Contently offers a variety of integrations to help you connect Contently to the platforms you use the most. We currently offer integrations for popular CMS and social platforms like WordPress and Facebook. These integrations help you push completed content to your CMS and polished social posts to your social accounts. 

Contently maintains a public API for those who have the development resources to build their own custom integrations. This gives you the flexibility to integrate Contently with other platforms. 

In addition to these integrations, we also offer single sign-on (SSO) functionality. This lets you manage user access and lets your employees log into Contently using the same login credentials they use for other systems they use at work like Gmail.

In this article, we will walk through:

Contently can help you push completed content – including story copy, metadata, and assets – from Contently straight to your content management system (CMS). Contently offers integrations for WordPress, Drupal, and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).  

Contently’s content editor supports basic HTML formatting. All story copy is sent to WordPress, Drupal, and AEM as plain HTML with your formatting in tact.  

Our WordPress and Drupal integrations let you customize a variety of settings:

WordPress Details: Our WordPress integration supports 4.x and above (4.5+ recommended) with limited support for two common plugins: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and SEO Yoast. Both the free and paid versions of these plugins are supported.  Please understand that some features of these plugins might not be supported. We cannot guarantee support for future updates to these two plugins. Our WordPress integration also supports multisite installations. Please note that WordPress does not have support for video files. Installing the WordPress integration is easy. It requires logging into your CMS, navigating to your plugins, uploading a folder that Contently will give you, and entering an API key that you can get from the Contently website once you’re set up and running on our platform. This installation can often be done without support from a technical team. To get started with WordPress, click here. 

Drupal Details:  Our Drupal module supports versions 7.x and 8.x with limited support for three common modules: Workbench moderation – which helps with publish scheduling – as well as the Locale and Metatag modules. Please understand that support for these modules is limited and some features might not be supported. We cannot guarantee support for future updates to the Workbench, Locale, or Metatag modules. While you can push embedded videos from Contently to Drupal's main body section, please note that our Drupal module does not have support for specific video plugins. Installing the Drupal module is easy. It requires logging into your CMS, navigating to your plugins, uploading a folder that Contently will give you, and entering an API key that you can get from the Contently website once you’re set up and running on our platform. This installation can often be done without support from a technical team. To get started with Drupal, click here.

AEM Details: Our AEM connector supports versions 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5 in both Classic UI and Touch UI. Installing the Adobe Experience Manager integration requires some support from your IT team. You can install the integration directly from Adobe's App Exchange in AEM. To get a head start, you can share Contently's AEM User Guide for Classic UI and Touch UI with the team that manages your AEM instance. To get started with Adobe Experience Manager, click here. 

Once you install the WordPress, Drupal, or AEM integration, a “Push to CMS” button will appear next to your completed content on Contently. Use this button to push your content straight to your CMS.

Contently can help you publish social posts from Contently straight to your social accounts. Many people like to post on Facebook or send a tweet when they publish new content to their website. If you create these social posts alongside your content on Contently, you can easily post to your social channels using our social integrations. 

Our social integrations let you publish posts and tweets directly to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. You can also schedule future posts and tweets to be automatically published at the optimal time to engage your target audience.

Contently lets you connect one Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn account to each of your Contently publications.

Once installed, a “Post” or “Tweet” button will appear next to each completed social post on Contently. Use this button to push your content straight to your social account.  

To get started with Facebook, click here.
To get started with Twitter, click here.
To get started with LinkedIn, click here.

Contently maintains a Contently API so that you can build the custom solutions that your team needs. Contently also supports webhooks so that you can publish your content to a variety of URLs. These two options give each of our clients the ultimate flexibility to plug Contently into the platforms they use the most. We often see clients use the Contently API to build custom integrations into their own CMS. We built our WordPress, Drupal, and AEM integrations using both the Contently API and webhooks.

If you’re planning on using the Contently API or our webhook functionality to build a custom integration, please note that you will be responsible for building this custom integration at your own cost with your own technical team. Contently agrees to maintain the Contently API—and we’d be happy to jump on the phone to help point your technical team in the right direction—but we cannot build custom integrations at this time.  

Before you begin building a custom integration, please work with your Customer Success lead to set up your workflow, tags, and custom fields. Once you're familiar with these aspects of the Contently platform, working with the Contently API will be much easier. Once you complete this onboarding, please have a technical team member look through our API and webhook documentation, which is available at http://developers.contently.com. Details are below.

Contently API Details:  You can use the Contently API to pull your completed content out of Contently. Please note that you cannot use the API to upload content or make changes to your content in Contently.

Available information includes:  

Webhook details: You can set up a custom webhook to push completed content to a URL that you choose. You can use webhooks independently or alongside the Contently API. If you're using the Contently API to build a custom integration with your CMS, the webhook will help you push completed content to your CMS. When you enter a webhook URL into Contently, we will add a “Push to CMS” button next to your completed content. 

If you'd like to use our Contently API or webhook support to build a Custom CMS integration, click here to get started.

If you'd like to use our API to integrate Contently into another platform, click here to get started.

Single sign-on (SSO) lets your users log into Contently using the same credentials they use to log into your corporate intranet, identity management solution, or other trusted platform. This minimizes the number of passwords your users have to maintain and gives your IT department the assurance and control they need.

Contently uses SAML 2.0 to securely exchange authentication data between your company’s identity management provider and Contently. SAML 2.0 is the industry standard for identity management and is supported by major identity management solutions such as Microsoft’s ActiveDirectory, Google’s G-Suite, and Okta.

We use each user’s email address to determine whether we show them a Contently login screen or a unique SSO login screen, such as Okta. Setting up SSO with Contently is typically pretty easy but it does require installation support from your IT department.

To start using single sign-on, view our Enabling SSO help center article.