What Arboretum Solves Inside Contentful
One tool, two very practical jobs.
Four Things Arboretum Does Well
No marketing promises. Four concrete benefits.
One tool, two very practical jobs.
No marketing promises. Four concrete benefits.
For editors, Arboretum makes the site structure visible. Instead of reconstructing hierarchy from entry lists, references, or route fields, you see the sitemap as a sitemap. That makes planning, reviewing, and maintaining complex page structures much easier.
It is especially useful once a site grows beyond a few top-level pages. Sections, landing pages, campaign pages, and nested content become easier to understand because the structure is shown directly inside Contentful.
For developers, Arboretum provides a consistent way to work with routing data. You can translate a path to the matching entry ID and resolve an entry ID back to its path. That helps in front-end routing, preview logic, migrations, redirects, and debugging.
The important part: the structure stays in Contentful. No separate database. No parallel sitemap source that drifts out of sync with the CMS.