How do I publish articles straight to my Framer CMS?

Connect your Framer project

Open Settings → Connect your website → Hosted publishing in your project and find Framer.

1. Open the project in Framer and copy the address from your browser. It looks like https://framer.com/projects/Your-Site--a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j0.
2. In the project open Site settings → API keys, create a key and copy it.
3. Paste both and press Connect Framer. SEOmise checks them with Framer first.

The key is kept encrypted and never shown again (only its last four characters). Withdraw it in Framer, or press Disconnect here, and it stops at once. Only owners and admins (and anyone with "publish changes") can connect or disconnect.

If Framer shows Beta, it is not switched on for SEOmise yet: press Ask for early access and we will e-mail you when it is.

Choose where articles go

SEOmise picks the first collection with a formatted text field and guesses its fields by name. Press Check the connection to change them:

• Collection: the CMS collection articles become items of (collections a plugin fills are not offered: Framer does not let apps add to them).
• A field for each part of the article: Title (a text field) and Article text (a formatted text field) are needed; Excerpt, Cover picture (an image field), SEO title, SEO description and Date are optional. Only fields of the right kind are offered, and each field holds one part.
• Address of the collection's pages: the path you gave the collection's page in Framer, for example /blog. SEOmise uses it to find the article on your live site.

If the collection has a required field SEOmise does not fill, the screen names it: choose it for one of the parts, or make it optional in Framer.

Send an article

Open the article. Publish straight to Framer offers:

• As a draft: the item is a draft in your CMS and is left out when the site is published.
• Added to your Framer CMS (owners and admins): the item is ready, and you publish the site in Framer when you are ready. If SEOmise publishes Framer sites for you, this option reads Published now instead.

Tick I have read it and press Send to Framer. The article's text keeps its headings, paragraphs, lists, quotes and links; pictures from your media library are uploaded to your Framer project with it (up to the size SEOmise allows per article; the rest are listed so you can add them in Framer). The brand voice the article was written in stays as it is.

Each article goes to Framer once. An item with the same address in the collection is updated rather than copied. If Framer stops answering after the article was sent, check the collection in Framer first; if it is not there, press I checked: it is not there. Send again.

Once the site is published, say where the article went live under the steps: SEOmise opens the address and counts it as published when the title and opening text are there.

When something changed

• "Framer did not accept the API key": the key was withdrawn or is wrong. Make a new one in Framer and connect again.
• "The collection was changed in Framer": a chosen field was removed or changed kind. Press Check the connection and choose the fields again.
• "Framer was busy": SEOmise already tried again a few times. Try again in a few minutes.

What is not sent

• Local pages from the Local Page Factory: Framer's CMS holds articles, not designed pages, so pages come with the steps to add them in Framer.
• Taking an item off: remove it in Framer's CMS and publish the site, then press I took it off and SEOmise checks the address no longer shows it.