Page branching & approvals
Learn how to use page branching and design approvals to collaborate efficiently and ensure only reviewed changes reach your live site. In this lesson, we’ll walk through the full process—from creating a page branch, testing your changes in a branch staging environment, requesting a review of the branch, to merging your branch to the main site for publishing. Available on Enterprise plans.
Video transcript
Page branching in Webflow is a feature that lets you create a branch — essentially a copy — of an existing page that you can edit independently without affecting the original. Once you're happy with the changes, you can merge the branch back into the original page or keep them separate.
This is useful for testing significant layout or content changes, getting approval on a redesign before it goes live, or working on an updated version of a page in parallel with the current published version.
To create a branch, navigate to your Pages panel, find the page you want to branch, and use the branch option. Webflow will create a copy of that page that you can edit freely. The original page remains untouched and continues to be live on your site.
Branches can be reviewed and compared before merging. The approvals workflow in Webflow — available on certain plans — lets team members submit pages for review, and designated approvers can approve or request changes before anything is published. This is particularly useful for teams where designers or content editors make changes that need sign-off before going live.
Together, branching and approvals give teams more control over the publishing process — especially helpful for larger sites or organizations where changes need oversight before they reach a live audience.
