Push articles into your Webflow CMS

Webflow publishing from WritingTools writes a CMS item. It does not open the Designer, change a static page, or edit a component. You need a site API token that can read and write CMS content, a collection that is meant to hold articles, and a field that stores the article HTML. Meta description and image fields are optional.

When the collection has fields named Post Body, Post Summary, and Main Image, those are selected for you. If your collection uses different names, pick the fields on the connection. A wrong HTML field is the usual reason an item shows up empty in the designer even though the API said it was created.

A blog collection and a changelog collection are two connections, even on the same site. The editor asks which connection to use, so the article lands in the collection you mapped. If you add a field later, edit the connection and map it. You do not need to disconnect the site.

Webflow is a poor fit when the page is a designed landing page with many bound elements and no rich-text field for the body. Use it when the collection is actually an article: a name, a slug, a body, and maybe a summary and an image.

Creating the item and publishing the Webflow site are not always the same click. Some projects keep CMS items in a staged state until someone publishes the site in Webflow. If the article is in the CMS and still missing on the live domain, check that site publish, not the WritingTools connection. The connection did its job when the item is in the collection with the right fields filled.

Slugs come from the title unless your collection generates them another way. Read the slug before the item is public. A title with punctuation can produce a slug you would not have chosen. Reference fields, such as an author or a category that points at another collection, are not filled by guessing. If the collection requires a reference, set it in Webflow on the draft item before you publish.

Use a draft item the first time you map a new collection. Open it in the CMS, confirm the rich text kept headings and links, and confirm the image landed in the image field rather than as a URL inside the body. Then you know the mapping. Later articles can go out as published once that mapping has been right once. If a required field is still empty, Webflow will reject the item or store it as a draft you cannot publish. The error is about that field, not about the WritingTools login. Fill the field in the mapping or in Webflow, then send the article again.