Hello,
I have a site build with 90+ images in the asset library. Unfortunately, I set the compression really high on the exports. I’d like to replace them all with a better optimised batch but retain all the alt-tag data and names.
Is this possible? Without having to find and replace each one individually?
Thanks,
Will
Hi,
I’m in the same situation.
Thanks !
Webflow does not support overwriting an existing asset so you can only upload new assets and manually apply attributes as needed then delete the old. Oh joy what fun.
I did exactly that. Set up a new folder within the assets library and painstakingly replaced every image, one by one. Adding the alt-text as I plodded along.
It took a day.
I can recommend using tinyjpg to optimise your images First. Although a developer friend suggested WebP as the best way forward.
Maybe that’ll come to Webflow?
Anyway. It was entirely dull and annoying.
So there is an archived post from 2016! suggesting and also planning to implement the possibility of asset replacement in the asset library. Since this is the normal behaviour and saves a TON of work for some people… Is this not planned?
And again 1 year later… and nothing is done
Another year later… And we still can’t simply swap assets in Webflow? C’Mon Webflow!!!
This is crazy, I am surprised there are not more people complaining that you can’t just overwrite your images by uploading them into the same directory I have at least 100 images per week that I need to change out manually, very time consuming. Please bring in this functionality.
I agree with the basic premise- replace asset would be super valuable and would also make templates more usable.
But just commenting that if you’re updating your content that often, the CMS is likely a better choice for managing that content.