Sorry, but I'm not liking Wix Studio

[ed11]

I’m afraid I don’t like the convoluted layout - as soon as you open a new site page you’re assaulted by naming conventions (Columns, Rows, Cards, Cells, Layout, Position, etc.) and palettes everywhere. As a longtime Wix site user/builder I don’t feel like I’m your demographic - you’re targeting Studio at a different market space. I’m a seasoned graphic designer that wants the hassle of coding taken away, so I can concentrate on visuals; I don’t necessarily want to invest more time in learning or more complicated system. That’s fine if you want to target new users but it makes me feel uneasy when I’m constantly being pushed Studio as my go-to platform.

You’ll have to excuse my concerns - I’m a bi-product (victim) of the Adobe buy-outs and mergers and I’ve completely lost faith in corporate reassurances and promises.

[aaronmodeart]

Hello Pamela, everything is slow… and I took 4 hours for my header and my menu on the mobile version to feel something. and it’s still not the rendering I want. with the classic editor that it would have taken me 10 minutes . this editor is really frustrating. the breakpoint system is not intuitive, it’s hyper complicated and full of bugs to match are site on different versions

[Sash]

Its still not useable, honestly the basic wix editor is getting the same features as wix studio and the result is wix seems more responsive vs studio, with way less work.

[Stacy_Greer]

I’m trying to update my site to a whole new template and look and studio is awful. I’ve been using Wix for many years and I hate this stupid thing. You can’t change background colors on cells and stuff and it’s just super non-user friendly, IMO.

We can no longer switch back to the previous editor and now I’m likely looking for elsewhere to do my website which I really hate because I’ve loved Wix for a long time.

Wix, please make it go away. This thing s*cks really badly!

[noahlovell]

Answered here - I hate Wix Studio! - #2 by noahlovell

[ed11]

@noahlovell Ok, this is very annoying. I’ve just been reviewing a client’s site that they want to refresh in Wix Editor and I have decided to build a new site so that it doesn’t interfere with the existing pages. When I select ‘Create New Site’ it pushes Wix Studio to me before Editor. That shouldn’t happen if I’m in my existing Editor dashboard and it seems a little underhanded in the way it’s prioritising Studio and suggesting I switch. I should be given the priority option to work in my existing platform, not one I don’t intend on using. These are business practices I would expect from Adobe, not yourselves.

[noahlovell]

Appreciate the feedback

Although you should have the option to build in the editor that fits your clients needs from this dropdown:

[ed11]

I don’t see the dropdown option, only a ‘Create New Site’ button and when you click to the next page it hides Wix Editor in the bottom left-hand corner:

[noahlovell]

I believe it changes to the dropdown after starting a Studio site or two But this is valuable feedback all the same

[ed11]

That was probably my attempt at trialling it

[David_Loveland]

After 10+ years on Wix, Im done with it. Wix Studio is awful. Truly awful. The layouts across the various viewing screen sizes attempts to auto correct but you are left tinkering with each screen size format ENDLESSLY and even then none of them quite look right. Ive built quite alot of sites on Wix but Im packing up and leaving.

[Sash]

I kept saying this, wix studio is too labour intensive for responsive design and basically you need to make 3 websites as a result. Its a terrible system vs competiors today.

should merge wix studio and vibe together would be a solution.

[ed11]

Hi @noahlovell

Is it possible to feed back to the teams that it would be good to give equal precedence to both platforms when selecting which one you want to work with?

There appears to be a tactic on driving us to use Studio (which I don’t want to use) and that’s clearly the focus on the way the initial selection page is set up (See my screenshot below). The Wix Editor option plainly has reduced prominence at the bottom left and looks like the poor relation (which it isn’t).

The first ‘Create Site’ page you click through to should clearly give us the option to select either Studio or Editor platforms, THEN give the option of creating the type site (Blank Canvas, Template or AI), not wedge the option you consider to be of least importance at the bottom of the page.

Not only is the current layout bad UX but these really feel like the sort of tactics that Adobe would use to force us to adopt a new working practice, and it’s really not sitting well for me with your brand, and hasn’t been since Studio was first introduced.

All the best

Eddie

[noahlovell]

Hey!

Always happy to share feedback with the teams

For additional context, and as mentioned earlier in the topic, this screen is only shown for the first few news sites after joining Wix Studio.

After you have a couple of sites in your workspace, the “Create New Site” becomes a dropdown. Additionally, we recently added both Studio and Wix Editor templates into the Workspace itself, as an additional starting point.

[ed11]

Thanks, Noah

I don’t see that option at all and I don’t think I can revert back since I trialled Studio?

I just have a basic button with no dropdown (top right). See below.

[Steve4]

I’ve spent the better part of the month to build a simple site, but I find the studio editor miserable to work with.

Don’t get me wrong, there are some nice things about it, but WOW is this thing buggy! I’ve spend more time angry this month than any month in the last year combined.

[WHAT I DO LIKE]
I really do like the ability to create custom databases, with indexing options ect – that’s fantastic! It works very well. The ability to input data to the databases AND/OR show the data from the databases (CMS collections) is fantastic, this one feature is very helpful, so thank you all for that!

[WHAT DRIVES ME NUTS]
There are memory leaks, so by the end of the day everything is so laggy you cant get anything done, or if you can get things done, it’s just as likely a random breakpoint gets added or some unwanted change that needs to be fixed.

There is no way to set the default measurement to something that doesn’t scale – I spend a large portion of my time fixing the “scaling” that happens because of measurement changes. I agree with SASH above; it’s not a simple matter to create a ‘responsive’ site.

In fact, there is not way to set site wide defaults for padding, breakpoints, etc. Padding must be done each time (yes, I can create an asset, but it takes just a long to click through the menu to get the asset placed as it does to add a blank one and reset the padding/margins etc).

Breakpoints can be set PER section??!
Somehow an addtional breakpoint got added to some of my pages, but not others… I had to go through every single page, every single SECTION on the page, and add the larger breakpoint so things would be consistent, otherwise portions of the page just dissapeared at certain sized. !!?

Setting site wide styles, then adding a paragraph or heading on the the page, the site styles don’t actually apply, you have to manually select the newly added heading/text, then manually apply the gives style (h1-h6, p1-3, ect).

The tooltips are constantly in the way; you have to mouse over things in just the right way or all the popovers and tooltips get in the way and prevent selecting the color or item/object needed.

Renaming layers (changing their IDs is usually a waste of time; it has to be done AT LEAST twice, and in many cases 3 or 4 times before the ID is set for the layer or object.

The app market (from wix, like wix donations is so broken you can spend 2 or 3 hours with support and get nothing accomplished other than “we’ll pass it on”).

Using a $w(“#objectID”) in the masterPage.js doesn’t work; that kind of selector in velo code only works if its placed on the page where that element lives (kinda defeats the purpose of a masterPage.js)

The UI the seems nice at first, but try building a menu with dropdowns and figuring out why the dropdowns aren’t showing up… check the overflow settings on the menu container, but that could take you half a day to get figured out.

I’ve easily spent at least 3x a much time chatting with ai, or support trying to get something created than actual time creating something.

CRM data can’t be updated via automations or triggers. I can’t merge my custom CMS data with the wix contact data; only fields like Name, Phone, and Email are available. For this to be a useable CRM/CMS collection, I need to have the ability to update the mailing address, tags, attach order history, etc, etc, etc.

[ashishmakwana]

I have created more than 140 websites on Wix in the last 10 years. And I must admit that Wix studio is horrible.

Being WordPress and React developer, I can understand your pain. Wix studio, Editor X both have their own rule and their own ecosystem while the entire world has revolves and evolves around basic fundamentals from html and css. Every new technology, React, WordPress, Next.js, Nuxt.js all follow the same CSS pattern as that is the basic. Yes, you evolve from there to provide options to build super responsive site but that does not mean that you need to make your editor super complex for that. Just trying to understand how Wix studio feature works gives you a migraine, and that is after you have watched 100s of their tutorials that tells you to built super responsive sections in minutes.

Rather than being an advanced CSS wrapper, Wix is trying to implement their own new language and I don’t have an issue with that but what is is lacking is their number of tutorials to explain how their system works in comparison to actual CSS. No detailed documentations also. When designing something in Wix studio, if you try to understand what CSS are being applied, you will get a headache thinking about it.

There are number of times where I have spent 3-4 hours just trying to design a section that I can easily design using simple CSS in 30 minutes.

You place elements in a section, set margins, docking, and padding. And it all looks good in their Editor view mode, but when you look at the site in laptop and desktop, it looks like a completely different website. You try to fix everything again but it keeps getting worse.

When you add a block level elements like heading and para, rather than taking the whole block as it suppose to, it takes only content width.

When you dock two items in a section to bottom and top, their placement varies huge when viewing in the editor vs real site. They say that it will scale but the scaling does not seem to be working properly and you end up with totally disaster result than the one you are trying to build.

You can’t set a max-width on container inside the section using advanced settings, why not??? It is the first thing that people do after adding a container inside a section.

Some of the rules are deliberately hidden, when you stack elements, it becomes a flexbox. But you have to figure it out rather than it is being specified. And on top of that, they don’t even have the same flexbox settings that you usually get.

Instead of Z index, they have this “hide” and “show” feature along with adjusting layer to bring on front and move to back, but in some cases that even is not working properly. When I wanted to keep an image to the front all the time and also dragging some portion of it on the next section by setting negative margins, the image still remains hidden.

I fail to understand why the editor does not have a simple to understand settings. Studio is created with the aim that any non-coder can easily design responsive websites but if people with coding experiences are also struggling to understand and build websites, how painful it can actually be for a non-coder.

[gishu]

Let me rephrase that.

I consider Wix Studio to be a very well-designed platform.

It allows designers and developers with a solid understanding of web design and responsive design principles to fully leverage their knowledge and experience. At the same time, it is designed in a way that enables people with less technical expertise to create websites that still meet a reasonable standard.

Wix has also gone through multiple iterations since the Editor X era, continuously refining the UI and overall experience to arrive at what Wix Studio is today. I have a great deal of respect for that design process and the thinking behind it.

In addition, Wix offers a broad ecosystem of services and business solutions, all within a pricing model that I believe provides excellent value. Taken as a whole, I think it is difficult to find another platform that offers such a strong balance of capability, integration, and cost-effectiveness.

Of course, if your primary goal is to work directly with HTML and CSS and maintain a more code-centric workflow, then a platform such as Webflow may be a better fit.

One thing I’ve noticed in Japan is that many of the users who describe Wix Studio behavior as a “bug” are often long-time Wix Editor users with limited experience in CSS, the box model, or responsive web design concepts.

In many cases, what appears to be a bug is actually the result of Wix Studio following modern web design principles and layout behavior.

[ashishmakwana]

I agree to your point somewhat. I do have solid understanding on CSS boxmodel and how grid and flexbox works. My complaint was not centered around the ability of Wix Studio; it is more about their complex vocabulary and intuitiveness.

Yes, you can create stunning websites in Wix Studio but not for all kind of designs. If you have evolved from HTML and CSS, then Wix studio interface should look like just another designing platform and not a platform that can create a headache understanding what is going on. Even if I don’t compare it with CSS, then as a first time user too, it should make sense of what is happening.

Your experience with Wix Studio might be different because you might never have to create the kind of design that can expose those issues with the platform. I have designed good websites on Wix studio too, but some websites have given me migraine. Studio is not a reliable platform when you are offering service to your clients as a web developer because a client can throw any design at you. And here is a million dollar question that I want to ask to Wix Studio creators; “Can your platform replicate a design of any website built using any other technology? Can it behave exactly the same way as that other website?” I think the answer is No.

One major issue I have with Wix Studio is how their visual live editor works. When you are designing a section for desktop, it should be proportional to a certain desktop or laptop size to give you an idea that this is how it looks on a certain laptop or desktop. But rather than that it gives you a width but the height remains flexible. Now you design a complex section where 5 elements needs to be positions relative to each other. You save the design as it is looking great in your visual editor. But when you check in a laptop or desktop, these elements does not behave as they should. You go back thinking that you must have done something wrong, you double check everything and it gets worse. Keep in mind that I am not talking about those overly used template style layouts as those are industry standards; I am talking about a complex to design layout that your client has seen in some other website that have built using solid HTML CSS rules, and he asks you to replicate that in Studio. Now you have to figure out what settings Studio gives for the same and then things starts to get really interesting. You try to design it using all the permutation and combination just to get annoyed and finally giving up. That is not the issue of anyone’s skill but a failure of a platform to at least keep some basic things correct.

You seem to be an experienced developer, look what happened with Editor X. Failed and crashed miserably. I was excited when they launched Editor X but after exploring it, I packed my things and never built a single website in Editor X. My hopes were high with Wix Studio as I thought that they will at least learn from that mistake, but it turned out to be a just a prettier version of Editor X with just few more tools.

[user1972]

I have to agree. July 2026. I have a Wix editor website, so I wanted to try the convert to Wix Studio website all for the purposes of being able to create, quickly, customer landing pages for my site.

• The conversion is…well, I don’t know what the point is really cause it doesn’t safe you any time cause you get a generic, mainly blank website.
• The Ai tool is, well, what’s the point really, I started it by asking it what it can do, and it gave me these 4 options of elements.
• The interface is rather stupid, cause one panel on the right covers a part of your website design so you have to hide it constantly to look at the design and then pop it out again to use it.
• I see no Ai tools for helping me create full pages.
• I mean editor isn’t great, but studio is worse.