Add structure to your content
23 minutes
Content creatorNow that you’ve switched to a headless CMS, it’s more important than ever to understand how to unleash its superpowers. The secret is to use structured and linked content.
Structured content 101
- 3 minutes
In Kontent.ai, you have a number of options that can help you enrich your content. They’re useful for reusing existing content or creating relationships between content items. The structured content objects are embedded as components, linked items, or media assets. We’ll dive into each of these individually to learn the ins and outs of each object and how they help you with your day-to-day tasks.
Single-use content? No problem!
- 5 minutes
Reusing existing content or creating relationships between content items sounds great and efficient, right? But let’s take it from the ground up. Imagine you need to embed content like a tweet or a Youtube video. You want to use it in one place only, not reuse it. Sure, no problem! That’s what components are for.Discover the single-use structured content before we dive deeper.
Reuse content with linked items
- 8 minutes
Reusing content with linked items is the next superpower you’re going to learn.Using linked items will speed up your content creation process and add semantic connections between your content items. These relationships may power various “You might also be interested in this article“ sections or similar on your website or in your app.
Assets as your biggest asset
- 7 minutes
Last but not least, your third superpower is the media asset library.In this lesson, you’ll discover the capabilities of the asset library, how to use images in content items, and how to reuse images and other assets in multiple places.