Storyblok introduces custom metadata for assets: Add more fields to your assets
Storyblok is the first headless CMS that works for developers & marketers alike.
As your business expands, it will inevitably accumulate more and more assets, meaning that, eventually, organizing all your assets becomes much more difficult, and the search performance of your assets will not be as good as you'd expect.
We at Storyblok care about these problems and are continuously trying to create more flexibility for our users to manage all their content. That's why we are introducing a new feature: Custom metadata for assets.
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Custom metadata allows users to add additional relevant details to each asset, which can be useful for organizing and categorizing assets. Companies can significantly enhance asset management and classification with the help of supplementary metadata.
Storyblok offers a solid standard number of metadata fields that include Alternative text (Alt), Title/Caption, and Copywrite. However, with increasingly growing content requirements, you may need to add customized metadata for efficient content management.
Adding custom metadata to assets gives users more freedom to configure their assets and enrich asset information. Users can also set custom fields for specific asset types, translate values, and mark fields as required.
This is how adding custom metadata fields looks like in Storyblok
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Compared to the standard metadata fields, custom metadata gives users the flexibility to define asset fields that are specific to your company’s requirements. Not only can you add additional values, but also set up the requirements to make sure that all users fill in the data you need.
Improving SEO results by adding more information that search engines can crawl is another advantage of custom fields. The update also helps marketers and SEO specialists by populating asset values across different components, saving them time.
Example of custom metadata fields for assets
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Adding custom metadata to your assets is available for both the Teams and Enterprise plans, and the amount of customized fields that can be added is as follows:
- Business: 5
- Enterprise: 10
- Enterprise Plus: Unlimited
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We at Storyblok work hard to deliver the most flawless content experience possible to all teams. Whether you're a developer, marketer, content editor, or SEO specialist, you'll appreciate the improved flexibility, agility, and convenience of using a headless CMS. Storyblok already provides a user-friendly UI and powerful features for any team, but we're always looking for ways to improve our offerings and add new ones – like custom metadata fields, this time.
If your current plan doesn't allow you to use the updated fields, feel free to contact our team to discuss the upgrade and the possibilities it may open up. If you already got access to custom metadata but still have questions, don't hesitate to check this article or our Discord for assistance.
