature set scalability
•Non-developer challenges
•Potential integration issues
•Dependency on third-party tools

Benefits of Contentful

Contentful is an incredible headless CMS that can reuse documents. It's built far less structured than any other system, which ensures you have a large repository of data that can be used nested from one section to another. A good example would be that you only need to create a copy of a call-to-action once, and it can be reused throughout the whole website again and again. It also has a range of powerful plugins that extend the functionality.

If you're looking for a live preview, it also has a side-by-side editor to ensure your content creators are seeing changes in real-time, side by side with your schema.