02/03/2026

Migrating from Legacy Editor to Client Seats (+ issue list & suggestions)

CMS
Legacy Editor
Site Settings

Firstly, excited to see that Client Seats are finally here 🥳, which means we can start migrating Legacy Client accounts to either the Content Editor or Marketer roles. Good news.

I also appreciate that this has just been released, so there will be some gremlins to resolve in the short term.

In a nutshell, I’ve started playing with Client Seats and have found a few potential issues/concerns, which I’ll list below.

Issues:

  • A Content Editor can currently access and edit project settings (equivalent permissions to the Marketer role). I assume this is a bug.

  • Marketer roles have too much access/visibility of site settings and information, such as Shared Workspace templates, Subdomain Indexing & Publishing, Webflow Cloud, Clone of, Folder ID, etc.

  • Marketers can rename components, not ideal.

  • Marketers can create new collections. Is that intentional?

Requests:

  • Give the Marketer role access to 301 redirects.
    Would make working with SEO agencies a lot easier.

  • Give Content Editors the ability to edit component properties.
    Such as selecting collection items in a collection listing component

  • Option to lock down SEO and Schema settings on collection templates and static pages.
    Sometimes, clients don’t understand dynamic content tags and manually overwrite them.

  • Ability for Content Editors & Marketers to pin open the left-hand page nav menu, for easier page navigation.

  • For collection list content on static pages that can’t be directly edited on the page by a Content Editor, add a hover hint to advise that the content needs to be edited via the CMS screen.

  • Content Editors can currently import/export collection item content; make this an optional permission.

  • The ability to hide certain components from Marketer roles.

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02/03/2026
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