Site's 9 years old and the marketing pages are the part that keeps breaking, plugin update, security patch, some builder conflict, and the homepage looks off til I go dig through it. The blog's fine, ranks well, I'm leaving it alone. Anyone split the marketing side off and keep the blog on WP, or was running two setups more hassle than it was worth?
I'm moving a site about 400 articles deep onto a clean CMS and the migration is the part scaring me. three writers over four years, so the fields are all over the place, inconsistent bios, a chunk of pillar pages orphaned. traffic's fine, it's just unmaintainable. What i'm stuck on is the actual move. how do you standardise the fields and get 400 old posts into a clean structure without hand entering every one, and without a rebuild quietly rewriting pages you didn't touch? i'm not a dev so a script isn't on the table.
How have people handled a migration this size?
Small studio, 6 of us, client work doubled since last fall and we didn't grow the team, so we've leaned on templates harder than I'd like and now you can tell three sites came off the same skeleton. Handoff's the other half we build it clean, hand it over, and a month later someone's dragged a section and the layout's broken, so we're doing unpaid cleanup. Tried Webflow, Wix, a junior tried Bolt either it fights our design system or spits out something nobody can maintain.
How are you all keeping volume up without every site turning into the same three templates?
I'm a marketing manager at a mid-size B2B and I am finding that every landing page, every hero headline tweak, every pricing table update goes through our dev agency. A one line copy change is a ticket, a quote, and anywhere from two days to two weeks. We got billed last month for changing a CTA from "Book a demo" to "Get a demo." I am not kidding on this.
The obvious answer is "let marketing own the site," and leadership is open to it, but the second someone says that, engineering points out (fairly) that the last time a non-dev touched the production site we had a half-day outage.
Sooooooo nobody wants a junior coordinator pushing to prod and taking the whole thing down before a big launch.
I have poked at a few things. Webflow felt like it still needs a real designer to not look broken. I have tried Lovable and v0 for a landing page and they spit out something fine, but then it is just code I cannot maintain and I am back to needing a dev anyway. WordPress is what we are half on now and it is a plugin graveyard.
So what actually works for you?
I want my team (none of them code) to be able to ship copy and new sections themselves, on brand, without the ability to nuke the live site. The real app stays with engineering, I am only talking about the marketing site and blog.
What are you all using? Trying to avoid trading one bottleneck for a worse one.
So I've been shopping these past few weeks for a marketing site + portfolio (not an app, just pages), and I keep getting the same bs!
I've tried Loveable, Bolt. v0 and even Webflow. On the one hand the one is JUST Ai and the other end there is no Ai assistance available.
Do you know of anything in between? Not just a black box I prompt, but some middle ground?
Its not like I want to build dashboards or logins, just marketing pages and a blog.
Hey everyone,
So its been like 4 years for me now building in Webflow, and I know the class system well enough that it's not where my time goes anymore.
What I keep seeing though in every AI demo is the same thing: someone prompts a brand new homepage from scratch, it looks great, and everyone claps, but that's like maybe 10% of the actual work. The other 90% is editing sites that already exist, adding an on-brand section that picks up the existing utility classes instead of inventing new ones. Fixing the responsive that broke at 768 because someone added a custom property that overrides the tablet breakpoint. Swapping a layout without nuking the components downstream that reference the same combo class.
I've tried Lovable and v0 for this and they're solid for greenfield builds, but the moment you point them at an existing Webflow project they don't really read what's already there. They generate clean markup that has nothing to do with your class structure, so you spend the next 45 minutes renaming everything and fixing the cascade. At that point I'm faster just building the section manually in the Designer.
Genuinely curious if anyone has found an in-canvas AI workflow that respects an existing Webflow build rather than starting from zero every time. I don't mean generating a new site, but reading the styles, understanding the naming convention, and adding to it without creating cleanup work. Or is this still the gap nobody's actually solved and we're all just pretending the greenfield demos represent real production work?
So I am a teacher and I was just thinking about how weird kids` brains can be, and remembered a rule I had for myself when I was about 11 years old. Whenever I walked on a sidewalk, I absolutely could not step on the cracks. If I accidentally did, I had to tap my opposite foot twice to "reset" the balance of what I just did. I did this for years without anyone noticing. Did anyone else invent these random, silent games or strict little laws for themselves growing up? Like eating the red M&Ms last or holding you breath past cemeteries? What was your weird childhood micro rule?
Hey everyone!
I was just driving home from work and Living on prayer from Bon Jovi came on the radio. Naturally for me I lost my mind and sang the song at the top of my lungs. Got some weird looks from people next to me at the traffic lights, lol. It made me laugh, but also made me realize that some songs just demand maximum volume and NO shame at all! This is the kind of tracks that possess you as soon as they start playing. What is that song for you? Let`s build a shout along playlist.