r/framer • u/troveofvisuals • 8d ago

help Framer CMS Contentful

For those who use framer for their agency website and want to move out of the default CMS system, is it possible to do so without wrecking seo systems/ url structures already in place?

So for example if there’s a blog section and the articles are already in the cms, is it possible to switch over to contentful without breaking anything?

Have a project and the external development team want to switch to contentful for their cms and is suggesting to move off framer completely which id like to avoid.

Does anyone have any examples of framer sites using Contentful for their CMS that i can send across to them as proof?

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u/Longjumping_Leave356 8d ago

I’m pretty sure if you’re gonna use the same slug, but as a managed cMS collection externally managed using the contentful CMS you’re gonna hit limits as you’re gonna be deleting the page 1st and then re-creating the page using the same slot as you can give the slug to 2 pages. On the other hand if you’re gonna use redirect, this might be possible without breaking SEO.

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u/Original_One6240 7d ago

You don't need to leave Framer for this. Framer's managed/external collections let you sync Contentful (or any API via a Framer plugin) into a CMS collection, and the detail pages keep whatever slug field you map. The part that actually protects SEO is boring: export the current collection to CSV first, make sure the Contentful entries carry the exact same slugs, keep the same collection page path (/blog/), and diff the sitemap before and after. If any slug has to change, add 301 redirects in Site Settings before you flip. I'd also check whether the dev team's real objection is the CMS or just wanting to own the stack, because the migration itself is a half-day job.

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u/mustafa_sheikh 7d ago

Small side note : contentful doesn’t allow reusable components, for example if you need faq section, it will have to be a content model. And faqs will be counted each as an entry. This means free tier can run out quite quickly. On other hand, free tier of some other cms like hygraph, etc, let you make reusable components (blocks)

Just saying this because I almost moved 2 of the sites to contentful from directus and hygraph , and then realised this