What is the Framer CMS?
Official Academy primer: treat collections like a filing cabinet for structured content, then let Framer generate pages from that model.
Why we picked it
This is the cleanest official starting point. In a few minutes it establishes the mental model every later CMS pattern depends on — collections as structured storage, not hand-built pages — without burying you in field types yet.
What you’ll learn
- What a CMS collection is and why Framer uses that model
- How structured content replaces hard-coded page content
- Where CMS sits in a typical Framer project workflow
- What to learn next once the mental model clicks
Who it’s for
Absolute beginners who have opened Framer but have not built a CMS-driven site yet.
Open this video at the source
framer.com/academy
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Get Started with the Framer CMS
Official Academy course packing the CMS mental model, collections, detail pages, and collection lists into one beginner path.