I’m looking for a bit of help with my CMS fields and collection list, specifically a collection list on my homepage which shows different projects.
My website is an online portfolio that shows certain projects I’ve worked on, with a homepage to show ‘highlight’ projects. I’d like to be able to change the projects I show in this ‘highligh projects’ list as time goes by, but the option to do so seems hidden to me.
Whilst trying to specify the project I’d like to be shown in the list, the only option is ‘current project’, and navigating any options within my CMS collection seems to do nothing
Hopefully someone may be able to point me in the right direction as a webflow newbie!
Set up a Boolean field in your Projects collection (e.g. “Highlight”) and filter the homepage Collection List to only show items where Highlight is checked. That way you can toggle projects in or out anytime without editing the layout.
You can usually find the relevant tutorials on this in Webflow University. If you want to choose the items and not have it as dynamic, you could see this guide on curating the collection list. You can test this out in a copy of the highlighted projects before applying it to the actual highlighted projects section.
But I am guessing you might want to keep changing the highlighted projects overtime, so to add-on to the above message, you can take a look at this doc which shares how to show featured items from the CMS and this blog if you want some visual reference step-by-step. Hope this helps.
Currently you have it limited to 4 items [1], and sorted oldest to newest [2], which will hide newer items. You probably want newer items at top, and I would not use the Created On field, those systems fields aren’t useful publishing controls. Create your own Date field, and sort on that instead.
You can also change [3] to Selected which lets you create a curated list of the exact items you want in the exact order you want.
