Nest Collection pages within folders for more URL control — plus more

<p id="">Now you can nest Collection pages within folders to optimize your SEO — and as a bonus, you can also duplicate Collection structures and hide all template pages for a given Collection from your sitemap.</p><p id="">Presented simply as a bulleted list, today’s release introduces three updates to the CMS:</p><ol id=""><li id=""><strong id="">Nest Collection pages within folders for more URL control. </strong><a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/structure-and-style-collection-pages#general>" id="">Publish your Collection items within a URL subdirectory</a> to optimize your SEO profile.</li><li id=""><strong id="">Prevent template pages for a given Collection from publishing.</strong> Not all your Collections should have published template pages — so now you can <a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/structure-and-style-collection-pages#publish-settings>" id="">disable publishing at a per-Collection level</a>.</li><li id=""><strong id="">Duplicate Collection structures.</strong> Quickly create Collections by <a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/webflow-collections-overview#how-to-duplicate-a-collection>" id="">duplicating the fields of an existing one</a> — instead of needing to rebuild each field one by one.</li></ol><h2 id="">Nest Collection pages within folders for more URL control</h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2048px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2048px"><div id=""><img src="<https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64f9399ca7d13575ff21a675/64f9399ca7d13575ff21d66f88c99271.png>" id="" width="auto" height="auto" loading="auto" alt="Serve Collection items at URL subdirectories for greater control when fine-tuning SEO."></div><figcaption id="">Serve Collection items at URL subdirectories for greater control when fine-tuning SEO.</figcaption></figure><p id="">Before today, all of your Collection pages needed to live only one level down from your root domain. By way of example, here’s how things have worked in the past:</p><ul id=""><li id="">your “Blog posts” Collection publishes items to <em id="">website.com/blog/example-post</em></li><li id="">your “Case studies” Collection publishes to <em id="">website.com/customers/example-case-study</em></li></ul><p id="">Now you can <a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/structure-and-style-collection-pages#general>" id="">set a parent folder in your Collection page settings</a> to serve those pages on a subdirectory URL like:</p><ul id=""><li id="">“Blog posts” can publish to <em id="">website.com/content/blog/example-post</em></li><li id=""><em id="">Similarly, your “Case studies” Collection can now be published to website.com/content/customers/example-case-study</em></li><li id="">You can even nest Collection pages <a href="<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/>" id="">multiple levels deep</a>, for example: <em id="">website.com/content/enterprise/blog/example-post</em></li></ul><p id="">This new level of control is particularly helpful when it comes to fine-tuning SEO.</p><h2 id="">Disable template page publishing for individual Collections</h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2048px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2048px"><div id=""><img src="<https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64f9399ca7d13575ff21a675/64f9399ca7d13575ff21d66da260104d.png>" id="" width="auto" height="auto" loading="auto" alt="Turn off publishing for a given Collection to remove its template pages from your sitemap."></div><figcaption id="">Turn off publishing for a given Collection to remove its template pages from your sitemap.</figcaption></figure><p id="">For every Collection you create, Webflow <a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/structure-and-style-collection-pages>" id="">generates a corresponding template page</a>. These template pages aren’t published to your sitemap unless you make changes to the blank template page to begin with — but before today, once you <em id="">had</em> made changes (however small those might be), those template pages would be live and indexed by search engines.</p><p id="">Now, to prevent those Collection pages from publishing at all, <a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/structure-and-style-collection-pages#publish-settings>" id="">simply toggle the switch in the Collection settings</a>.</p><h2 id="">Duplicate Collection structures to build faster</h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2048px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2048px"><div id=""><img src="<https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64f9399ca7d13575ff21a675/64f9399ca7d13575ff21d66e_d6ea139c.png>" id="" width="auto" height="auto" loading="auto"></div><figcaption id="">Duplicate an existing Collection structure to build out your content library a bit faster.</figcaption></figure><p id="">Finally, now you can <a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/webflow-collections-overview#how-to-duplicate-a-collection>" id="">duplicate an existing Collection structure</a> to build out your content library a bit faster. Simply open the settings for the Collection you want to duplicate, then hit the Duplicate Collection button at the top.&nbsp;</p><p id="">That’s it! We’re hoping these make your life just a bit easier and unlock new power for your builds in Webflow. Enjoy!</p>