What is Webflow CMS: All you need to know

Hello dear reader, welcome! Today we are going to discuss all about Webflow CMS. This is our favorite Webflow feature, it’s super powerful and extremely easy to use.

We are going to be talking about:

• What Webflow CMS can do!
• Who can use Webflow CMS?
• Why you should use Webflow CMS?
• Pricing
• Benefits
• & important details

First of all, if this is your first time hearing about Webflow, go read our article all about Webflow.

In summary, Webflow is a Website Development Platform for the next generation of businesses. It creates powerful websites with incredible animations, interactions, and integrations.

What is Webflow’s CMS?

CMS stands for Content Management System, it’s a powerful tool that helps you create and manage content on your website.

Webflow CMS lets you add or edit straight on your website and then publish with a click!

This means that any business owner even without website development experience can go into their website and change the content without altering the structure of the website. This eliminates the stress of "What if I mess it up?" You can't.

The CMS can be configured in a way that allows changes in the

• Text
• Images
• Media Files
• Links

Thus, making it easy and simple for you to keep all your content up to date. And the best thing is that you can change the content on the CMS Collections once and it changes automatically throughout the site.

Additionally, with certain plans, you can invite from 3 to 10  team members to join you update the site this way you can have your team work alongside you.

Isn’t it neat?!

How to get Webflow CMS?

To get Webflow CMS for your website, all you need to do is choose any of the plans that include CMS. Pricing for Webflow CMS starts at $20 monthly or $160 annually.

Webflow hosting is lightning-fast since it uses Amazon’s servers, it’s easy to set up because you don’t need FTP Transfers nor cPanel, site is always up and running and...

SSL comes standard with all Webflow plans!

Additionally, Webflow CMS allows you to create CMS Collections.

What is Webflow CMS Collection?

A CMS Collection is a group or a specific category of databases. It’s where content can be added to your database and later on connected to your website dynamically.

These databases are created uniquely to store a specific type of content. Let’s say you want to add a blog to your Webflow website, then you can create a CMS Collection with the fields that you need to run your blog posts with the same design,

This is how you would create your blog as a CMS Collection:

1. Create a CMS Collection in your dashboard
2. Add the fields you need
3. Save
4. Start adding your collection items

What is a Collection Item?

A collection item is an individual piece within a collection. In other words, if we were creating your blog, the collection item would be a blog article.

What is a CMS Field?

The CMS Fields are the options that you can choose from to add content when you are creating your CMS Collection. Some CMS Fields are:

• Plain Text
• Rich Text
• Image
• Video Link
• Link
• Email
• Phone
• Number
• Date/Time
• Switch
• Color
• Option
• Reference
• Multi-Reference

What can the Webflow CMS do?

The CMS can run your database of content for your blog articles, member profiles (if integrated), can alter your products & anything else that is retrievable information.

Basically, it runs your content and allows you to created new pages that have the same structure with this new information that you are inputting into your CMS.

You can run your entire blog from your website or your restaurant menu, schedules for your Personal Trainer Business, or the products for your Shop or your member profiles & lots more.

The power that the CMS has is basically limitless!

Especially because you can add Reference fields and Multi Reference Fields which call options from other CMS Collections.

It also allows you to edit all the content on your website in a way that takes minutes and not weeks and all the changes can be done completely for free by you or your team.

Who can or should use Webflow?

The CMS is a great tool for creating content that has the same aesthetic or composition. It’s perfect for businesses that use blogs, member profiles, or sell products.

Webflow is perfect to get your business online!

Some of the businesses that use Webflow are:

• Tech Companies (Product-based, Apps, SAAS, Software, Mobile)
• Food & Drinks (Restaurants, Coffee Shops, Winery, Cocktail Lounge, Beer Company)
• Entertainment Companies (Podcasters, Book Writers, Magazine, Artists)
• Creative Industry (Artists, Graphic Designers, Illustrators, Photographers, Videographers, Agency, Website Designer, Developers, Product Designers, Freelancers)
• Fitness Businesses (Gyms, Yoga Instructors, Personal Coaches, Sports)
• Marketing Companies (Influencers, Event Coordinators, e-mail marketer, Conferences)
• Beauty & Wellness (Cosmetics Store, Barbers, Hair Salons, Spas, Makeup Artists, Skin Care Specialists, Hair Products)
• Startups
• Fashion Industry (Clothing Store, Accessories Store, Watches)
• Small Businesses (Hotels, Dentists, Travel Agencies, Online Academies)

These are only some types of businesses that are currently creating and hosting their websites with Webflow. The types increases as many other business owners meet Webflow.

Here are examples of the CMS being used to alter products:

Here is an example of Blogs being edited and created using Webflow's CMS:

Here is an example of Schedules using Webflow's CMS:

A little about Webflow

The CMS is evolving as time goes by, Webflow has been around since 2013 which is relatively young, more features have been added since we started using it, features like multi references to fill out fields from other CMS Collection and helpful functions like visibility condition.

Webflow is a San Francisco based company that offers Website designing and hosting. They offer an ever-evolving platform that has an incredible community of designers and is very responsive to questions or issues.

Go check it out www.webflow.com

Why should you use Webflow CMS?

With content marketing as one of the best ways to market your brand, easily editing your website has become a necessity.

Webflow CMS saves you money, time, and runs your website.

Editing your website is now an easy task and not a hassle. With Webflow’s easy-to-use platform you can have all the power as a business owner.

Now, you don't have to depend on a professional web designer or website development team to post your content, you can easily do it yourself.

Pros and Cons about Webflow CMS  

Pros

1. Edit content on your own
2. Easy & visual editing
3. Schedule Posts

Cons

1. Right now there is a limit in Multi Reference Fields
2. Nested Collection

Pricing

Website Plans that include CMS:

• Webflow Website Plan: CMS which costs $20 monthly or $160 annually. This plan is the lowest tier that includes CMS and it’s best for running a blog
• Webflow Website Plan: Business which costs $45 or $432 annually. This plan is best for high traffic content-driven sites.
• Webflow eCommerce Plan: Standard which costs $42 monthly or $348 annually. This plan is best for new shops that want to hit the ground running. You have the eCommerce + CMS features.
• Webflow eCommerce Plan: $84 monthly or $888 annually. This plan is best for shops that have a higher volume and need additional features. With this plan, you have all Business Plans features + eCommerce + CMS

Is Webflow expensive?

Some think this is very expensive but if you think about how much developer costs would be to develop each page every time you want to add a blog page article or other pages that repeat the design, then this price is cheap.

Extra details about Webflow

• Check out all our websites created in Webflow www.beehexabranding.com.
• Official Webflow CMS Page.
• Webflow has templates that they sell, check them here.
• Read the Webflow University Webflow’s CMS page that gives all the technical and useful details about the CMS.

Conclusion

In Conclusion, Webflow CMS is a great tool to create a dynamic stunning website that you can easily edit.

Thanks for reading, see you next time!

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