How Do I Add Videos to CMS Webflow?

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Adding videos to your CMS Webflow site is a great way to engage your audience and enhance the overall user experience. With Webflow’s intuitive interface, you can easily integrate videos into your website without any coding knowledge. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of adding videos to CMS Webflow step by step.

Create a Video Collection

The first step in adding videos to your CMS Webflow site is to create a Video Collection. A Video Collection allows you to organize and manage all your videos in one place.

To create a Video Collection, follow these steps:

  1. Step 1: Open your Webflow project and navigate to the CMS tab.
  2. Step 2: Click on “Collections” in the left sidebar.
  3. Step 3: Click on the “+ New Collection” button.
  4. Step 4: Name your collection (e.g., “Videos”) and click “Create Collection”.

You have now successfully created a Video Collection that will serve as the container for all your videos.

Add Fields to Your Video Collection

In order to add videos to your CMS Webflow site, you need to define specific fields for each video. These fields will hold important information about each video, such as title, description, thumbnail image, and video URL.

To add fields to your Video Collection, follow these steps:

  1. Step 1: Open your newly created Video Collection.
  2. Step 2: Click on the “+ Add Field” button.
  3. Step 3: Name your field (e., “Title”) and select the appropriate field type (e., text).
  4. Step 4: Repeat steps 2 and 3 for other fields like description, thumbnail image, and video URL.

By adding these fields to your Video Collection, you can easily manage and display videos on your CMS Webflow site.

Add Videos to Your Video Collection

Now that you have set up your Video Collection and defined the necessary fields, it’s time to add videos to your collection. Follow these steps:

  1. Step 1: Open your Video Collection.
  2. Step 2: Click on the “+ New Video” button.
  3. Step 3: Fill in the required information for each field (e., title, description, thumbnail image, video URL).

You can repeat Step 2 and Step 3 to add multiple videos to your collection.

Create a Dynamic List

A Dynamic List is a powerful feature in Webflow that allows you to display dynamic content from your CMS collections. In this case, we will use a Dynamic List to display the videos from our Video Collection on our website.

To create a Dynamic List for your videos, follow these steps:

  1. Step 1: Open the page where you want to display your videos.
  2. Step 2: Drag and drop a “Collection List” element onto the page.
  3. Step 3: In the settings panel on the right, select your Video Collection and choose the layout you prefer.
  4. Step 4: Customize the design of your Dynamic List using Webflow’s built-in styling options.

You have now successfully created a Dynamic List that will display your videos on your CMS Webflow site.

Wrap Up

In this tutorial, we have learned how to add videos to CMS Webflow. By following these steps, you can easily integrate videos into your website and provide an immersive experience for your users.

Remember to organize your videos in a Video Collection, define fields for each video, add videos to the collection, and create a Dynamic List to display them on your site. With Webflow’s intuitive interface and powerful CMS features, you can take your website to the next level with engaging video content.