About Contexts, Features & Feature Sets

Core WFX concepts

WFX's feature set and navigation paradigm is based on a concept we call Contexts. All of our documentation is organized by these contexts, so it's good to have a basic understanding of how they work.

Project Contexts

In Webflow, a given project has a number of different contexts that you might interact with it in;

• Live site - your public, published site on a custom domain

• Staging site - your webflow.io staged site

• Content editor - your public site but in ?edit mode

• Designer - designer mode

• Read-only designer - a readonly link as shared by someone e.g. in the Webflow forums

• Site settings - your site-specific settings, within the dashboard, such as redirects, plan, and bandwidth use.

Non-Project Contexts

The Webflow ecosystem also has a number of non-project contexts;

• The Dashboard

• Forums, in particular the Discourse forum

• Webflow U

Contextual Feature Sets

WFX is designed to work across a huge range of contexts, and to provide features and improvements specific to each context.

• Features like the workspace custom naming will only work in the Dashboard.

• Sidebar views will change depending on the context you're in

• All navigation through a project will be driven by the context you're currently engaging with

The WFX sidepanel organizes features by feature set, and makes them accessible to contexts in which they can provide value.

Feature sets are typically represented as tabs, e.g. Info, Support, Tech, Resources, etc.

Features are capabilities that generally live within those tabs.

Here's a general breakdown of the features and feature sets we're working on.

Below,

Feature	Live Site	Staging	Designer	Site Settings	Dashboard
Info Tab
Navigation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Site Notes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Site System via GSheets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Support Tab	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
DNS diagnostics	Yes	-	-	Yes	-
Webflow support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Community	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Webflow Status	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SEO Tab	Yes	Yes	Yes		-
Site SEO	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
General SEO	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Tools Tab	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Figma etc.			Yes		-
Custom Favorites via GSheet	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Resources Tab
Icons, Lotties, etc.	-	-	Yes	-	-
AI?
News & Updates Tab	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
WFX Updates	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Webflow Updates	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SA5 Updates	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
WFU Updates	?	?	?	?	?