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We've recently switched out of Wordpress to Webflow and hit upon 3 snags that soured my opinion of it, though now we're "done" on it these are less of a big dea

We've recently switched out of Wordpress to Webflow and hit upon 3 snags that soured my opinion of it, though now we're "done" on it these are less of a big deal but I'd still probably have just stuck with WP with a reimagined and cleaned up theme/ACF for custom data: * Only one person can edit code at a time - this caused us to have to split who was doing what and we even ended up losing work when someone overwrote someone elses changes https://wishlist.webflow.com/ideas/WEBFLOW-I-39 https://wishlist.webflow.com/ideas/WEBFLOW-I-39 (this goes back to 2017) * Tracking changes in VCS easily (https://wishlist.webflow.com/ideas/WEBFLOW-I-381 https://wishlist.webflow.com/ideas/WEBFLOW-I-381) another from 2017, we tried out flowgater though in the end have just settled for exporting the code as is and then just committing it by hand. * A max limit of 10k characters (edit - as pointed out in comment, that's per file, I think IIRC we had all our JS in one single place which is how we hit this our side) in site code (https://forum.webflow.com/t/embed-html-10-000-characters/44399 https://forum.webflow.com/t/embed-html-10-000-characters/443...) - this caught us on doing some embedding, we worked around it in the end and not a massive deal but still felt a little annoying having to work around it.

pembrook 5y ago
Webflow is definitely in need of more features (with their last funding round I bet you’ll see them soon). But even with those hiccups, you can just move so much faster inside Webflow to update or completely redesign a site than with Wordpress. For example, I work with a Saas company that has their designer throw together landing pages for competitor comparisons and integrations in like a day, and they change them weekly based on testing. You just can’t do that on Wordpress at that speed without making a mess with heavy plugins and bloat.
- obedm 5y ago
  You can do that with wordpress plus a site builder. There are sure builders that are as good as Webflow, but without losing WP power
bsenftner 5y ago
> A max limit of 10k characters in site code A brief investigation says it's 10K characters per file, but still how the hell does a web site enforce that? Sure seems arbitrary and silly.

pembrook 5y ago

Webflow is definitely in need of more features (with their last funding round I bet you’ll see them soon). But even with those hiccups, you can just move so much faster inside Webflow to update or completely redesign a site than with Wordpress. For example, I work with a Saas company that has their designer throw together landing pages for competitor comparisons and integrations in like a day, and they change them weekly based on testing. You just can’t do that on Wordpress at that speed without making a mess with heavy plugins and bloat.

obedm 5y ago
You can do that with wordpress plus a site builder. There are sure builders that are as good as Webflow, but without losing WP power

bsenftner 5y ago

> A max limit of 10k characters in site code A brief investigation says it's 10K characters per file, but still how the hell does a web site enforce that? Sure seems arbitrary and silly.