When will Wix sites become responsive?
We know this is an Editor X feature, but Responsive Sites are an industry standard and there is no excuse for Wix not to have this as well. We’ve been told ‘its in the works’ for years now. WordPress has had Responsive Sites since 2014, and Wix has so many great features, but it’s being put behind by this factor.
New features are constantly being released, and recently there was the webinar of new updates coming to the Wix Editor. Still, no Responsive Sites.
I know I’m not the only one asking for this, but this needs to come pretty soon to the Classic Editor, otherwise Wix will fall behind even more on simple, basic industry standards.
https://www.wix.app/events/3cdc5f9e-029c-4e4d-8bc6-da2cb1cac486/5f066576-c3b2-464c-9f9d-7b70cdd6f70e/details?d=https://www.wix.com/eduardog850/partnerscommunity/event-details/exclusive-preview-introducing-new-wix-editor-features
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Yes. We need the Wix editor add more feature to design in tablet, mobile response.
Hi
On the standard Wix editor you can make all websites webresponsive on tablets, smartphones and laptops. All you need to do is master the strip technique and respect the “dotted” areas.
We have no problems.
I made a comment about this here on the announcement post for the new features. As I said in that post, I don’t think classic will be around much longer. They made it clear with Editor X that full responsive features won’t be coming to Classic so eventually Editor X has to take the throne when it gets the full feature set of Classic.
Thats not entirely true. While you can achieve a better result using strips and staying in the grid, it only goes so far. No matter what you do, if you resize your screen the elements will never adjust properly and eventually the layout will break. You don’t see Classic sites switching between Desktop, Tablet and Mobile automatically.
The other big issue is someone can have the exact same size screen as you but if you have a higher resolution and they have a lower resolution screen, and you both load the site on desktop view, your views will be different. Having a fully responsive site means even a slight change in resolution or pixel size wont stop someone from properly viewing your site. On classic this is not the case.
You also run into the problem of not being able to fully utilize the entire screen because of the grid lines. Fully responsive sites like Editor X, WordPress, Shopify, etc. don’t have this constraint.
@cstevens I agree. Thanks for linking your comment, its a shame that Wix, along with its incredible features that outweigh other CMS making it one of a kind, this simple feature of sites being responsive is making Wix fall behind massively in the industry, therefore leaving people to think its not going to catch up and having to resort to other options, WordPress, Joomla, or Squarespace is the biggest competitor to Wix honestly.
It would be a shame to see Classic go, but adding responsive sites as a feature needs to happen, it wouldn’t be much effort to add it.
@aviyas @eduardog
Well it wouldn’t take much to add tablet and automatic switching between views but full responsiveness where elements move and change based on screen size would be a massive rewrite. When they released Editor X with those features I was actually pretty disappointed because like you said, they already had an incredibly powerful tool but they decided to make a new one and add the much needed responsive feature to that instead. It was more laziness or a money grab than anything. Rewriting classic would have been a huge project and a massive pain for their teams but I think it would have been better than Editor X.
Editor X is so barebones right now it doesn’t even have a full width image slider.
I agree. Editor X is meant to be the ‘premium’ version of the Classic Editor. I think instead of releasing a whole new editor, they shouldve definitely rewritten Classic. It has all the features that make it stand out from other CMS‘, but the fact it isn’t responsive like I said is making it lack a basic, simple industry standard.
They aren’t responding to anybody with questions about this and the last we heard was, ‘It’s in the works!’ which is completely useless.
It might be a lot of work, but it would be worth it, if they want to stay in the game. And if they close Classic Editor, and move everyone to Editor X, they’ll lose a hell ton of customers as it’s plenty overpriced for what it is already. I could pay for a years of WordPress hosting and Elementor Pro for less than it costs.
It’s ridiculous that they can’t be bothered with this.
Yeah you are definitely right. I think the pricing needs to come down a bit but honestly not by too much. We use Divi and Wordpress but there are tons of other costs. Email marketing, speed optimization, other premium plugins, etc. Wix does all the speed optimization for you with minifying code, CDN, caching, etc. then you throw in Ascend for email marketing and automations and it’s pretty powerful for the cost of it all.
I ask my partner manager these questions probably every month and never get a good response. Wix keeps focusing on small business style improvements but they say they want large enterprises. Truthfully I don’t think they know what direction they want to go in because they are going in a million different ones rather than focusing on one or a few.
I’ll check it out. I primary used Wix because of the reasons you said, it’s quality for the price, and having it do most of the hard work for you. They need to catch up though, if they want to keep their client base.
Like you said they need to have a simple, focused target. Wix right now are targeting large enterprises but it seems by the usability of it that agencies like ourselves can’t use it for reasons like this. I don’t remember a client that I’ve had who hasn’t asked me why it’s not responsive and I’ve never really had a good reason to back it up. They need to catch up!
Whats your email?
Yeah I have similar pain points. My email is cstevens@sugarfreedesigns.com