Webflow's CMS (Content Management System) is an essential and powerful tool to manage the content of your site and keep it easily updated. Indeed, CMS collections allow to store and manage structured data like a database.

In this article we will review the interests of using collections in the no code Webflow tool and discover how to create a CMS collection.

Why use Webflow collections?

Collections allow you to create dynamic content and therefore dynamic pages that display data on a structured page upstream in the designer. It is possible to add, modify or delete content whenever you want to update the content of your website.

They can be used for the content management of a blog for example, by creating a collection of articles. Here are some other examples:

• collections of team members
• author collections
• project collections
• collections of products from an online store
• collections for events
• etc.

How to create a collection?

It is quite simple to create a collection:

• go to the Collections tab
• click on the "create a new collection" button

• give your collection a name
• choose a slug (URL structure)
• define and add the different fields you need. There are many types of fields (text, images, numbers, links, etc.)
• name these fields (title, description, publication date etc.)

→ If needed, help yourself to the collection templates and keep / delete the fields you want

• save your collection

→ If you want to modify, add or delete a field> collection settings

How to use collections to manage your website data?

Once you have created your collections, you can connect them to your elements on a page and use them to display dynamic pages.

→ They are very quickly identifiable by the color purple.

By using Webflow collections, you can facilitate the management of your data and improve the user experience of your website for your visitors. It is really a great tool to make your website dynamic by changing the content quickly.

Now that you know the CMS collections, don't wait any longer to use them on your Webflow site and go further in the discovery!

There are many options to discover with the collections like:

→ item filtering options

→ limit the number of items

→ sorting lists of collections