Webflow CMS for blogs and portfolios - step by step guide

With Webflow, you can create templates for blog pages using their Content Management System (CMS). It is super easy to get started and you can also use this setup for other pages that you use the same formatting over and over.
In this video, I show you how to create a new CMS, how to design the blog home page, posts and how to add new posts once your template is ready.
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[@carlossoares1727]

Very nice video Kayla! Love the way you explain things, looking forward to see you building more in Webflow! Thanks for sharing!

[@Kayla-app]

I'm so happy it was clear and helpful! It's great to get your feedback on what videos to make next, I will make sure to include more Webflow tips 🙌

[@lunafilms3684]

Thank you. You explained the CMS patiently and methodically. The fog is clearing! 😀

[@Kayla-app]

Oh how nice! I love when you get past the technical and can start designing 😊

[@vinaychouhan3048]

Very nice ! Love the way you explain things. Thanks for sharing!

[@Kayla-app]

I'm so glad you found it helpful! :) Thank you for watching 👐

[@rachelwright7386]

Thanks a lot for this video! I think it's one of the best out there for creating CMS collection pages on Webflow. I've come back to this multiple times during my project - super helpful!

[@Kayla-app]

That is so nice to hear! 😊 I'm so happy it was helpful 🙌

[@mob.4301]

Hi, I just wanted to thank you because your video helped me a lot. Your contents are very interesting.

[@Kayla-app]

I'm so happy to hear that! :) Just let me know if you have any questions at all!

[@ntnweb]

Thanks Kayla very clear and easy to follow tutorial!

[@Kayla-app]

I'm so happy it was helpful! 🙌

[@franci-uz]

perfect video! How can I add Tags / Categories instead of the Date? I know how to add one category per Blog post, but not how to add many, because flexible CMS options arent shown. Do you have a video on this?

[@soundzer]

Great tutorial, thanks for all the tips Kayla!

[@Kayla-app]

You are so welcome! Thank you for watching 🙌

[@cortesvictorh]

For some reason when I convert the div block into a link block it changes the dimensions of some of the elements. I can't seem to convert to link without it changing the entire design.

[@Qxach]

set the width to 100%

[@OulijahBruno]

@@Qxach Needed this.

[@thulanim346]

A great video, followed it step by step and everything worked. Thanks!!👏

[@Kayla-app]

That is great! I hope you will enjoy using the CMS, it is so practical once you get used to it 😊 🙌🏽

[@mw5145]

You did a very good job. Thank you

[@Kayla-app]

You are so welcome! 😊 Thank you for watching 🙌

[@ReidNeeser]

Loved the video, but you didn't get into building out the second column? How do these elements remain consistent across all blogs?

[@Kayla-app]

Great question! Anything you add to the blog template page will be the same for all posts after that. It makes it easier when you want to make changes 😊

[@hiddenfactor]

Very easily explained. thanks

[@Kayla-app]

I'm so happy you found it helpful!

[@ElementarySoul-b5q]

Very nice video. So much better than the webflow university videos. I had a question... I am unable to get the vertical blocks i tried so many options but just not getting the vertical blocks and if i get either its not pasting side to side. It is also appearing as a small block instead of the one you showed

[@Kayla-app]

Hi! I'm so happy you enjoyed the video 😊 It sounds like it could have to do with the alignment settings and for the size, does it change if you make the column size bigger in the size settings? Sorry I can't give a more exact answer, it is a little hard to say without seeing the screen. Hope that helps! 🙌

[@ElementarySoul-b5q]

@@Kayla-app it doesnt change even if i chnage the size setting. Its like one static horizontal box

[@Bri-Official-Selftalks]

Good job, I am not seeing the blog post “get text” feature when making the page. Any tips or suggestions would help. (Status: not staged published)

[@10XbigGERDigital]

Brilliant tutorial! Thank you!

[@Kayla-app]

I'm so glad! Just let me know if you have any questions 😊

[@MeherSaigol]

I will!

[@aayushguptaaa]

it is not working for me and I'm unable to figure it out please help!!

[@fdilaaaaaa]

thank you, this was a nice lessons!!

[@Kayla-app]

I'm so happy to hear that! 😀

[@ahmada.shaheen9008]

Good job, I have a question.. Is It possible to create a pre-designed customized dashboard or control panel to add articles other than Webflow dashboard?!

[@Kayla-app]

Great question, are you thinking like a dashboard that makes it easier for clients? In my experience, it is quite an easy learning curve. You can set aside a little bit of time at the end of a project to show them. Other than that, I am not sure if you can build your own, I am more on the design side, but check with the Webflow community 😊

[@mob.4301]

thanks a lot you really helped me

[@ethicseo]

Jess can change yr life ❤

[@hatef1725]

Hey great video, would appreciate it if the background music was a little quieter so we can hear your better. Thank you

[@Kayla-app]

Hi! That is great feedback, thank you :) We have tried to do this for our newer videos so I hope those work better. I'm so happy you enjoyed the video!

[@vibhavverma2874]

Thanks alot...❤ It is really helpful....

[@Kayla-app]

I'm so glad to hear that! 🙌

[@Sponsi_PL]

12:20 I don't have those options, how do you open them? I only have the right panel options but only 4 or 5 options and idiocies like "something's color".

[@DianaAranaBadillo]

same here! Did you fix it?

[@alextatar-fr6bj]

hi! Thanks for your super fast reply! I expressed myself wrong, I meant the 5 sample posts did you have them made in Excel, Word and saved as a CSV file and then upload them to the samples? (Same as Lucian Tatar 😂)

[@Kayla-app]

In my case, I write all the text in a Google doc and then copy and paste it into each field one post at a time. If you have a lot of blogs from a previous site for example, you can use a csv file just like you mentioned. I have not done that before so I'll add a link here to Webflow's own page on this. Hope this helps! webflow.com/feature/csv-import

[@alextatar-fr6bj]

@@Kayla-app thanks so much! Now is clear

[@chukwumaudokporo2586]

NIce! How do you host your blog?

[@macmdq]

Hi Kayla I need to add a template to my CMS plan, but it's impossible for me. When I select a template, it creates a new site, but outside of my CMS plan. Is there any solution for this?

[@Kayla-app]

I'm sorry you are having troubles, this is probably more of a question for the Webflow team. I hope you get it resolved!

[@オクムラタク]

Thanks Kayla

[@Kayla-app]

You are welcome! I'm so happy you enjoy the videos 🙌

[@luciantatar8759]

Hey! When You Created sample iems fow did you upload them? did you have them on a csv file, excel and just import?

[@Kayla-app]

Hi! The sample pages are an automatic option that Webflow creates for you. In other words, you can choose to start with a number of sample pages that you can later remove. This helps when you design the pages for the CMS since you can better see what is happening. Does that make sense? Let me know if I didn't answer your question and I will try to help 🙌

[@MdMoniruzzaman-r2v]

Thank You So Much🥰🥰🥰

[@Kayla-app]

You are so welcome, I am glad it was helpful 🙌

[@krugu1]

NIce tutorial, but why are you designing everything with pixels? Thats awful for responsiveness and accessibility :D

[@Kayla-app]

Great point! Thank you for letting me know about the accessibility, that is really important. I actually did switch how I do it so it is nice to get that confirmation 😊 🙌

[@krugu1]

@@Kayla-app U can look up ,fluid responsiveness‘ by Finsweet :) It’s a really good best practice

[@Swifman622]

As someone new to all of this, what would you suggest instead?

[@krugu1]

@@Swifman622 There are various approaches. The best one that also considers accessibility is in my opinion to use the measure REM in combination with the Finsweet Fluid responsive generator. For properties like line height I’d use unit less parameters. In Webflow you can type for example 1.4- and then enter in the field to transform global classes such as All Headings into a unitless parameter

[@a.kstudio4301]

😘😘😘😘

[@itschristinamoon]

You didnt even finish the page.

[@omarabdi3590]

great video, informative and very well put. Consider me a subscriber

[@Kayla-app]

I'm so happy to hear that! 😊 Welcome to our creative community!

[@eotikurac]

webflow is as amateurish as canva. endless marketing funds keep pushing these tools in front of people's eyes and because people are sheep, they buy. webflow makes both the amateur and the professional developer's life much more difficult.

[@ga7741]

Wrong. It's an incredibly powerful tool when understood and used correctly.

[@eotikurac]

@@ga7741 show me one website you made in that broken pos hell hole you called incredibly powerful.

[@muzamilshah1262]

Miss kayla From where I can download the icon or tamplete ??? please could you share your email with me ?

[@stinkleaf]

Shoudl we create a spearate imag for thumbs to not blow up page size with hero preview loads?

[@alyu6351]

So the collection's name is Blog and it's url is blog. Why do we see /optimist/post, and not /blog/post in url?

[@magaliOULLIE]

Thanks I have a problem when I do link div block and that I select in settings Current Blog Post new it open on nothing. How it is possible to open on a new page ? Thank for your help

[@Uzodesign]

What country is Kayla from? I spy an accent.

[@simonaqua6079]

why You dont showing navigator panel??

[@granthoude9172]

Thank you! Very helpful.

[@Grieszz]

So what about the first thing you were saying with that some blog post have images some haven't. Can you just leave one item empty and then it doesn't show on the blog page? How is it flexible? At my company we have blog posts where some are very different then others, for example some only have some text with a video and some have a large text with a lot of images. How does that work?

[@marielnc4457]

I have the same questionn😢🙃!

[@Grieszz]

I know now you can turn items on/off if you add a button to the cms collection@@marielnc4457

[@miracledike8005]

Think you should crate a different CMS for those category of posts

[@dian.romanenko]

Hello Kayla! Thank you so much for such good content. I want to create my own images and add them to my blog articles. Can you please recommend the size for the images?

[@Kayla-app]

Hi! I usually go with 1280 x 720 (the same as a KZbin thumbnail) because it has the 16:9 ratio that is used for a lot of screens. If you notice that the file size get a bit big, try halving both or export at a lower resolution. I hope that helps 😊

[@markuspatzer8658]

👍👍 It looks better than wordpress and squarespace ! I see on their price plan pages are limited do they have a limit on blog posts too when you do a lof of blogging every day ? Happy Friday !

[@Kayla-app]

I really like it! :) Their site plan specifies the number of CMS pages, for example their 23 dollar a month plan comes with 2K CMS items and the 39 dollar plan has 10K :) You might need to pay for a Workspace plan as well, depending on your needs. They have some good articles about it on their website. Good luck!

[@binaryatlas]

I am new to web flow. When I pick the image for the div tag it cuts the image off. Can you make the image resize to the div tag?

[@senzaura6786]

Hi Kayla, you inspired me to build my own blog. But, I have a several question, first, when I drag text-block and wanna fill it with my created-on variable, there's no choice like that. And when I try to fill Headline using title from my cms Title variable, also there's no choice for that. May you help me? I've been confused for a day. Because the hero image itself, can use from cms.

[@jonb5150]

SUPER HELPFUL! Thanks!! Keep up the great work:)

[@stevenp6761]

I've tried watching the Webflow University CMS course about three times, but I kept giving up because the explanations were poorly done. The content felt superficial, just offering "snippets" without much depth, like clicking here and there. They are focusing too much on being funny, but it is distracting when it comes to complex ideas. In contrast, I understood the entire concept of Webflow's CMS after watching this video just once, and I made my blog template in about 30 minutes. Thank you so much-I really mean it. Thank you!

[@Kayla-app]

Oh I'm so glad to hear that the video was helpful! 😊 Good luck with your project 🙌

[@JefDeNiel]

Please use the navigator!!!!

[@lamouralice4533]

1:11 starting

[@SamarthRS-te5xm]

Thank a bunch for this video Kayla! This literally helped me build a blog from scratch

[@Kayla-app]

That is great! Thank you for letting me know and I'm so happy it was helpful 🙌

[@pauintano]

Superb! This really helps me make my CMS collection live! Thx so much!

[@Kayla-app]

I'm so happy to hear that! 😊 Good luck with your site!

[@cher332]

Thank you very much. This video was a lifesaver! You are great at explaining things.

[@Kayla-app]

Oh I'm so happy to hear that! 😊 I'm so glad you enjoyed the video 🙌

[@Pauline2840]

thank you, you helped me a lot 💜

[@Kayla-app]

I'm so glad to hear that! 😊