CMS collections URL structure

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I started out planning to have only a few pages of information on my site. Since then my plan has changed and I am turning the site into a hub to include pages about my companies, books, articles, podcast episodes, and guest profiles. So I’ve added CMS and want to move the few existing pages I have into collections so I can scale from there.

I need some guidance on the best way for me to organize the collections.
My main question right now is about grouping podcast episodes into folders by year.

Here’s what I currently have:

(Folder)/(Folder)

/content/nick-berry-podcast

Pages:
(Podcast Home) /content/nick-berry-podcast/about-business-owners-journey-podcast
(Episode page) /content/nick-berry-podcast/2024/leadership-opportunities-and-intentions-episode
(Episode page) /content/nick-berry-podcast/2024/making-business-culture-and-core-values-sticky
(Episode page) /content/nick-berry-podcast/2024/a-podcast-episode-entirely-about-nick-berry-business-and-life

My plan is to move the episode pages into the CMS.
What’s the best way for me to add the year into the URL when doing that? (ie ‘/content/nick-berry-podcast/2024/leadership-opportunities-and-intentions-episode’)
Make the collection URL ‘/content/nick-berry-podcast/2024/’ and do a new collection each year? Or are years a separate collection?

Here is my public share link: [LINK]1
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Webflow doesn’t support content-driven semantic paths. Your only native option in a Webflow-hosted site is to manually create folders and collections to achieve your URL, but that means duplicating collections which is highly inefficient and limited to 20 total on the CMS plan.

For commercial sites that need this, I build this with a reverse proxy which rewrites your Webflow content into the path structure you want, updates the sitemap, fixes canonicals, redirects your original pages, etc.

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Ok thank you. I thought that might be the case. I’m going to get in touch with you about next steps and see if that’s right for me or if I need to go with MVP for now. Thanks!