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Connect Webflow

SiteSeed adds each article as an item in your Webflow CMS blog collection. It goes live or waits as a draft, as you choose in step 4. You need one thing from Webflow: a site API token.

Before you start

You are an admin of the Webflow site.
The site has a CMS collection for blog posts, with a Rich text field for the article.
Any field in that collection that is required, and that SiteSeed does not fill (such as an author or a category), is made optional in Webflow.

SiteSeed fills the name, the slug and the Rich text body. When your collection has fields for them, it also fills the summary, the cover images, the post date, the page title and the meta description. It finds those fields by their names.

1. Make a site API token in Webflow

In Webflow, open Site settings, then Apps & integrations, and scroll to API access.
Generate an API token. Give it read and write access to CMS and read access to Sites. SiteSeed needs nothing else.
Copy the token.

2. Connect it in SiteSeed

In SiteSeed, open your site, then the Your website tab. Under How do we reach your site?, pick Webflow.
Turn on Publish to Webflow.
Site API token: paste the token.
Site ID (optional): leave it blank. A site token belongs to one site.
Blog collection (optional): leave it blank, unless your site has several collections that look like a blog. Then enter the slug or ID of the one for articles, like blog-posts.
Press Connect Webflow.

When you connect, SiteSeed checks the token with Webflow, finds your blog collection and its fields, and tells you which collection it will publish to. A wrong token is refused right away, not at the first article.

3. Test the connection

Press Test connection. SiteSeed reads your site and the collection with the saved token. It does not create or change any item. Green with the site and collection names means it works.

The test always uses what is saved. If you changed a field, press Save Webflow connection first.

4. Choose what happens to new articles

Under the connection, When an article is written has three choices. You can change it at any time. It applies from the next article on.

Publish every article (the default): Articles go live automatically as soon as they are written and fact-checked. No approval needed.
Keep as a draft in SiteSeed: A new article goes live only when you read it and press Publish.
Send as a draft to my website: The article lands in Webflow as a draft. Publish it there, or here.

Articles written before you connected the site stay as drafts in SiteSeed. When the site is connected and set to Publish every article, the Your website tab offers one button to publish them.

If it doesn't work

What you see	What to do
Webflow refused access. The API token needs CMS read and write and Sites read.	Generate a new token with those permissions and paste it.
Webflow rejected the credentials. Check the token and save again.	The token is wrong or was deleted in Webflow. Make a new one and paste it.
Pick the collection for articles. Paste its ID or slug (found: …).	Your site has several collections. Enter the slug of your blog collection in Blog collection (optional) and connect again.
This Webflow site has no CMS collections. Create a blog collection first.	Add a CMS collection for blog posts in Webflow, then connect again.
The collection needs a Rich text field for the article body	Add a Rich text field to your blog collection in Webflow.
The collection requires fields SiteSeed cannot fill: … Make them optional in Webflow.	In Webflow, make the fields it names optional, then connect again.
This token can see several sites. Paste the Site ID of the one to publish to.	Use a site token (step 1), or enter the site’s ID in Site ID (optional).

The link SiteSeed shows for an article is your site’s address, then the collection slug, then the article’s slug. It uses your first custom domain, or your webflow.io address when you have none.

Still stuck?

Write to hello@siteseed.ai with your site’s address and the message SiteSeed shows.