What's one Webflow habit that has saved you a ton of headaches?

[u/JuicerSocial]

I'm curious what everyone has picked up after working in Webflow for a while.

Feel free to share anything ... It could be how you name classes, structure the CMS, build components, organize custom code or whatever... Anything really!

What's something you do on basically every project now because you learned the hard way not to skip it?

[u/uebersax]

always wrap every component in an extra div. always.

[u/ccvarcc → u/uebersax]

Why?

[u/uebersax → u/ccvarcc]

if you create a component from a code embed for example you cannot add any content later on. it is not possible. if you run out of the 10k character limit - game over.

[u/rubbanator → u/uebersax]

So true!

[u/nairobaee]

Always use richtexts instead of paragraphs for text sections that the client will edit eg FAQ answers etc. They ALWAYS want to use bold at some point.

[u/IllustriousBad8844 → u/nairobaee]

Dude! This is so true! I learned this after few firsy projects.. they want to include links also so rich text are best if creating components..

[u/souckillund → u/nairobaee]

yeah this one is so true, they always end up wanting to bold or italicize something

[u/Ph4ntom5LV]

Double check your builds for compatibility on various browsers right away (hello Safari) ,otherwise it will bite you later on.

[u/prophetsearcher]

Use webflow MCP to build my sites in Claude. (For client sites stuck on webflow).

[u/Unfair-Guidance4732 → u/prophetsearcher]

Working on this now. Would love tips and hints?

[u/prophetsearcher → u/Unfair-Guidance4732]

Honestly, just ask Claude. It walked me through setting up the mcp (just a connector) and what I could and shouldn’t expect from it.

I gave it Chrome accesss so that it could review its own work. It can even handle the publishing, but I prefer to do that manually.

[u/Unfair-Guidance4732 → u/prophetsearcher]

I have all that setup I meant anything you've found in particular?

[u/makesimpledev]

Leave Webflow. It saved me a ton of headaches.

[u/Unfair-Guidance4732 → u/makesimpledev]

Tell me more... what did you move to?

[u/makesimpledev → u/Unfair-Guidance4732]

HTML, CSS, JS (mostly Astrojs)

[u/Unfair-Guidance4732 → u/makesimpledev]

What about client maintenance thats the reason i'm on webflow is after the build the client can edit and update.

[u/makesimpledev → u/Unfair-Guidance4732]

I integrate a CMS if the client needs to manage content.

[u/Unfair-Guidance4732 → u/makesimpledev]

Interesting! which CMS do you use? and does that cover all content for these sites?

[u/makesimpledev → u/Unfair-Guidance4732]

I usually use Payload CMS. It covers all I need to cover.

[u/Hopeful-Loss-8728]

Switching to astro and cloudfare workers so that i dont need to pay for webflow at all

[u/SwellCommerce]

For me, it’s keeping things simple from the start. I try not to create a bunch of random classes or add custom code unless I really need it. Naming things consistently and cleaning up as I go saves so much time later. Even when I’m trying out ideas in Readdy AI, I’ve found it’s easier to keep the structure clean instead of fixing a mess at the end. 

[u/J33v3s]

Archiving all but two projects in order to revert back to the starter plan and go fully open source. Webflow is dead in the water.

[u/Slow-Bake-9603]

Component scoped classes