I have been using Wix for years and always appreciated its ease of use—until the release of Wix Studio. Almost every step now feels like a battle:
Since switching, adding a menu no longer propagates across all pages. What used to be a single action now requires individual configuration per page, and even then the menu frequently fails to appear. The official documentation offers no clear, centralized instructions for creating a truly global navigation, so you end up guessing through settings that don’t work as expected.
The separation between desktop and mobile editing has become a significant hurdle. Adjustments made in mobile view regularly distort my desktop layout, and edits on desktop are ignored in mobile. It’s impossible to achieve a consistent design without constant back-and-forth, which wastes time and undermines confidence in the platform.
The Wix Studio mobile app—once a convenient tool for on-the-go changes—no longer displays menus at all, even on active pages. This forces me back to the desktop editor for any navigation fixes, defeating the purpose of having a mobile companion.
Performance has also taken a nosedive. Saving, previewing, and even typing can trigger noticeable lag or cause the editor to crash. Frequent bugs and random errors interrupt my workflow and delay project delivery. The result for my business has been missed deadlines, frustrated clients, and real financial losses.
I’m sharing these experiences across forums, YouTube channels, and Facebook groups to warn fellow designers and business owners. Until Wix addresses these critical flaws, I can’t recommend Studio to anyone who values efficiency, reliability, or sanity.
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I can see that the switch to Studio can be a learing curve for anyone that has only designed on the Classic Editor. Trying to learn how to build responsive sites is totally different.
In saying that there are plenty of documents and tutorials to help learn.
Setting a menu can be achieved using the global sections area. Build your header and set the pages you want it to appear on.
Design through breakpoints cascades, but some elements if adjusted in the mobile breakpoint will affect other breakpoints.
(hot tip…use advanced CSS grids instead of cells)
As a long time Wix user I still never used the mobile app for any edits, so cant comment. I’ve always had a PC/Laptop near me if clients require an urgent change.
I find if I restart the editor it will fix any lag that was happening. It hasnt ever been so bad that a dealine is missed or lost money over it, but that may be the way I schedule my workload. Any encountered bug I have reported, and usually find a way around it.
Sharing experiences is great for the community to learn and even adapt to new ways of using the platform. I encourage you to view some additional recourses/tutorial or even complete a course to become more familiar with the Studio editor. Once you get a handle on it you wont look back.
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Thanks for adding all these tips @Dan_Suhr!
I’ll also add that Studio may not be the best fit for everyone - if the Wix editor better suits your needs, that’s okay too (it’s sticking around and not going anywhere).
The editors serve different needs, Wix editor is best suited to self creators, while Studio is built with and caters towards the needs of agencies, freelancers and enterprise.
That said, I’d highly recommend taking a look at the Wix Studio Essentials course -https://www.wix.com/studio/academy/courses/wix-studio-essentials-course - it covers everything you’d need to get started with Studio. (And explains some of the things you’re experiencing, such as how cascading rules work etc)
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