Wishlist item
Give more customization to blogs! You can tell a site was built on Wix by the blog alone, we should have full customization over the design of our blogs.
What current pain point are you facing?
Unable to customize the look and feel of my blog. I was playing around in Framer and grew frustrated with the fact that Wix is the only builder I’ve seen with the type of restrictions there are when it comes to our blogs.
Do you have a current workaround that you’re using?
None…
Describe the feature you need and how it would work. (Bonus points for mockups )
Here’s an example in Framer, you can customize the layout of the blog and more. You can do the same in Webflow I believe, we can only do so much in WIx.
Totally agree!! The only real workaround so far is to create your own dynamic page to look the way you want connected to the blog via CMS… but even then you have to connect the main blog body of the post to a Rich Content element and then that whole chunk of the page will still look sadly “default”, so it’s not a great way around it even if it’s way better than the unusably uncustomizable default “Baby’s First Blog” pages…
Also stuff like embedded elements are uncontrollable in blog posts and so they might look ok on bigger screen sizes but then on mobile will completely go outside of the blog element bounds with seemingly no way to temper it… I would have thought since Studio was somewhat of a fresh start they’d have replaced the entire blog from the ground up (and others like the members and stores and so on, I don’t use them generally so perhaps those are at least better?) entirely since it is so outdated at this point!
And even if you use the WIX Studio data management system (CMS), you won’t be able to secure your data or store more than 10,000 lines in the database. Overall, your blog posts will be very limited after a year.
Wix has changed its pricing plan without warning and has attacked developers and businesses by setting incompressible limits. If you want a high-performance site, you’ll have to pay more than $170!
Agreed about the terrible upcoming limiting but in this specific case I’m not sure that would be an issue? If you made your own Blog system from scratch via collection of course it’d face the dreaded new limits but surely just connecting the actual built in Wix blog or members or stores or events, any existing apps like that via CMS it wouldn’t suddenly limit them in any way in the editor and live site (unless they’re adding caps on all their apps too making them entirely useless to anyone really)?
Ok, there is actually a setting to show your App Collections and reference them and use them as datasets. PHEW! Why on earth would that setting be turned off as default?! It’s still a mess, but at least in theory everything should be the same as Editor X from what I can tell, so we can still reference and use App Collections on our site, so I don’t think the restrictions will affect them? It’d be really good to have this clarified!
Indeed, it would be nice if WIX could clarify the situation. We’ve been waiting several weeks for information on this subject, but they haven’t decided to explain their future update, so we still have to wait…
I just want to jump in here. The CMS limits aside (which I am following up with the team on), you can use the Wix Blogs backend in the dashboard and benefit from all those tools to create blog posts whilst creating your own frontend relying on the Collection created when using the Wix Blogs app.
The collections created by Wix Apps, like Blogs and Stores do not contribute to your CMS item quota.
Either way, as Anthony discovered, customising the blog page is planned
Just building my first Studio site, and having integrated the Blog app the main disappointment for me is that it’s the same old app as on Editor.
The page layout desperately needs improved features, including fully responsive layout; but the planned feature doesn’t look like it will resolve that.
The other main issue I’ve found is that the blog widget settings only have two break points, desktop and mobile, so not exactly a seamless integration with Studio, in fact very problematic to make it responsive across all screen sizes.
Thanks for that feedback. I do find it a bit hard to believe that your devs didn’t become aware of the blog integration limitations with Studio during testing.
I have already submitted a feature request, but TBH, I can’t remember the details of what I said, as I didn’t receive a copy of my request - which is something else for support to consider, as I can see no way of tracking what I’ve requested, so my requests disappear into a Wix black-hole!
@Splashweb This is definitely something we’re hoping to have in the future! If you had a choice, would you prefer receiving an email copy of your submitted feature requests, or a list of your submitted requests in the dashboard?
I am trying to actually switch to Wordpress because of this. Every workaround I come up with hits a different roadblock. I don’t know how anyone is using their blog as it lacks very basic tools and abilities. I mean, if you put a hashtag in an expandable list on a blog post you can click it but it will NOT return any post that has that hashtag in an expandable list! So the post you just clicked the hashtag in will not even return that post as a post with the hashtag lol. Oh, and customer support is like two teenagers in moms basement playing video games who have no idea hot to fix anything. I have run into so many issues that they are just blocking me from asking them about them.
Wix is just plain goofy but they spent a lot of money upfront to get millions using their system and now its to painful for many to rebuild elsewhere. it was a trap from the beginning. Companies today are all about making millions on going public and then just maintaining the product/service for residuals until it falls apart. No real service or growth is even expected or cared about because they made their money on going public. Pathetic
I was hoping to have full control but this will work for me. Some type of customization is better than what’s available now. My blog has been doing well and bring me a good amount of organic traffic, I just want to be able to customize it more. Hope that when we get our hands on it it works for you. They also made significant changes to the CMS limits which is great. I was about to switch to bubble but they made a change also to their data plans and it’s terrible plus they don’t offer a quarter of what wix offers.
Good to see some improvements, for sure, but if you’re building in Studio this isn’t going to help you much at all.
Wix don’t seem to appreciate how essential the blog app is to many users, and there’s no acknowledgment from them that the classic blog is a very poor fit for Studio, along with the widgets used to drive internal traffic to it. All of my attempts to raise this get met with the “we’ll forward that onto the team” and into the Wix black-hole it goes! - very frustrating trying to work with them, and all this talk of transparency just feels like marketing guff.
I completely agree with you. I use Wix a lot, and I find that there is a lack of customization. It would be really great if they completely revamped the WixBlog app, with a brand new algorithm that is much more modern and customizable. The same goes for customizing the product interfaces of an online store! And let’s not even talk about the Wix interface; it’s really not appealing, not even a dark mode. I think they should redesign the Wix interface with entirely new features, revisit old functionalities, and draw inspiration from other web editors like Framer. All of this for both Wix Studio and Wix! Thank you.
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