03CMS architecture — the hard part.
The CMS layer nobody does properly. Multi-reference collections, category and tag architecture, related content, pagination, search, an author system, and structured data for SEO baked in. Plus a set of composed article layouts. This is the piece people botch on client work and then live with for three years.
Sells toAnyone building a content-heavy site for a client and dreading the CMS design.
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Articles, authors, categories and tags wired with the reference fields set up correctly the first time — including the filtered lists that depend on them.
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Collection lists filtered by shared category and tag references, with fallbacks so an article never renders an empty rail.
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Native Webflow search scoped to editorial collections, plus paginated indexes that keep long archives fast and crawlable.
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Article and author JSON-LD, canonical handling and Open Graph fields bound to CMS values, so SEO is a field not a retrofit.
Content graph
How articles, authors, categories and tags reference each other.
Article layouts
Four compositions: standard, long-read, interview, gallery.
Archive
Filtered, paginated index with category and tag surfaces.
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Editorial Engine
The content architecture people botch on client work and live with for three years.