Webflow Templates for Blog Posts

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The community member is asking whether they should use the automatically generated "Blog Posts Template" or the "Blog Post" page created by Relume to create a single blog post page in Webflow. They explain that they have a blog page and a blog post page, and Webflow created the "Blog Posts Template" when they created a blog posts collection. The community member has used the elements from the "Blog Post" page to create the "Blog Posts Template", and it works fine. However, they are unsure if this is the right approach or if they should have used the "Blog Post" page instead.

In the comments, another community member suggests that the community member should use the "Blog Posts Template" created by Webflow in order to get the CMS functionality they need. They explain that there is no way to inject elements into the CMS template, so the current approach of copying the elements from the "Blog Post" page into the "Blog Posts Template" is the correct way to do it.

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WWayne Ergle

Question on templates in Webflow. I included a blog page and blog post (single post) in my Relume sitemap. It (of course) created blog and blog post wireframes, which were imported into Webflow as pages. There is a blog page and a Blog folder with a Blog Post page inside it.

Webflow automatically created a CMS Collection page called Blog Posts Template when I created the Blog Posts collection. I am coming from WordPress, where you create a Single Post template and (basically) embed the template in a blog post page. With this in mind, I used the elements from the Relume created Blog Post page to create the Blog Posts template. (Copied and pasted the hero and content.)

Using the template as I described works fine. (i.e. when I click on a list item on the Blog page, that post appears.)

My question is whether this is the right way to create a single post page in Webflow? Or should I have used the Blog Post page created by Relume? (Although, I'm not sure how you would tell this page that it is for the current post.)

Hope the above makes sense!

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MMatt Johnson

shoot man I think you "kind of" lost me but I think I'm like 80% there and I think a read-only link will take me the rest of the way there or confirm that I have arrived at your question. Mind sharing that?

WWayne Ergle

Sorry, I imagine you with the look on your face that my wife has most of the time when I am talking...

Here's the read only link. https://preview.webflow.com/preview/wod-life?utm_medium=preview_link&utm_source=design[…]e&preview=25fa2c0e753cdf5de9b5120b7272eb86&workflow=preview

Shorter version of the question: For a single blog post (the individual post), should I use the Blog Posts Template automatically created by Webflow? Or the regular Blog Post page from Relume?

WWayne Ergle

Here's the pages.

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MMatt Johnson

right okay so I was following - got it.

Yeah in order to get the CMS functionality you'll need, you'll need to use the CMS collection template "Blog Posts Template" - so you can just copy/paste the page-wrapper div for the wireframe you created for "Blog Post" and paste it into this template, and then hook it up to the CMS. There's no way for us to inject elements into the CMS template so thats why we've structured it the way we have.

WWayne Ergle

Thanks,

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