Merging a New Relume Design into an Existing Webflow Site Without Breaking Styles

Samuel A. can you share the webflow project read-only?

Matt J. I have the same question as Samuel. Here’s our read-only link: https://preview.webflow.com/preview/makethedot?utm_medium=preview_link&utm_source=desi[…]t&preview=b200b0ce5e311bd31da7a6a959bb1de8&workflow=preview

I’m trying to revamp about half the pages on the site using Relume and create 6-8 new pages. Any advice on not building a site from scratch which might risk losing the traffic / seo would be much appreciated!

Following this as well!

I can do a quick loom I think that'll help everyone understand what you can (or can't do) with existing projects to bring Relume into those projects or update older Relume projects. I've got it on my list to knock out in the next day or so.

Matt J. Thank you! that would be great, and maybe how to align a site with no style guide to a new style guide when it is not easily importable?

Hannah B. unfortunately due to the limitations of Webflow, there is no way to simply apply or import a style guide into an existing project and make the Relume webflow app work. The only way the Relume app will work is if the Webflow project was started from scratch using our latest (v3.0) style guide. Wish there was a way, but there just is no way to technically to that today.

Hey all - I've got a quickish loom here. I was a bit surprised by the fact that there were spacing issues with copying a style guide into an existing project - that is definitely new. Webflow isn't carrying over certain types of settings like it used to, which is unfortunate. You'll see me fumble with that for a bit, and provide some direction. https://www.loom.com/share/3a7e1062f984405fa33fad16e5d0de72

Samuel A. without seeing your existing project, it feels like it might be different than what the others were asking for, and I feel like the answer might be having to use combo classes. There's now way to import a second style guide, or to use the webflow app to import a landing page that has its own style guide. So combo classes within that project would be the only way I can see making it happen.

Hi Matt J.! thanks for your verry quick answer, Yeah here is my project : https://preview.webflow.com/preview/new-abm-91b373?utm_medium=preview_link&utm_source=[…]3&preview=a90f348a2d968bd2441f693fb040ab96&workflow=preview

Matt J. Say we wanted to completely remake the website but move the domain over after to get us started with relume and have a set style guide is there a way to keep our CMS and SEO?

Hannah B. webflow has a plan transfer feature that will also instantly move over domain settings. For CMS, depends on the complexity of the setup. For basic blogs or FAQs, you could export the collections one-by-one and import them. For more complex migrations you could use a tool like whalesync which is amazing to use. For SEO, no matter what you do, when making large shifts in your code, you’ll see a hit on your SEO metrics. No way around that. Once the crawlers get familiar with your structure again, things should go back to how they were - in some cases better if carefully built. But yeah there’s no way to 100% preserve SEO performance when making moves like this and is usually a temporary decrease (30-60 days). I’m not an SEO expert, this is just based on my personal experience.

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you

Hannah B. great to hear! If you have any other questions, concerns or if there’s anything unclear - please let me know. Been there, done that! Happy to help

Samuel A. in your case, you started this project from our latest style guide, so you could in theory use the webflow app to bulk import pages. You will only be able to import wireframes, then you'll have to add some prefix classes or something to style. There's no way to import multiple style guides or even the same style guide twice into a single webflow project. Its a one-time import process.