Limitations & Advanced Concepts

Limitations

• Obviously, by design, you cannot edit a project using a read-only link. While you can make changes in the designer, none of those changes will save or apply to the actual project.
• Users cannot clone a project through the read-only link, to protect the project owner.
• Users cannot copy from a project they are viewing through the read-only link, to protect the project owner.
• Users cannot see Site-level settings, which includes;
• > Site-wide code
• > Hosting & SEO settings
• > Anything else in your Site-wide config

Advanced concepts

If you have a read-only link, you can see the project name just after /preview/, and therefore reconstruct the webflow.io staging link.

e.g. a read-only link of...

_{https://preview.webflow.com/preview/complex-cms-linking?preview=755541fa8701c2712d96fa8788fb29a3&pageId=636162b8f70e18ea3b9e0bd6&itemId=6361660ff3e6a50375d92e7a&workflow=preview}

You can see complex-cms-linking, and infer that the staging link will be;

https://complex-cms-linking.webflow.io

In some cases as a designer, it's advantageous to be able to make aggressive edits to your project to test a new idea without actually changing your project. Then once you've completed your proof-of-concept, you can make the actual changes you want in your real project file.