Creating FAQs for an article

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Hi guys, is there a way to add structured data for FAQs, or do we just need to include them under the blog article as a heading for the question with a short paragraph for the answer? Does Webflow allow us to add a special element/block for FAQs, similar to the Yoast SEO plugin?

Thanks

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Two main options;

  • Use an embed and write the JSON, which has some limitations since the CMS embed fields you place will be HTML-encoded rather than JSON-encoded.
  • Use Microdata. Webflow is more compatible with custom attributes. Not as pretty. Not as convenient. Not as componentized. But probably more robust in native Webflow.
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THANKS Micheal,…is there any tutorial to do so? i do not know coding… :frowning:

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No coding involved just read Google’s docs on Microdata for the schemas you want.

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Thanks, just like this, if I create a component and a blog CMS collection, will I be able to achieve what I want? The issue is that I will be adding different FAQs under each article, and using this method, I cannot achieve that because if I make a change in one place, other articles will be changed as well. Also, can I add schema for this component?

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I think you just need to prototype it to understand how it’s built. Everything you’re describing can be done in native Webflow.

Components would not play much of a role here except perhaps as an individual FAQ item? Depends on how you engineer your FAQ UX.

I’d separate the Blog and FAQ collections, and then either multi-ref from blog to FAQs, or single-ref from FAQs to blogs. Depends on your needs and admin preferences.

Either way, the Microdata is just attributes bound to CMS fields, and elements arranged according to the spec.

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Hi @suny007 , did you manage to implement this functionality. To be able to add unique FAQs to different articles. Very please help, I have the same need now and I have spent a lot of time searching for a solution to this problem.

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Hey Ivan, the “easy” way is to create a separate FAQs collection, which as a ref to Article. You create your FAQs thee.

On your Article collection page you drop a collection list bound to that FAQs collection, and filtered to where “Article is current Article”.

A more complex way which requires some custom development, is to put all of the FAQ content into a rich text field, where the question is an H1. This would be bound to a rich text element, and your custom code would then parse that as a data-source to construct your FAQ elements.

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@Ivan6 …hello… i created the separate CMS collection for FAQs and bind with the blog CMS…almost same as @memetican is telling to do in the reply…